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  1. It looks as though I'm not the only person having this issue!

    I'm burning disks on my DVD+RW drive. They play back fine on there and on my DVDR 880 (and other DVD players for that matter). However, on my DVD ROM I get the message "Disk is not Formatted - Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows"

    This implies to me something is up with my DVD-ROM drive (which will happily play commercial DVDs and finalised DVD+Rs from my DVDR880, although not DVD+RWs without amended bitsetting) - can it be fixed though?!!!
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    Nope.

    It's usually a sign that you have an older DVDROM drive. That is it's 1st or 2nd generation technology.

    I have 2 DVDROM's. One is a newere 16x unit and rips at 2x but reads anything. The other is quite old and rips at 7x, but won't read DVDR/DVDRW (+ or -).
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  3. I suspected that may be the case, but why will it play DVD+Rs from my DVD recorder but not from my DVD-RW drive?!!!
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    Originally Posted by qprfact
    I'm burning disks on my DVD+RW drive.
    Please clarify.

    The discs in question that will not play in your computer are +RW's FROM a Philips machine(DVD Recorder)?
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  5. Sorry! The DVD-ROM drive will play finalised DVD+Rs from my Philips DVD recorder, as well as commercial DVDs. It will play DVD+RWs from my Philips if I apply the compatability bitsetting on my Philips machne first.

    It will not play DVD+Rs burned on my DVD+/-R drive (which is on the same PC), even if they are the same media as those burned on the Philips, etc. These disks do, however, play on the DVD+/-R drive itself and on my Philips.
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    The DVD-ROM drive will play finalised DVD+Rs from my Philips DVD recorder, as well as commercial DVDs. It will play DVD+RWs from my Philips if I apply the compatability bitsetting on my Philips machne first
    OK....That makes sense. That would be "protect" on my old Philips 985.
    I was thinking you had forgotten to "protect" or "make compatible" on the RW discs from the Philips.

    Yep....my quess would be that you have one of those FUNKY DVD-Rom drives that just wont recognise THAT disc setup.

    My Samsung Combo drive has trouble with protected +RW's from my Philips 985....sometimes. It hates the discs recorded in LP(3 hour) mode the most.
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