Dvd Writer problems
 

Ok so on my cd burner it says hp dvd writer. cd writer combo. Anyways, when i stick a dvd-r into it it wont read it, says please insert a drive into drive f.

Im pretty sure it works, it works with regular cds, but not these, help?!

Not to insult your intelligence, but first make sure the disc surface is clean.

The disc may have been burned using a file structure that Windows doesn't recognize, possibly a Mac specific standard? Or maybe it was burned using either a weak DVD burner or a low quality DVD-R, in either case the burnt in "pits" aren't reading correctly. Or is your HP writer a DVD+R? Just throwing some things out there, I dunno.

brand new cd, and when i put a different cd in there it works fine. Its a hp dvd writer/cd-writer combo, thats my drive, iono why it wont work, but i need to move all my songs and microsoft word on a cd, and then hard boot pc.

can u give a model number for that drive?

yup its not Accepting the Minus R

its a philips dvd8421, the other one is a asus cd-s480/AH

when i looked up that philips drive, the first hits were for problems recongnizing discs. it might actually be the drive itself.

also, it says it only a +R drive, so make sure you only use +R/W media, not -R/W
the asus one just looks a cd-rom drive.

what you mean, what kind of cd do i need to put 2 gigs of music onto it, i also want to burn microsoft word. What i wana know is why i cant burn it, and what cd i can, besides just normal ones.

try this patch update.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...tem=pv-25051-1