Dear forum,

I own a TR5 for some months now - yesterday it was time to write to a DVD for the first time.

Unfortunattely I was not successfull when using the preinstaklled Drag’n Drop CD+DVD software.

If I insert an empty DVD-R the drive just make some noise which stops whith a short “click”. When trying to write to the DVD I receive an error message which says that the media cannot be recognized.

I already updated the drives firmware.

Any ideas ?

Thanks for your help
Tobias

I had that problem with mine, it turned out that the DVD’s I was using were of poor quality. I got so fed up that I changed over to DVD-RW, that way if there was a problem I could erase the disk and start again. Also I suggest using Nero rather than the drag and drop software that comes with the TR.

Thanks for your answer - can you recommend any type of media ?

Godspeed is right on. Packet writing software like Drag n Die and Nero’s In CD Out the Other just suck. But Nero’s the best around and allows u to use another way to create data cds as well as any other type of writeable CD/DVD. just install it and use SmartStart. Make sure u get all the updates from the nero site after u install, and then off ya go, always using RW media for test burns.
good luck!

Ps all this hype about media is just that. I use the cheapest media I can find, and here it’s all knockoff chinese stuff anyway.  Prodisk, Ritek, Ricoh, whatever, it all works but i guess u can expect some percentage of failures due to media.  I’d say I am running at 99 percent right now with media.

For RW I use TDK DVD-RW, for single burn I use Ritek DVD-R

I have never had a Ritek stuff up on me…. though having said that I no longer burn on the TR5, I perfer to use Roxio Toast on the mac as it’s heaps easier IMOA.

Though having said that they so work fine in the TR as well.

[quote author=“2bmo3”]Dear forum,

I own a TR5 for some months now - yesterday it was time to write to a DVD for the first time.

Unfortunattely I was not successfull when using the preinstaklled Drag’n Drop CD+DVD software.

If I insert an empty DVD-R the drive just make some noise which stops whith a short “click”. When trying to write to the DVD I receive an error message which says that the media cannot be recognized.

I already updated the drives firmware.

Any ideas ?

Thanks for your help
Tobias

make sure the media is 2x compatible.  i recommend tdk or sony.

It seams it is not just a DVD writing problem but also a general problem with DVDs.

If I insert a CD everthing works well. But if inserting a DVD I seem to have problems.

I inserted a Video-DVD and my player did not recognize it - okay - might be a player that is not installed correctel ;o)

So I tried a Data-DVD from one of these gaming-magazines. But I am not even able to access this one.

I am a bit confused - is it possible that a CD/DVD drive can be defect and work with CDs but not with DVD ?

[quote author=“2bmo3”]

I am a bit confused - is it possible that a CD/DVD drive can be defect and work with CDs but not with DVD ?

yes it is, the web is full of examples of problems with various brands of drives.  Could be firmware or defect in the drive. Perhaps someone lucky to have the TR5 burner (or unlucky, not sure) will give u more pointers in that regard.  Good luck!
jigs

After reading through some pages in the internet I saw that Windows XP detects my drive as CD-ROM - so not being able to read a DVD is a logical consequence of that.

My next idea was to try if I can read the Sony recovery DVD which was impossible too.

After trying to boot from the recovery DVD unsucsessfully I decided to open a case at Sony support.

Thankls for your help.

Byebye
Tobias

[quote author=“pandadada”]I am having the same problem.

Is it because I am using +R DVDs ?

yep. the UJ-812 does not support +R.