Problems burning Recovery Discs

Here's what I do:

> Load up HP RD Creator
> Select the 2 DVD option
> Stick in my Philips blank DVD+RW
> Click Next...

Then I get a error message stating, "this is a rewritable disc, please insert a recordable DVD"?!

WTF? So, I can't write to DVD+RW?!

 

no you can't. only use dvd-r i think.

 

Fantastic! I bought a 10-pack of DVD+RWs especially for this process... Now I have to buy DVD-R's for it, are you sure that RD Creator only allows DVD-Rs?

 

im not sure if it only use DVD-Rs..but i think i've read it somewhere here that you can only use -R for the recovery discs. DVDRWs are definitely not allowed. Also try getting some good DVDRs also. like TDK's coz i tried burning with mitsubishi but the program fails to verify the disc. i tried 2 times both failed then TDK was fine.

edit: ok i just checked HP's website. here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...=228&product=3191059&dlc=en&docname=c00608578

it says DVD-R and DVD+R is ok.

 

Thanks for the information... In the meantime, I'm just going to burn the "SWSetup" and "I386" to a DVD+RW and I'm probably going to buy some DVD-RS soon for the Recovery Discs...

 

you can most definitely use +R's too.

 

I just got the dv2125nr and the Recovery Disc Creator doesn't want to burn DVDs at all.

It gets to as 33% collecting files, then Initializing Burning Engine. The drive starts flashing, spins up and down a few times, then just stops. After a few minutes it spits out the disc and tells me burning failed.

Nothing gets at all gets written. I've verified the disc is still totally blank and could be reused. I've tried TDK 8x DVD+R and Fujifilm 8x DVD-R discs.

I KNOW the drive is functional. It can read all discs and using Sonic I have burned good DVD+R and -R discs at 8x.

What gives?

 

Yep only DVD-r

 

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Why would you want to use a rewritable disc? on something that needs to be permanent is what I'm wondering...

(Yes I know they're nice, and you buy a pack fiquring you'll be able to use the others in the pack...)

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I used DVD+R successfully, but I do not know about DVD-R. I seem to remember reading in my nc8430 info that DVD +R was recommended.

I only own DVD+R so I know that I didn't get the two formats mixed up.

 

On that dv8000t I had, I usually use (-) discs and it didn't like those... pretty sure I had to use the (+) discs as I thought it weird... (Desktop doesn't like DVD+R discs, so I use DVD-R discs in it...)

Don't remember it giving a pop-up or error message, just remembering it doing something not right until I used the (+)'s. Think I like you remember reading something somewhere.. heck it could have done a self-check and gave me a pop-up... can't say for sure... been a while...At least the OP was warned before hand about needing the correct discs...

Just looked at my "user created" HP /Compaq Business Class nx6325 RB526UT#ABA.... (DVD+R)....

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What about DVD-RW? Can they be used?

 

No RWs ever...they will fail.

 

You can use CD-Rs or maybe CD+Rs, too. Of course, you'll need a dozen or so. I have a ton of them since I only had a CD burner on my old ThinkPad A-30. (Heh, probably shouldn't have mentioned that in the HP forum...) They worked fine for burning recovery discs for a v6030US and a v3000z.

 

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Just want to mention to people who may have a machine with a DVD burner and have a bunch of CDR's laying around that while you may be able to do so burning to CD's isn't a good idea as (1) bad cd, one missing, or broken CD ruins the whole set.

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Argh. Okay, I'm having a different problem. I want to delete the recovery partition so I can use all that wasted space. Each time I try to start the recovery disc burning process, it gets to the page where you choose what (cd, dvd, etc.) you want to burn, and the first two options are grayed out -- leaving me with only the CD-R option.

I agree with the previous poster; one bad CD is a lot more likely in 18 than one bad DVD of two or three. I have a LightScribe DVD+/- RW burner, so I'm clueless as to why it doesn't recognize it.

The other issue is that, when I hit Cancel to leave the Recovery program, I get an error: "CD Creator.exe - Application Error..." "The instruction at '0x0049acb2' referenced memory at '0x00000004'. The memory could not be 'read'."

Ideas? Is this Sonic that's causing the error? Why isn't the Recovery program recognizing my DVD burner?

Thanks!

 

Same problem here: when I try to burn my system recovery discs, the application says that my drive doesn't support DVD burning. The DVD burner definitely works: I just burned a backup data disc on DVD-R using the Sonic application.

Any help, any ideas?

 

Have you found the fix? I have exactly the same problem with my newly purchased C310TU.

 

An hp page online
( http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?cc=us&docname=bph08097&lc=en)
says that the recovery creator only supports DVD+R, rather than DVD-R. However, the manual that came with my nc8430 stated -R will work (and I successfully burned them to -R so it does). It just depends on the version of the software that came with your laptop.

The stated reason for not supporting RW is "Only one set of discs can be created. DVD+R or CD-R media must be used to prevent the possibility of successfully creating another disc over a previously copied disc, thus ruining the set of discs."

The restrictions on making one copy is apparently due to licensing restrictions with Microsoft - though I can't figure out why creating multiple copies really matters considering they only work for a particular model of laptop, and they say you are permitted to use your recovery discs on another user's laptop of the same model (e.g. - if they lost/ruined their discs). Seems pretty stupid to me.

As a side note, the first time I tried burning my recovery dvd it failed with an error code 20. It did burn something to the DVD though. I popped in another DVD (same brand) and the second time it worked successfully. For reference, I used Maxwell DVD-R 8x.

Bob

 

DVD+R worked fine for recovery disks on my new HP Pavilion dv9008nr