DVD+RW Works --- DVD+R does not work in standalones

[ardan]

Short Version:

I have a HP 200j DVD+R/+RW writer and when I write to DVD+RW I get about 95% sucess rate, when writing to DVD+R I get about 20% sucess rate.

My question is, Why would DVD+RW work and DVD+R not work...

Any Ideas for me to try.....

Long Version: (same problem)
I have HP 200j writer, Apex 1500 and Hitachi DV-PF2U Standalones.

Tried Multible media (memorex, fuji, maxwell) still same problem.
Tried writing with XCopy, Nero, and instantcopy still same problem.
(If I force Nero into UDF 1.02 it works great with the APEX but will not work with the Hitachi.)
I have made a good copy to a DVD+RW and then tried to copy it to a DVD+R and it still doesn't work (but about 20% do work, 80% does not)

HP have been NO help.....

This problem is driving me crazy, I have already wasted about a 20 DVD+R I hope someone has sloved this problem.

Thanks a lot for any sugestions.....

[margib]

I have the same drive and have had good success with +R. I haven't done a extensive test but I have tried a +R copy on 5 standalones and all but 1 (very inexpensive Panasonic) worked fine. I guess that percentage is not too high but it works on my player so I didn't think it was necessary to keep testing. I think if I continued testing at a store or something that most would work.

My drive was set correctly but you may want to make sure your HP is setting DVD+R to look like DVD-ROM. I believe one of the programs that came with it will tell you this but I don't remember the name. I would recommend going to http://dvdplusrw.org to download the bit setting utility there. It does the same thing and lets you change this if needed.

Good luck.

[goldmember1]

The latest version of Nero will let you change your book type to Dvd-rom. Use Dvd video tick ISO LEVEL 1 , tick ISO 9660 uncheck everything else & before burning tick DVD-ROM as book type. Your dvd+r should work.
:P

[ardan]

Thanks you your help.

I thank you, you got me on the right track to find a solution the problem was in the booktype. It seems that the HP DVD200j drive with a firmware of older that 1.51 may create a booktype of not necessary DVD-ROM or any other format, it would just create a bad disc.

This problem only occurs with DVD+R and not DVD+RW, hince the problem I was having. Funny when I contacted HP they didn't mention the firmware update to me, ah what customer service.

After 5 tries the firmware update finally took and I was able to write 2 sucessfull DVD+R's.

Thanks again,,,,,