Newbie confused, unable 2 read dvd-roms ive burned, pls help

[Stu_uk_wba]

Hi folks,

I bought a dvd rw/r drive last night, it is a Ricoh MP5420a one.

I have created 5 dvd-roms using nero and once using Intervideo Disc Master. I'm using PC Line dvd+r discs.

On all occasions i get the message that the burn was done successfully and i can see if i look underneath the media that it has deffinately been burned to the disc.

However

When i go into 'my computer' and double click on my DVD RW/R drive with my newly burned dvd-rom in it, it loads up but there is nothing in there???????????????


If i right click on the drive and click on properties it says there is
0 used space and 0 free space.

If i use disc info in nero it says

Sessions 1
Tracks 1

- DVD Session
- Session 1 [1MB]
- Track 01: 0 2KB Data [mode 1]


I am using windows XP

I'm not sure if there is any more info you'll need to help me but if there is let me know i'll get it.

Please help me if you can though cause this is doing my head in, lol


many, many, many, many thanx in advance


STU -------------------------------------------------------------------

[bottle-necked]

Stu, I probably can't help much from here but I can give you a few ideas, maybe, I hope might help.

Get you a RW disk and do your tests with it. After you're sure everything is ok, then break out the R's. Your RW should be of high quality. The RW can be erased over 1000 times, those R's are a '1 time deal' and throw away. ok.

The problem might be either your media, drive, or user/program error. I can't tell from here, but that '1MB' session information doesn't look very good.

Installing a drive may require you to set the drives jumper setting properly. If you had a CD-ROM drive and added this new drive below it, then you should of set the jumpers setting on your CD-Rom drive and also on this new drive. I've seen people just 'stick'em in' without setting these jumpers and some have had some very unexplainable problems. If this is the case just reply and I'll try to help ya get it right. ok

Will the DVD burner burn a CD-RW? Try one on a simple burn or disk copy to see.

If you're new to burning disks maybe it's something you're doing wrong. Usually a bad disk (one that has not been written correctly) will not or will not very easily display with Explorer. I've see bad disks lock up the computer making a reset necessary to gain back control.

That session information says you only put 2k of data on the disk. Do this. Use a DVDRW disk, put it in the drive. Start your burning program and make sure your DVD burner is selected as recording device. Click "Data" or "Create Data DVD Disk". Drag and Drop a bunch of files into your burners window (slowly). Your software will have a capacity viewer showing you how full this DVD project disk is. As you add files watch the slider. Get some files in there then click "BURN". During the process watch the progress of the burn. Don't let your system go on screensaver or power mode. When the burn is done the disk will eject and the program will say finished. Leave the program running and re insert the disk. Use the programs "disk properties" option and check the properties of that disk. Tell me what it said. ok.

Good luck

[bottle-necked]

lol

[gll99]

1) Were these data or video discs?
2) how large are the files (how many mb or gigs total per disc) do you think you wrote?
3) how long did it take to burn a disc?
4) what speed did Nero say you were burning at?
5) did you check the compatibility list to see if those discs work with your burner.

Look at the files in the "windows explorer" instead
If they are DVD video then try to play them by loading the files from your player's file manager.

Why did you burn 4 more discs after the 1st one. I could understand 1 more but 4?

I agree that in future, if you have DVD/RW switch to those to save $.