Disk Not Recognized Error

[mnarayan]

My Toshiba SD3109 fails to recognize a VCD (on a CDRW disk) I created using Nero (and Dazzle for creating the mpeg file). The DVD player plays VCDs and is supposedly CDRW compatible.

Any thoughts?

[vitualis]

Does it say that it can play CD-R/W media anywhere in your owner's manual?

If not, then your DVD player was not designed to play CD-R/W media.

You will have to experiment with different brands of CD-R/W media to find one that works. In these situations, CD-RW tends to work better than CD-R.

Regards.

[BerrantRyke]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdlist/494.html

From the user comments, you are gonna have problems getting it to recognize your CD-R's. But CD-RW (depends on brand) should do well. (again, going off users comments)

[rajan_bhirud]

Yes. I have come across similar problems recently. I have IBM Laptop 380Z which has 24 speed Toshiba drive and Windows ME. It can not recognize some VCD's that play perfectly all right on a junk 4 year old PC that has 4 speed Micron CD ROM drive. I read on the website that VCD's can be played in any CD ROM drive. I think lot depend on how the VCD was burnt and how Windows is setup on the machine that plays it. Please check all .vxd files in your \windows\system\iosubsys directory.

[vitualis]

Interesting as that is, it isn't relevant to this thread. The original poster was refering to playback problems on a stand-alone player.

Regards.