I had a problem where my software would not see the DVD burner unless it was cabled as "master."           --Anna Summers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Russ Poffenberger 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] DVD burning programs not seeing medium disc in tray


Hi Ron,

Are you sure this writer also does DVD's? Many DVD/CD drives in laptops
except for fairly new ones had drives that could burn CDR and CDRW but only
read DVD ROM, not burn them.

Try burning to a CDR or CDRW.

Russ Poffenberger
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-----Original Message-----
From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ronald Smith
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:51 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCSOFT] DVD burning programs not seeing medium disc in tray


ello

My Toshiba Tecra notebook has a Matshita DVD/CDRW CD ROM drive, but when I
tried to burn an ISO file of some 760MB onto a Tevion DVD + RW disc in the
tray, using several free burning progams, including 'Burn4Free', 'DVD
Shrink', and 'ExpressBurn Plus', they all aborted the burn, with messages
such as "medium not present", or "Put a disc in the tray". Does anyone have
an explanation for this refusal to burn, and a solution to the impasse? I'd
be grateful forany insights.

Thanks,

Ron Smith
Ron Smith

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