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lightscribe
im new at this lightscribe stuff, i thought u burn and flip the disc in the drive. when i do that nero spits the disc out and say put in a lightscribe disc.
So do i need certaind discs, what do i need to work it,.
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dvd-rw drive won't detect dvds
So, I recently acquired a dvd-rw drive from a friend, and it will NOT play or even detect a dvd. It is a Sony DW-D18A. It will dtect and play all other cd type media, just not dvds. It sits for a while trying to load, and it makes some noise, j...
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Pioneer 212 SATA probs
Hey,
I've just upgraded my system (details in my sig), and I bought a couple of new Pioneer SATA 212's.
Both work fine separately when I boot up, bios detects them fine. But when it comes to Windows, strange things start happening.
They both s...
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Vista Rocovery disk doesn't read...
I was thinking of doing a clean install because I have some serious video card driver issues. The problem is, my dvdrw drive won't read the recovery disk. I also have an old mce disk from my previous operating system, and that won't read eith...
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Combo drive wont open.
Hi, I am currently building a new PC, and tested the CD drive. It will not open, the cd drive led is red when i turn the PC on..
I plugged in the IDE cable, and the power cable.
Can anyone help me with this?
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DVD not showing up HELP!
hey
when i put a game dvd in my dvd rom nothing shows up in my computer. The dvd rom is working fine coz when i put a dvd movie in it works fine. the dvd works fine as wlel coz when i put it into my other computer it shows up and works but i...
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DVD Question
i have nero startSmart installed, and i'm ready for burning but my dvd-r and dvd+r dvd's won't work for some reason..
it keeps soming up please load writable disc,
What programs do i need to get them to work...
any suggestions would b...
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DVD + / - Don't show up!
Hey,
I have a Sony DVD Multi-recorder RW, it plays + and - or so it says on the box.
I want to write some game demos to a DVD as they won't fit on a CD, I have tried a + and a - DVD and neither show up, why is this, When I double click th...
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Problems with burning cds!
Hi! I just bought a new Dell Inspiron 1521. After buying songs on iTunes I wanted to burn a cd. The computer says that it's initializing but then it spits out the disk and says that it failed to burn the cd and that an uknown error occured (213...
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which software support burning 2 CD/DVDs simultaneously?
I installed two identical Sony DVD burners, one on each IDE channel.
When burning CD/DVDs, I used the Sonic RecordNow that came with
my new PC. It will only let me burn one disc at a time, after I choose
which burner to use.
I want t...
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Cant burn cd's,but dvds burn fine???
I've just noticed that my system will not burn cds,be it audio,data,etc...Ive tried different burning programs,nero,windows media player and it goes through the burning process as if it was burning,when it finishes and i verify burn, it give me...
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Dvd+ 4x
Tracy, hope that I have your email address in right and you weren't blocking me out on hotmail ha-ha
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Cd Cloner
I need software that can exactly copy a cd or a dvd. i would like it to be small, and be really simple. I only have one drive, its a cd/dvd+- Dual Layer burner. Thnx
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Just got a new dvd burner
I just bought a new dvd burner. there are no ide hooks up's just sata. there is a big one and a small hook up. my mother board does not have one of these. I bought a host sata card and cable. I put the card in and my computer recongnized it but...
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Dvd Backup Question..Help Needed
Hey guys.
I am not usually interested in doing stuff like this, but my teacher asked me to bring in a dvd to school 2morrow, and yes i own that dvd, but it's scratched, so seen as how my whole god dahm class is depending on me, i downloaded ...
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Buying a new dvd drive
Cna anyone suggest a new drive? I'd like it to burn dvd + & - r & rw and cd + & - R & rw . I would also liek sata interface. I don't need blu-ray or dvd-ram. I will be using Nero. my old lite-on (4 years old) has stopped readi...
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Burner Software
Can anyone point me in the direction of a decent freeware burner program? For some reason my dvd drive wont recognize when I put a blank cd into it and im thinking it could be because i dont have any burner software installed.
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2 drives
Is it okay to run two drives on a 400watt power supply? i have a cd/rw and a dvd/cdrw drive in.
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please insert a disk into drive d: when I already have.
I have a phillips DVD8631 and all of a sudden it asks me please insert a disk into drive d: when I already have. It seems to work with some audio cds though. I installed the latest driver http://support.dell.com/support/down...&fileid=11629...
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Changing my music playlist from WMA format to MP3 format
I have about 712 songs in my Windows Music Playlist and I was wondering if there's away to change all of those songs from WMA to MP3 in 1 big conversion? Besides of making about 37 audio CD's then convert them into MP3 format or taking each tra...
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cannot burn DVD's correctly....
heya guys, here it is:
my Nec 3540a shows up as a DVD-RW in my "my computer" screen...but when i go to burn a DVD, it shows up as a CD drive...whatever, right? so i figured i may as well try to burn it anyways...but it says that the ...
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Buying a new DVD burner, any thoughts?
Hi all I haven't made a thread in a long time so it's about time I do.
I've been looking to buy a new DVD burner for a while now but I've wanted it to be SATA and support Lightscribe and I've found what looks like a good one made by Asus.
htt...
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Lightscribe
I'm looking to buy a lightscribe dvd-ROM for my computer...
Would this be a good choice?
Can it etch in color?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...385&CatId=2873
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Blu-Ray/PS3
We'll I am in charged of "checking" the HD stuff for a TV my family is getting and I was looking through some stuff and found a Blu-Ray player
It said it played Blu-Ray but also converted regular DvD's into 1080 resolution and I w...
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What exactly is a lightscribe DVD writer
I want to buy a DVD writer. And I saw something about a Lightscribe DVD
Specifically a Liteon 20x DVD+R lightscribe, double layer DVD writer
What is the lightscribe capability. I think I saw something about a lightscribe DVD burning a lab...
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Cannot seem to write to a R-DVD
I purchased Proshow Gold (slide show software) and I can make a CD using the software but cannot make a DVD.
I have the same problem using Roxio Media Creator Ver 7. I can make a CD but not a DVD.
I thought maybe i had to format the DVD d...
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dvd problems
when i play dvd the sound pauses
it happens only with dvd cos when i play vcd the sound doesn't pause
i have _nec dvd +-rw nd 6650A
what can cause that?
Thank You
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