DVD RAM Media

[Guest]

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I installed Windows XP SP2 last Friday. The install went
well. I am having a problem with my Toshiba DVD RAM
drive, P/N SD-W2002. When I place a DVD RAM disk into
the drive, Explorer says it is write protected, hence I
can't write to it. I booted the same PC with a hard
drive w/o SP2 and did not have this problem. In
addition, I have noticed that right clicking properties
on this drive in Explorer no longer gives me the format
option.

Any help will be appreciated.

Best regards,

Steve

 

[abc]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Have you looked at properties of the drive and see if there's a recording
tab and if recording is enabled? Don't have a DVD but my cdrw has a
recording tab in properties with a checkbox for enabling recording.

"Steve Schultz" <ssinustwo@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:6f5e01c4945b$1dce9870$a501280a@phx.gbl...
I installed Windows XP SP2 last Friday. The install went
well. I am having a problem with my Toshiba DVD RAM
drive, P/N SD-W2002. When I place a DVD RAM disk into
the drive, Explorer says it is write protected, hence I
can't write to it. I booted the same PC with a hard
drive w/o SP2 and did not have this problem. In
addition, I have noticed that right clicking properties
on this drive in Explorer no longer gives me the format
option.

Any help will be appreciated.

Best regards,

Steve

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Try removing the drive from Device Manager (Start-Run-Devmgmt.msc) and
reboot

----
Nathan McNulty


abc wrote:
> Have you looked at properties of the drive and see if there's a recording
> tab and if recording is enabled? Don't have a DVD but my cdrw has a
> recording tab in properties with a checkbox for enabling recording.
>
> "Steve Schultz" <ssinustwo@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:6f5e01c4945b$1dce9870$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I installed Windows XP SP2 last Friday. The install went
> well. I am having a problem with my Toshiba DVD RAM
> drive, P/N SD-W2002. When I place a DVD RAM disk into
> the drive, Explorer says it is write protected, hence I
> can't write to it. I booted the same PC with a hard
> drive w/o SP2 and did not have this problem. In
> addition, I have noticed that right clicking properties
> on this drive in Explorer no longer gives me the format
> option.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Similar problem. after loading xp sp2 i can no longer burn data to dvd using
windows explorer. I can burn movies to dvd using other manufacturer software
but not win exp. It will let me store temp files for burning but when i go to
write files to disk it does not recognized the dvd media.?? Already
uninstalled sp2, removed and resinstalled drive, searched for updated drivers
and firmware..

"Nathan McNulty" wrote:

> Try removing the drive from Device Manager (Start-Run-Devmgmt.msc) and
> reboot
>
> ----
> Nathan McNulty
>
>
> abc wrote:
> > Have you looked at properties of the drive and see if there's a recording
> > tab and if recording is enabled? Don't have a DVD but my cdrw has a
> > recording tab in properties with a checkbox for enabling recording.
> >
> > "Steve Schultz" <ssinustwo@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:6f5e01c4945b$1dce9870$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > I installed Windows XP SP2 last Friday. The install went
> > well. I am having a problem with my Toshiba DVD RAM
> > drive, P/N SD-W2002. When I place a DVD RAM disk into
> > the drive, Explorer says it is write protected, hence I
> > can't write to it. I booted the same PC with a hard
> > drive w/o SP2 and did not have this problem. In
> > addition, I have noticed that right clicking properties
> > on this drive in Explorer no longer gives me the format
> > option.
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

XP does not support writing to DVD Media. I would have to check about
DVD-RAM since that is slightly different, but it wouldn't surprise me if
that wasn't allowed either.

Were you actually able to do this before? If you were, was it possibly
a different software program you had installed that was doing the
writing and not actually Windows? I cannot be of too much help with
DVD-RAM since that is the only format I have not used.

-----
Nathan McNulty

m_jward wrote:
> Similar problem. after loading xp sp2 i can no longer burn data to dvd using
> windows explorer. I can burn movies to dvd using other manufacturer software
> but not win exp. It will let me store temp files for burning but when i go to
> write files to disk it does not recognized the dvd media.?? Already
> uninstalled sp2, removed and resinstalled drive, searched for updated drivers
> and firmware..
>
> "Nathan McNulty" wrote:
>
>
>>Try removing the drive from Device Manager (Start-Run-Devmgmt.msc) and
>>reboot
>>
>>----
>>Nathan McNulty
>>
>>
>>abc wrote:
>>
>>>Have you looked at properties of the drive and see if there's a recording
>>>tab and if recording is enabled? Don't have a DVD but my cdrw has a
>>>recording tab in properties with a checkbox for enabling recording.
>>>
>>>"Steve Schultz" <ssinustwo@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>>news:6f5e01c4945b$1dce9870$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>>I installed Windows XP SP2 last Friday. The install went
>>>well. I am having a problem with my Toshiba DVD RAM
>>>drive, P/N SD-W2002. When I place a DVD RAM disk into
>>>the drive, Explorer says it is write protected, hence I
>>>can't write to it. I booted the same PC with a hard
>>>drive w/o SP2 and did not have this problem. In
>>>addition, I have noticed that right clicking properties
>>>on this drive in Explorer no longer gives me the format
>>>option.
>>>
>>>Any help will be appreciated.
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>
>>>Steve
>>>
>>>
>>