Files/photos/videos/songs not burning on Vista

Hi,

i feel like suing Microsoft, coz i wasted a pack of my CD's and no results.

i dragged n dropped also,

i used Windows movie maker also,

i tried Windows media player also.


but all files that burn never show up on Disc

and the DVD player also doesnt read them.


its a serious OS problem.. why/

coz i tried on my dads VAio also which runs on Vista business.

Man,

i am so frustrated today... all CD's just get formatted to some UDF format on their own

and they get wasted forever.

What is the problem can u tell me.

CAn u recommend me a Good software to Burn audio, photos and videos pls.

thanks.

 

Nero.

Did you try dfferent media? Sony should have bundled actual writing software.

Not to say this is the situation in your case but people are very quick to dump on Vista/MS as the problem to everything.

 

ImgBurn is about the best, and free to boot!

 

There is DVD maker on home basic & business......?

I'm burning one now to test

UDF is the universal format for CDs. Depending on the brand you use/brand of you DVD player, it's possible that it doesn't play. Any CD/DVD that isn't labelled " Made in Japan" shouldn't be used at all imo

EDIT: Abolutely no problem with Windows DVD Maker using Taiyo Yuden DVD-R 16X

 

Look,

burning CD is what i ve been doing since 10 years on XP, windows 98, 2000 & even Windows ME.

but on Vista, it just doesnt work.

it burns in some weird format and then NO player reads the disc

and the CD & even the Sony DVD i tested all become useless Crap.

i know we all members are Fedup of users complaining about Vista, but yes the problems still exist.

and we should try solving them instead of giving up.

i am still using Vista because of many advantages but it has lot of issues which render it unproductive for Serious work.



I am not buying Nero,



I wanna burn mp3 songs & Photos & movies also.

so how is ImgBurn for burning mp3 songs?

 

I had the same problem with Vista, so i just started using Nero (it has waaaay more features anyway)

 

'so how is ImgBurn for burning mp3 songs?'
As MP3s? Use build mode, burn disk. IDK if it does Audio CD. I've heard a lot of good about Burrrnnn (sp?) for audio CD.

 

Ive always found the built-in burning program for both XP and Vista useless. They dont work very well and just waste cd's

 

yes, thats why i posted this Topic.

i lost 4 CD's +3 expensive DVD's to Vista's bugged Burner.

 

Just curious, did your laptop(s) not come with actual recording software (roxio or otherwise)?

 

nocturnal could be coz ur laptop is old. and ur using windows vista basic.

im using vista premium and ive got no problem dragging, dropping and burning video music and photofiles in cds, i tried earlier to burn a dual layer dvd just to see if dual burning would be true and tadahhh! burnt 7gb back up! hehe.

as for vista being a bad burner, tried it on my vostro and burns just as well! its business version. my 1 complaint is that its slow, it takes a while to burn big files, compared to XP with nero and stuff,

i actually tired nero on my vista and it was incompatible hell of a time UNINSTALLING it, IMAGE burn works alright btw and its free.

 

Aslo wondered why you even bothered using vista's when most have 3rd party applications already installed. I never used Vista's burner only Roxio and NTI

 

I have a new dv9700t laptop (Vista 32 byte). In defense of Vista, I have burned a number of DVDs using Vista's software and it has worked fine. It is significantly slower than my older desktop system that uses Nero. I don't know how much of that is due to the laptop burner itself. To burn a full DVD the laptop takes just over 15 minutes and the desktop just over 6 minutes.

Does anyone know how much of a time saving they got when they transfered to these third party burning software, i.e., did they time a full DVD's creation?

 

it used to work fine for me too..

i have burned 4 movies on a DVD.

but suddenly it became weird.

its burning in some weird format.

and sometimes not even burning as if the burner is locked by the system.


anyway.

All i am asking is for a Software to burn .avi or mpeg4 files on a DVD so i can play them on my DivX compatible DVD player from pioneer.

 

I assume you burned them to the wrong format, such as a data cd/dvd wich is for data storage or computer use vs CD or DVD formats. That or you left the session open in wich no device will read it until its closed.

Plus make sure you follow all the normal common burning rules, use high quality media when you can, and a slow burn speed.

4cd's and 3dvd's is really not that much money :/ I think your lawsut against Microsoft will cost you alot more (trust me my lawyer is 250$ an hour)