I'm currently having no success in getting my DVD ROM drive to recognise DVD-R discs. The drive is an LG GDR8161b with version 102 firmware (latest). It recognises and plays commercial DVD's (region 2 and Region 1) without a problem (it also handles data DVD's perfectly). However it won't play DVD-R's recorded on my Optorite D0203 writer.

I'm ripping and burning using the latest (October) version of Clone DVD and I have AnyDVD enabled to remove region protection. (I've tried disabling AnyDVD, and switching to safe mode). I'm playing using Power DVD 5, but the software isn't the problem as the drive just doesn't recognise that a disc is inserted.

The same DVD-R discs play in the Optorite and on my PS2.

Nero-info tells me that the drive should be able to read DVD-R (but not DVD+R) which is correct.

In using Win XP Pro SP1, and I don't currently have ASPI installed.

I'm stuck. Any ideas ???