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Will there ever be faster CD and DVD discs and writers?
I was thinking about the fact that in the last years I have never seen CDs and DVDs supporting writing/reading speeds higher than 52X and 16X, respectively.
Is this a commercial choice (i.e. ...
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Burning mutiple discs at the same time
I'm trying to "mass produce" a DVD so I thought that by hooking up multiple burners to my computer and running multiple instances of Imgburn I would be able to reduce the amount of time I spent ...
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CD/DVD burn error in ImgBurn and Nero
I am getting the errors shown below when I try to burn a CD/DVD on my DVD writer. I am seeing this error for every CD/DVD I try to burn. I am not able to write any CDs or DVDs using ImgBurn. The burn ...
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Cannot write DVDs anymore, but can read them and write CDs
I'm stumped. I used to be able to write to DVDs and now I can't. I've tried different media (Memorex and Imations) I've tried different drives (internal and external) and even different OS's (Windows ...
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DVD drive doesn't recognize blank dvds only!
My dvd-rom works fine because I can play dvds on it, however when the dvd is a blank one the drive refuses to recognize it. So I can't burn dvds anymore because the drive shows up as empty in my disk ...
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High-end CD/DVD burners?
Do such things exist? I wouldn't mind paying $100 to $200 for one, but it must:
Have a very fast spin-up to ready time (less than one second)
Have an even faster dismount time (say, half second)
Can ...
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Unable to mount DVDs on Gentoo
I'm unable to mount any dvd on my HP 6735s laptop running Gentoo (with combined stable (+) and testing (~) ebuilds). Here's everything that I can come up with:
$uname -a
Linux aiur 2.6.32.6-aiur-r5 #...
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LG DVD writer shows Bluebirds application software everytime
I bought 4 new LG DVD writers and all four writer shows blurbirds.exe named application inside it. EVen if i insert any cd or DVD it won't detect anything but shows thosde 4 files
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what should i ...
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Recover badly recorded DVDs
A few years ago (2003-2005) I bought a Sony USB external DVD recorder for my Dell laptop and I used it to burn a lot of discs. Much later, when I tried to use one of these discs, I realised that I ...
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Slot load DVD burner options for standard desktop case
I need a new DVD burner (internal) for my father-in-law's computer. He's apparently broken the current one - he forgot to push the tray back in after doing something and hit it with his chair.
Given ...
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How to check DVD integrity at max read speed of DVD writer
I need to check the integrity of burned DVDs so that I can be sure about my backed-up data.
I use DL-DVDs to take the backup. Earlier I used VSO Inspector software for the same but the day I ...
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Is there a lifespan for a dvd rom drive?
Specifically a liteon dvd multi recorder. Which can burn and read dvd's.
Is there a specific number of burns which you can use? And after that, the burner will no longer work?
Do you know of any ...
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How can I troubleshoot a slow DVD writer?
I have a Thinkpad t60 - 15". It comes with a Matshita uj-842 DVD-ram drive.
When writing to a DVD, it settles at 2x speed. Research has shown me that this is not an uncommon problem. Unfortunately, ...
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DVD-RW Drive not recognizing a DVD+R disc
I am having trouble burning DVD+R disc's. My OS is vista and i have used this burner and these same discs in the past. I haven't had the need to do so in months and now that i come back to create ...
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