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Help with burning DVD

frozentundra123456

frozentundra123456

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Hi all, hope this the the best forum for this post.

I am having trouble burning a DVD in 2 older dell pentium 4 machines. Both machines are about 5 years old and have 3ghz PIV processors and 1GB of ram, win XP pro 32bit.

Neither machine will format or write to a DVD-R disk. The DVD "writer" is an NEC ND-3530A. The machines will play DVDs and write to CD, but not DVD. Both machines have the same problem, and I have tried several diffenent blank disks. They will not even format the DVD. They say fatal error trying to write to disk. Both have Sonic DVD writing software, but I deleted it from one comp and tried to use the native windows burning program, but that will not work either. I get the same error message and cannot format the disk.

Can anyone help me with this problem?? My company can no longer use flash drives because of security concerns, but as far as I know we can still transfer files with DVD media.(Makes no sense to me but that is the rule.) So I would like to use a DVD to transfer some files to a newer comp. Any help would be appreciated.
 
I see this problem in older dells all the bloody time. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers first, that sometimes fixes it. If not, go to the register and delete the high and low filters. If those two things don't work, then it's time for a new drive.
 
Does that Sonic software even support packet writing? That method of writing is not reliable, so few people do it anymore.
 
Thanks to all who answered.
I seem to have got it to work by using a different kind of media. The specs say you can use a DVD plus or minus disks. I was using DVD-, but happened to find an old DVD+/RW disk and that seems to work. I dont know if it is because it is a + disk or RW disk, or if it is because it is from the same time frame that the drive was manufactured. Unfortunately, I have only one of those old disks around, so I may have to experiment to find some new ones that work.
 
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