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July 4th, 2009 20:00
NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A
Hi there, I'm trying to burn dvds using the Fujifilm 50-pack DVD+R which I have for over five years. Last year I was successful in burning 8 out of the 11dvds. The other 3 seemed to have burned successfully but the dvd player did not recognize the disc, it read "No disc in drive".
A few days ago I tried again and this time I was successful in burning 1 out of the 15 dvds. The other 14 recorded only a small amount of film (some 140MB others 1400MB) of the complete 4GB video.
At one point the dvd light went out and the door wouldn't open. We contacted DELL technical support and we got the dvd drive to work.
I'm not sure if the problem is with the dvd player (NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A) or the Fujifilm discs.
Any suggestions?
P.S. I will buy new dvds next week, DELL tech support suggested to get DVD-+RW
osprey4
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July 5th, 2009 06:00
Hi, Mikashu:
Dell tech support has offered bad advice (once again). A DVD+RW disc is less reliable than DVD+R. I suggest you do not buy +RW discs.
Your Fujifilm discs could be manufactured by any number of companies, some more reliable than others. I would like you to get the program listed below in my signature called DVD Identifier, so you can determine who made your blank discs. Please post back with that information.
Mikashu
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July 5th, 2009 08:00
Hello, thank you for your reply. I ran the DVD Identifier as you suggested, see below:
since I posted I updated the driver but no help there either... is there a difference between downloading a driver or a firmware?
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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD+R:RICOHJPN-R00-001]
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Disc & Book Type : [DVD+R] - [DVD-ROM]
Manufacturer Name : [Ricoh Co. Ltd.]
Manufacturer ID : [RICOHJPN]
Media Type ID : [R00]
Product Revision : [001]
Blank Disc Capacity : [Not Supported By Method 2]
Recording Speeds : [1x-2.4x]
[Method 2 Might Not Always Detect All Speeds]
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[ DVD Identifier V5.2.0 - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ]
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osprey4
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July 5th, 2009 12:00
Ok, those discs should be fine. Ricoh makes good quality media.
The driver is a generic XP driver, same as is used for all DVD drives. So what you downloaded was probably firmware. Did you run the update successfully?