dvd drive not reading dvdr disks properly

bum · Post by **bum** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:23 am

im having a realy anoying problem with my dvd drive. a freind burnt me a dvd about a week ago (just a data disk with some videos) . when i got home, poped it in my hard disk and it started going wierd. the disk would spin up, then slow down, and go back faster again and just keep looping. i cant access it in any way. about 10-15 seconds afte ri put the disk in my pc locks up and the only way to get it working again is to take out the disk, and then everything goes back to normal. this happens with two data dvd's that freinds have burnt for me. both disks are the same brand (well, they're no-name. the face is just blank. raed side is a light purple, if that means anything) . the problem however is just happening with me, as 3 freinds have tried both disks ontheir drives and they both worked fine for them.anyway, a freind gave me a dvd (another data disk, with just one video on it) yesterday and strangely enough it worked fine. this disk was different however. it was an "integrity diamond" disk. or thats what writen on it. its just a standard dvd5 like the others. this one however i know is a DVD+R . so that got me thinking. could the other disks be -R and would my drive be able to only read +R dvd's ? or is the problem something els ? i tried installing forceaspi , still the same problem with the other disks.

anyone got any idea ? i would realy like to get the stuff in these dvd's out of them, as in, i wana use the damn thing.

thanks in advance. (oh and, forgot to mention this. drive is a liteon 16x dvd drive, and im running winxp pro with sp1, if thats any help).

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 2:00 pm

I had similar problems with off-brand DVDs back when I first started using DVD drives. My solution was to use only name brand DVD blanks (TDK, Memorex, Fuji, etc.). I've had no problems since then except for the (very) rare bad disk.

About all I can suggest is to try another drive if you get access to one. Some drives are more sensitive to flakey discs. If a friend's PC can read them, then a transfer by network or some other method will do it.

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 4:48 pm

Have you checked the manufacturers web site for firmware updates. I had problems like that witha a cd drive and firmware update fixed it.

LovEnPeaCE · Post by **LovEnPeaCE** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:28 pm

well, there may be something with your dvd drive that you currently have. Keep in mind that not all cd's can be played on any cd reader, and this goes as well for dvd's. It may be that your dvd reader drive is not able to read, in this case, the off-brand dvd's. However, in the future, you may see this more often. There are many types of dvds. If you would like, it might be easier to just get a dvd writer/rewrite drive that supports all versions of dvd's.

bum · Post by **bum** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:33 am

oldwrench wrote:Have you checked the manufacturers web site for firmware updates. I had problems like that witha a cd drive and firmware update fixed it.

i found the latest firmware drivers and installed them (taking every precation, including closing all other programs and uninstalling and burning/imaging software before i installed the drivers) and im still having the same damn problem.