DVD-r is not recognized in my dvd-rom drive

[tough joe]

Hi,

I hope this is the right forum, ive search around for a few days and I appolgize if im wrong. Anyway,

I bought a new 16x dvd-rom drive from Artec. www.artecusa.com. Not much tech support available online - so I sent them an email but im seeking help here too. Ive got several dozen dvd-r's that I must access, but when I put them into the drive - the drive thinks they're audio cd's. I seemed to have found a workaround but it only worked once. repeated ejecting and reinsterting the same disc). I dont want to keep doing that.

Any help is very appreciated.

Anthony

[MrSnake]

I haven't seen it with DVDR's, but if you have an old or crappy CDROM drive and an open-session disc it'll be displayed as audio disc in the drive.

You could also try your discs in another drive, so you know if it's your drive or not.

[dcsos]

Does your machine dual boot?
I ask because I once had a SCSI 6X DVD-ROM (Pioneer 606 player DVDROM computer drive) that did just what yours did under 98se, but would see the DVD-R's in the same drive when WIN XP was booted instead..
MAYBE there's a firmware update?
But reloading yer OS will fix the problem

[tough joe]

No this is not a dual boot. I tried the dvd-rs in another drive and they worked fine. I have contacted the manufacture and they advised to return the drive for exchange with a new one. So hopefully thats the answer.

[RAAGAAman]

Sounds like the drive is a dud since you have to eject it several times to get it to work. Definitely sounds like a disk recognition with the drive.
You might want to get a Pioneer or a Liteon drive. I have never heard of
Artec but the drive looks like a Cyberdrive model.

RG

[tough joe]

I am checking out the DVD r media I have on a few other pc's. If I get the save thing, then its the disks, if not, then i'll be returning the drives. I give an update soon.

[txpharoah]

Your discs may only have UDF file system, and not ISO, which is what Windows needs to access the data.

[tough joe]

It was the dvd-rs, something must have gone wrong during the writting process. Not sure what, out of 31 dvd-rs, 9 dont work. And all were burned the same way. Oh well. NExt time I'll test the completed burn disc before I trash any files on my pcs.