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05-Sep-2008, 01:55 AM #1
DVD Burner......
I have a HP Compaq 6515b laptop with a DVD drive and it has three things on it.

A big RW and under it it says DVD +R DL
Another says:
COMPACK DISK REWRITABLE ultra speed

and the third says:
DVD and under it it says RW/R

I'm having problems burning a data disc on a DVD +R DVD. Nero 7 said it wouldn't burn it, I downloaded something called FinalBurner and I started it when I went to bed last night and in the morning it froze at 42%...BUT it had burned everything.

Now I am trying it again, but when I pop in my DVD, My Computer tells me that the Total Size is 0 and the Total Free Space is 0, and that it's a CD Drive, not a DVD drive.....do I need to install some drivers or something?

It does show the who 702mb for my normal CD, but nothing for my DVDs.

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05-Sep-2008, 06:53 AM #2
Okay. Finalburner very often freezes while burning, it's very delicate about around anything. Second, my burner also recognizes some disks(mini-DVDs and something else, can't remember what) as 0/0 byte disks, but can still burn to them using a software (like finalburner), and I earlier had a burner that was recognized as a CD-drive(being a DVD burner).
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05-Sep-2008, 11:04 AM #3
Well on this, I let FinalBurner run and it froze at 792%, that's right, 792%, but still notthing on my DVD. I will try it again when I go to work and I'll see what happens when I get back.

So in My Computer, it my drive is only recognized as a CD drive and no longer a DVD driver.....is that cool?
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05-Sep-2008, 11:28 AM #4
No longer? So it used to? Then it's actually not cool. You could try removing any filters Nero might've created for your drive. Search the forum with "dvd filter remove" keywords.
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05-Sep-2008, 12:26 PM #5
I just tried to burn again and I thought I was filling it up the the DL mark, so I made sure it was enough for a single DVD and got the same error. Not enough room on disk. Now I DID uninstall Nero 7 as it just planed pissed me off, so you are saying that with that it recognized the DVD and without it, it doesn't?

Gotta jet to work, but will reinstall it tonight.

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05-Sep-2008, 06:51 PM #6
No, uninstalling Nero isn't enough if there are "filters" that have messed things up. I just remembered that removing them isn't actually going to help you. sorry.
I'm a little clueless of half the things you said in the last post... You won't need Nero for anything. About filling it up and trying to burn; the disks often have 2-5% less space than they're supposed to..
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