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    Help with FE790 DVD drive

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by tombo, Oct 3, 2006.

  1. tombo

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    Hello,

    I recently purchased a new FE790 with the following DVD option:

    DVD+-R Double layer / DVD+-RW Drive:
    The drive is capable of burning to Rewritable DVD media. There are currently two types of Rewriteable DVD technology: DVD-RW and DVD+RW. This drive supports reading and writing of both of these media types.

    The driver in device manager appears to reflec that spec, however when I bought a packet of Memorex DVD-R discs, I wasn't able to write anything to them. I tried creating a Data CD with the Sony software provided, I tried dragging files to it, and I tried to create a backup recovery disc using the Windows System tools. Each time I got an error saying something like the drive or share couldn't be written to or permissions weren't sufficient enough.

    I also tried to drag and drop some files to a CD-R disc, but also no luck.

    What types of discs should I be able to write to? Did I buy the wrong kind? What would be a good test to see if my drive is possibly broken?

    Thanks!
     
    tombo, Oct 3, 2006
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