DVD-RW drive question.

[klingonbear]

Suddenly, my DVD-RW drive doesn't recognise blank DVD media. It's not the first time I've used this media (TDK discs) and it worked perfectly a week ago.

I've now got a DVD all lined up in Nero, ready to go, but every time I put a blank disc in the drive, the computer says it's a CD that has 0 bytes on it and has a capacity of 0 bytes.

DVD and CD playback is fine. System restore refuses to restore (another pathetic failure from WinXP).

Any ideas out there?

Cheers in advance

[mikkh]

Try a different burning program first, there are lots of freeware ones available

This covers most of the better ones I was going to recommend

www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-best-free-alternatives-to-nero-cddvd-burner/

If they prove nothing, then buying a new writer isn't that expensive, but don't expect the new one to last very long either as they just don't seem to have the same durabilty or build quality of older DVDRW drives

[elvisuk]

ImgBurn is very good i use it a lot with XP

[phoney]

Probably not true but someone told me that if you need two DVD's to save a file and you start with a DVD+RW and then use a DVD-RW the -RW will not be recognised.
You need DVD's of the same type to complete a task.

[klingonbear]

The wretched beast started co-operating after a few restarts. Ah well, at least I now have a done disc... I'm afraid I have no idea what the hassle was, but that appears to be the way of the world.

Cheers, folks!