Are you sure the drive is both a DVD writer and CDRW writer?  Some drives only read DVD's and write cd's.  Have you written a DVD before with it?  What happens if you insert a blank cd?
Paul Hachmeyer  
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Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:50 PM
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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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