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| mdamon7278 |
| I just bought a new dell comp since my lovely gateway piece of that is, finally died on me and went out the window and landed in tiger's backyard, I backed up all of my music, movies and pics on dvd-r's, and after using 9 discs, the drive are not reading the rest, coming up blank this is the first problem i have had with these discs and I dont know what to do |
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| Cuervo79 |
well have you tried the basics?
Reading the DVDr`s in anoterh comp?
Sometimes but not allways there are some errors while writing on dvdr`s
I burned some top gear episodes to free up some space and 1 or 2 are a little bit choppy in some parts.
did you zip them or compressed them in any way?
sometimes it all just goes terribly wrong. |
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| Zoso |
I had something similar happen once when working on a Dell. You can try this, though I cannot guarantee it will help. Right click on my computer and go to properties. Go to the Hardware tab and click on Device Manager. Expand the CD/DVD drive icon. Right click on the CD/DVD (in my case it's a Samsung model, for example). Go to Properties and then the Properties tab. Check the "enable digital CD audio" option. Make it the opposite of its current setting, then try reading the disk again. Crazy, but it worked for me. Cheers!
Edit: you are positive that the drive is DVD capable, not just a plain CD drive? |
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| mdamon7278 |
| Thanx for the info, the drive is dvd/r/rw drive and i have put dvd-r on it yesterday and they were working fine, i odnt get why the rest is not workin |
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| Zoso |
| I take it my madness didn't work? :( |
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| mdamon7278 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zoso
I had something similar happen once when working on a Dell. You can try this, though I cannot guarantee it will help. Right click on my computer and go to properties. Go to the Hardware tab and click on Device Manager. Expand the CD/DVD drive icon. Right click on the CD/DVD (in my case it's a Samsung model, for example). Go to Properties and then the Properties tab. Check the "enable digital CD audio" option. Make it the opposite of its current setting, then try reading the disk again. Crazy, but it worked for me. Cheers!
Edit: you are positive that the drive is DVD capable, not just a plain CD drive? |
tried that, didnt work, the enable button was already clicked |
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| Zoso |
| Try disabling it. I can't recall what it was set on when I had the issue, I just know I had to set it to the opposite of its default. |
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| mdamon7278 |
| tried that too, no nothing, I dont get it, this is in lame |
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| igottaknow |
| if you still have your old hard drive just hooked it up as a second drive on you new computer and move your data off it. cd/dvd aren't reliable for backup purposes. |
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| Tsukai |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
if you still have your old hard drive just hooked it up as a second drive on you new computer and move your data off it. cd/dvd aren't reliable for backup purposes. |
+1
I always use another harddrive to back up files, external or internal. Never had a problem to this day. I've got files dating back at least 10 years ago. |
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| mdamon7278 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tsukai
+1
I always use another harddrive to back up files, external or internal. Never had a problem to this day. I've got files dating back at least 10 years ago. |
well the old one is broke, cant open up or anything, if I go to best buy and buy an external drive, would it work? |
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| placebo |
| quote: | Originally posted by mdamon7278
well the old one is broke, cant open up or anything, if I go to best buy and buy an external drive, would it work? |
No, open up your PC and attach the old hard drive and set it as a slave drive, there should be an IDE cable and a power cable for second hard drive. Then when you boot, you should be able to browse the second drive using windows explorer. Even though it's broken, you can still get your files off of it. I have done this hundreds of times for people. :) |
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