[Negotiator]

Ok my dvd drive is clearerly able to burn dvds as it says on the drive. But when i open, up d drive and drag a file onto it, it wont burn. What am i doing wrong?

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=97237

This is the drive

 

[DuckieHo]

What application do you have to burn the DVD?

 

[Negotiator]

you mean piece of software? I dont have any because when burn a normal cd you just drag to d drive and tell windows to burn it, dont dvds work in the same way?

 

[DuckieHo]

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Originally Posted by Negotiator you mean piece of software? I dont have any because when burn a normal cd you just drag to d drive and tell windows to burn it, dont dvds work in the same way?

No, you have to have a piece of software to do anything. I am not sure... but I assume XP/Vista has a built-in CD burner and this is what your are using. Not sure if it has DVD burning software intergrated.

 

[Negotiator]

i do have roxio dvd/cd burner on a disk, will this help

 

[Unl33t]

I personally use Nero7, I havent had a problem with it at all yet.

 

[Edstrung]

Hmm, I am pretty sure Vista comes with built-in DVD burning, not sure about XP.
Have you tried 'right-clicking' the file you want to burn and select 'Send to' and then choose your dvd drive? If so, what options do you have?

 

[Toonboy]

You can use media center in Vista to burn dvd`s but i`m not sure about XP.
Install roxio and that will do the trick.

 

[Negotiator]

when you drag and drop or use send to the options care cancel or retry, you just keep clicking on retry and nothing happens. Roxio is installed now so ill see what happens.

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Originally Posted by Edstrung Hmm, I am pretty sure Vista comes with built-in DVD burning, not sure about XP. Have you tried 'right-clicking' the file you want to burn and select 'Send to' and then choose your dvd drive? If so, what options do you have?

 

[Negotiator]

update: Ok, roxio isnt working either. when i put a blank dvd into the drive the drive doesnt even see the disk at all. Using my link above is my drive definatly a dvd burner? Or do i need firmware update?

 

[la4ours]

Make sure you are using the dvd portion of the software. If you have multiple drives in your system, it may be looking @ your cdrw instead of the dvdrw. This is a common problem when burning (for me) in Nero. Sometimes it's pointing to the cdrw.

 

[Emmanuel]

You need a software to burn a DVD.

 

[FearSC549]

Use www.deepburner.com

It's free and very good.

 

[cognoscenti]

CD burning is inbuilt with XP with the 'write these files to CD' wizard.
DVD burning requires third party applications.

 

[Negotiator]

nothing seems to be working, when i enter a blank dvd into the drive the d drive icon changes from a DVD ram to a CD drive, whats going on?