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    DVD-ROM does not read DVD-R

    Discussion in 'HP' started by davidt1, Dec 16, 2009.

  1. davidt1

    davidt1 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi all,

    I have a 17'' DV9000 laptop. It's about 4 year old. Yesterday I made 2 copies of 2 DVDs on 2 DVD-Rs. Today I tried to make 2 copies from the copies, but the "fail to read" error kept coming up. The copies play just fine in the same DVD-ROM.

    Anybody has any idea what' happening? Thanks.
     
    davidt1, Dec 16, 2009
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  2. deeastman

    deeastman Notebook Deity

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    So to recap, the DVD-ROM is actually your optical DVD reader/burner correct?
    You can read from the DVD's you created yesterday from your optical drive but if you try to read and burn using your DVD creation software, the read fails? Strange since the read is the same, it is just storing the data as an image on your HD before it requests a new disk to burn the image to.

    Are these movie DVD's or data DVD's? Can you copy the data from the DVD's to a directory on your HD and then burn new copies from there?

    I personally never use DVD-R's anymore, I have much better success with name brand (i.e. not memorex) DVD+R's. I would be curious if you used DVD+R's if you have the same issues.
     
    deeastman, Dec 16, 2009
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  3. flipfire

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    What burning program are you using?

    Ive had issues in the past using DVD-R's. Try using +R
     
    flipfire, Dec 16, 2009
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  4. davidt1

    davidt1 Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes, it is the laptop optical drive. I have not tried copying to the hard drive first. I did not think to use DVD+R. I will try both tomorrow.

    I used both Nero and Roxio.

    Thanks for the replies.

    Edit: I just gave it some thought. It copied successfully the first time to DVD-R. So copying to DVD-R is not a problem. Now I won't be able to use DVD+R to copy since it won't read from the copied DVD-R. I returned the originals that I copied from which are also copies. What I don't remember is which type the original copies were: DVD-R or DVD+R?
     
    davidt1, Dec 17, 2009
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