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Help! DVD Drive not working

T

The Pentium Guy

Diamond Member
Alright, here we go.

I have some movies backed up in a vcd in a .DAT file (Nero Showtime File), they're on a CD, roughly 700 MB. When I try to transfer the .DAT file to my computer, 2 things happen:

(1) 50% done, I get a box saying that I have a DOS Error
(2) 99% done, I get a box saying that I have a DOS Error.

I thought the CD was corrupt. HOWEVER, I put this on another computer, transferred the file and it worked!

I have 2 DVD Drives (One burner, one reader) on the computer (the former computer, the one which did not work). Both of them did not work.

Here are my specs (the ones that matter. Obviously my graphics card isn't going to matter here).
ASUS P4P800-E deluxe
2x512MB PC3200 RAM (Sorry, don't remember the brand..etc)
MAXTOR 80GB HD (7200RPM)
SONY DVD Reader (16X)
DVD BURNER (16x) <-- Don't remember the brand name.

Windows XP Professional Edition

I formatted using FAT32 and not NTFS, completely by accident. I overlooked this. I know, I made a mistake.

What do you guys think the problem is? I'm not really sure what the issue is here. Is it beucase I used FAT32? Its not the CDs becuase they worked on a different computer

Please help,
-The Pentium Guy
 
I know that 😛. BUt I just want my dvd drive to work. They work for smaller files... I dont know why its complaining about this..?
 
Optical drives can give very different behaviors when reading different discs, especially potentially hard-to-read ones. That's one reason why I tend to have such a diversity of optical drives in my box. I would investigate the ATAPI driver issue mentioned, but if that doesn't pan out, it may well simply be a drive-disc compatibility issue. If speed is not of concern, but accurate reading of the data is, then download "Nero DriveSpeed", and set the read-speed of your drive(s) downward, possibly to their lowest speeds, and then try reading the problematic discs. Slowing down the read speed can often help.
 
Gee, thanks.
Now this is a very newbish question.

But are ATAPI drivers for my motherboard? (Would I get them from my motherboard's website) or from the chipset (Intel i865)

-The Pentium Guy
 
Thanks guys.
I'm getting this file:

FileName ich5usb2_2K.zip Version 1.00 Date 2003/04/07
Description
More...
File Size 121.5
(KBytes)
OS All

I hope that's it. It's version 1 though. So I should already have it 😱

-The Pentium Guy
 
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