DVD Burner does not work ?!?

[cat28]

Hi!

I have a Sony Vaio PCG-FR215H with a Toshiba DVD Rom SD-R 6012... so far everything was fine when burning DVDs, lately my notebook tells me that the DVD burn was sucessfull, but when I check on the dvd by putting it back into the notebook, it tells me that the dvd is empty opting me to open a folder for writing dvds??? I´ve done 2 dvds today and they are both empty according to my notebook, but they both showed to have burned sucessfully (with nero as well as another program). I´ve burned two 700mb cds after that and they are fine...

any ideas?

thanks

[Twisted-Rizla]

Couple of things. Have you loaded SP2 recently? If so have a look in Vaio-Link for any updates.
Secondly, what type of discs are you using? Vaios can be very tempramental with certain discs.

[Snipes]

Couple of things. Have you loaded SP2 recently? If so have a look in Vaio-Link for any updates.
Secondly, what type of discs are you using? Vaios can be very tempramental with certain discs.

i agree, sounds like your useing wrong disks, (but i guess you have been useing the same 1's) and if not, if your laptop is still under garantee i would send it back.

[cat28]

hi guys,

well, the first time around my notebook killed off expensive sony dvds! I figued out the hard way that my vaio does not like certain dvds (especially the cheaper ones), but I have always been happy with my intenso dvds - they have always worked until now... the funny thing though is that yesterday it burned three dvds in a row perfectly, today it killed off two... unfortunately my guarantee has expired two months ago...

someone told me that a combo-drive has two lasers inside it burns roms with, one for dvd and the other one for cd-roms, which would explain why burning cds works perfectly and burning dvds does not (anymore)...

and yes I have upgraded to Windows SP2, but the downloads/updates for my notebook are the same as they have been before my SP2 update... so I guess, SP2 does not affect my notebook...

[Twisted-Rizla]

What program are you using to burn the discs?

[kee-lo_]

Looks like Nero TR

[cat28]

I´m using Nero 6.xx corporate edition....

[kee-lo_]

Make sure you have set it to burn DVD (ISO) and not Movie.

[cat28]

Make sure you have set it to burn DVD (ISO) and not Movie.

thanks for this, but I know what I´m doing - I´m burning DVD ISO only ...

[kee-lo_]

Can't think of anything else to suggest, except calling VAIO Link