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General Stuff => General Chit Chat => Topic started by: [TiG]Steven on March 14, 2005, 08:59:36 PM

Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Steven on March 14, 2005, 08:59:36 PM: i need some advice as regards my dvd drive .

1st off I'm sure as I can be that I do have a DVD-RW drive installed because it is marked as such in my computer and also on the front of the drive itself(along with cd-drive also) . also it is marked as such on my manufacturers website.

But here's the prob . when i put in a DVD-r or a DVD-RW disk my drive wont recognise it and starts calling itself a cd-drive . if i try to record stuff onto the DVD disk it asks for a CD-r or CD-RW to be put in .

So what the story here? Im lost . am i using the wrong type of disks . both the dvd-r and the dvd-rw ones are brand new . do i need a specific type?

by the way it is a SD-R5112 DVD-R/-RW Drive. (or so it says on the tin)
Title: need advice
Post by: Brendy on March 14, 2005, 09:12:38 PM: i might be steven that your drive only accepts either +or- discs. check the format of the discs u are using against what the instructions say :D
Title: need advice
Post by: [GiT] Karma on March 14, 2005, 09:50:53 PM: use -RW's
Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Steven on March 14, 2005, 10:00:49 PM: ill try DVD-RW tomorrow . thanks for the reply .
Title: need advice
Post by: tig|Bosco on March 15, 2005, 11:28:06 AM: What burning software are you using Steven?
Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Steven on March 15, 2005, 06:44:59 PM: none that i know of . i just copy it to the new disk straight from the folder .
Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Chunks on March 15, 2005, 09:06:11 PM: tbh thats not the most reliable way...use summat like ahead nero or Roxio easy cd creator....they seem to be fairly user friendly and straightforward. I've a copy of nero if you want it
Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Devil_Monkey on March 15, 2005, 10:06:20 PM: So you're using the microsoft built-in brning software.
Does that support DVD burning?
Dodgy Roxio or legal stuff for cheap, the way forward.
Title: need advice
Post by: tig|Bosco on March 16, 2005, 11:39:05 AM: XP's built in burning doesn't do DVDs to my knowledge.
Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Devil_Monkey on March 16, 2005, 12:02:01 PM: That is my understanding of it.
A copy of Nero may be required.
This is something the web or friends can provide.
Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Chunks on March 16, 2005, 04:11:12 PM: I have a copy of Ahead Nero Burning ROM v6.3.1.10 Ultra Edition

Its 47mb's in size so im sure it can be uploaded to space or tranferred overnight via msn or somethin.....

.... if its any use to you let me know and we'll set up a way to get it to you
Title: need advice
Post by: [GIT]Fairy on March 16, 2005, 04:37:29 PM: I'm sure you can download an evaluation copy from their website. All you need is a key then, wonder who has one of them, cough.

Fairy
Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Steven on March 16, 2005, 07:34:14 PM: nah its fine .my comp already has Sonic RecordNow on it, I just found out .

Moving important shit onto DVD's now and then hard-disk formatting we go!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Steven on March 16, 2005, 07:47:18 PM: How long should moving 5GB of stuff from the hard disk to the dvd take? coz im getting told 700mins(7 hours) as we speak .

now im getting errors...................grrrrrrrrrr .
Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Devil_Monkey on March 17, 2005, 06:33:54 PM: I have a 12x DVD burner and it takes about 5 minutes with Nero on x8 speed DVD-R media.
Title: need advice
Post by: [GIT]Fairy on March 17, 2005, 06:38:11 PM: Hmmm that doesnt sound right Steven. Might be an idea just to dump anything that isnt really personal and start again. I formatted my hard drive into a c and d partition. All of my downloads, music, patches are on D. Win XP is on C so I can reformat it and reinstall anytime I want and still keep all my data.

Fairy
Title: need advice
Post by: Cpt.Cakk on March 17, 2005, 06:54:12 PM: Same, except I've got 4 partitions of 30GB.

C, D, E, F..

C is windows

D is games

E and F are shit like documents, music, videos, etc.
Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Devil_Monkey on March 17, 2005, 07:07:10 PM: Aye, partitions are the way forward if you have a big-ish drive.
The only thing you ever really want to format is your utilities and programs but most of all Windows itself.

C:\ Windows & stuff
D:\ Downloads (patches, drivers and installers)
F:\ Freespace
G:\ Games
M:\ Media (vids & mp3s)
P:\ Pagefile (to keep it from fragmenting)

When the machine goes tits up, I format C:
When it comes to defraggmenting, I clean C: and G:, the rest can stay crappy until I'm bored.

If you're formatting, the important Nam folders are your settings&profiles and pb folders(just in case).
Redoing your profile to how you liked it sucks teh cock.
Title: need advice
Post by: [GIT]Fairy on March 17, 2005, 07:14:37 PM: On that point dev I have a ctd error that happens occasionally. When I go back into the game I will have lost either my inf settings or vehicle settings, or both. I never loose my air or common settings.

Its a bitch having to go in and reset these. I used to be able to write batch files eons ago but cant remember how to do it. Would anyone be able to fire up a simple batch file that would copy player.con etc files from a safe location into the game folder on the c drive.

Fairy.

PS I could do this if I tried but there is always someone who can do it faster.
Title: need advice
Post by: Kayos on March 18, 2005, 03:56:50 AM: Quote from: [TiG]Devil_Monkey

P:\ Pagefile (to keep it from fragmenting)

Please say your p driveis one of the first you created i.e on the inside of the platter...

I run 3x 20GB Win32/Wind64/Images and 1 x 240GB Downloads etc
Title: need advice
Post by: [TiG]Devil_Monkey on March 18, 2005, 07:08:09 PM: I put it on the raptor altogether.
G: and P: are on a Raptor74.
The rest are Seagate 160GB.
I just hate having the page file muddled into the windows partition.