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February 18th, 2008 07:00
Copying a DVD
While trying to copy a DVD I got the following message:-
"Your recording device does not support writing to DVD media. This option is not available with your current recorder".
My drive is called 'DVD/CD-RW DriveE. What does the above message mean?
Regards chooky.
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osprey4
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February 18th, 2008 09:00
Why don't you look up the model of your drive in device manager and post that, so I know what you have.
tobiasplayer
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February 18th, 2008 11:00
It would appear on the little information given that you have a DVD read only. You have the ability to burn CDR's but not DVD's. You will have to upgrade your system to DVD burner. They also have the ability to burn CDR's as well. They are cheap and normally run around 35 dollars from most online suppliers.
osprey4
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February 18th, 2008 12:00
Agree. "It would appear" that way. But I've run into situations where people thought they had a combo drive only to find they actually did have a DVD burner. Just yesterday, in fact.
osprey4
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February 18th, 2008 22:00
Ok, that's what we suspected. Your drive can read and write CDs, but it can only read, not burn, DVDs. You would need to add a DVD burner in order to burn DVDs. What you need is an IDE drive, not SATA. For example, this Philips drive should work fine. As you can see, they're not real expensive and very easy to install.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
chooky
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February 18th, 2008 22:00
Hi Osprey, Thanks for your comments. My Device Manager tells me the CD/DVD drive is as follows:- SONY CDRWDVD CRX310EE. Does this help?
Regards chooky.
chooky
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February 20th, 2008 18:00
Hi Osprey,
Thanks for your help, I will let you know how I get on.
Regards chooky