DVD Drive wont recognise blank DVD's

[Wonky Tonka]

Anyone got any ideas on this one?

My DVD RW Drive (ASUS DRW-1814BL) will play DVD's and will burn CD-R's no problem. However, when trying to burn to a blank DVD, it doesn't recognise the media.

I've tried both + and - R discs, no change.

Checking out the drive with Nero InfoTool, it states that it is set up to read and write to all blank DVD's.

Tried to do a driver update, but Windows said I already had the latest one.


over to you guys........

 

[monobrow]

This may or may not help, but it can be down to brand of blank media. My DVDRW will do whatever I tell it on Verbatim discs. I gave it a Maxell to burn on and it kept complaining of power calibration error (I think??? It was a while ago)

 

[Wonky Tonka]

Thanks for that rapid reply Mono DT_Xtremez_28:

I thought that too, so I swapped my Tesco discs for some shiny Kodak ones, still the same.

 

[grumpyoldb]

I have the same problem with verbatim discs.
I've even tried to format them, but the option isn't available.

 

[monobrow]

Bit of googling gives up this...

Hi!

I had the same bad experience with my DVD writer. Afther wirting the first light scribe sisk it went bad. I've try tu update with the firmware but no change. I've unistalled Nero 7 and installed NERO 6.6.0.14d from my previous DVD writer. Now it works fine and I have no problem with lightscribe disks(DVD's and CD's).
I think this problems are from burning software not hardware.

I like one post on there though...
I did find one solution at another site.
"Take the unit out, and through it against the wall."

If only they learnt what a spell checker is for!!!

 

[grumpyoldb]

Nice one, mono.
I'll give it a try.


The software................................LOL!DT_Xtremez_31:

 

[Wonky Tonka]

Just tried to update the firmware from the ASUS website, still no joy.

Looking like another burner required?

 

[Comms_Lad]

Has it always been like this or only since you updated the drivers. If so try rolling the drivers back to an older version see if that works.

 

[Martin Blank]

Have you got more than one burning program installed?
A few years ago Nero had a conflict with another program which meant you had to install them in a certain order to make them work.
Produced similar results.