Re: Drive reads CD but not DVD

On Jul 15, 9:54 am, g...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) wrote:
davidlaska wrote:
I have one of those recycled slow DVD-r burners you talked about
(Toshiba 5000 series) that I bounce around between a internal IDE
hookup on my desktop and a fire wire enclosure for mac laptop.
Someone gave me a compact presario 1500 laptop with mini firewire
port. I bought a cable to hook up the burner in external firewire
enclosure (oxford chipset) to the mini fire wire port on the compact
laptop. Windows XP undated the drivers from the net and I can read
CD's and DVD but I cannot writer anything to that drive.

My question is, is a mini firewire ports function different from a
regular firewire port?
Am I even asking the right question?

The firewire ports are the same. Be careful, firewire 400 ports are
notorius for both being able to be plugged in backwards if you push (for
example by reaching around the back of a computer) which can burn out
the ports and Macintosh computers are very finicky about the cables. I
bought a USB 2, Firewire combo which would not work on my Mac until I
bought a better cable. You may have a similar problem with the laptop.

The other problem is that you may need software to use the drive as
a burner. I know Windows XP has some sort of file burning software in it,
and I've used XP longer than most people on many systems, but have
never used it.

I use NERO, which you can download a demo for free. I also use
BURNATONCE (freeware) for copying CD's and buring ISO images, and
Slysoft's suite for copying them.

You can also try DVD decrypter (free but no longer available, look for
it on archive sites) to read and burn video DVD's and DVDshrink to convert
a double sided disk to single sided by recoding the video.

Geoff.

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MeatPlow made me realized firewire is firewire. You brought up two
issues that I will have to explore, quality of the cable and see if
"Nero" can recognize the burner.

Is there more than one archive site? I only know about "webarchive.org"

.

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