Xen Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 Ok first of all let me say that I am a complete noob to burning anything. I dont know anything about it and am having trouble learning how to burn. I have gone to a lot of sites and I have downloaded Daemons Tools, DVDDecrypter, and ImgBurn. I want to put this file onto a Sony DVD+RW. Im not sure what I did wrong but I cant write the file to the disk. At the bottom of the ImgBurn window it says "Device Not Ready (Medium Not Present)". Can someone here help me? Im not even sure if im using the right file. There is a WinRar Archive folder in the folder which I cant open as well as a MDS file. Which one should I be burning?
cornholio7 Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 do you have a dvd burner? can you post a log please?
Xen Posted February 9, 2007 Author Posted February 9, 2007 Im pretty sure I have a dvd burner. The log says 17:19:38 ImgBurn Version 2.1.0.0 started! 17:19:38 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) 17:19:38 Initialising SPTI... 17:19:38 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... 17:19:38 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD-ROM/CD-RW!
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 'Medium Not Present' = No disc in the drive. Put a disc in it and make sure it's one the drive actually supports. Lots of people buy DVDs and expect them to burn in their CD burners - they of course, will not! (That's what corny is hinting at in his post above) EDIT: No you don't have a DVD burner, just a CD burner. If you want to burn DVD's you'll need to buy a new drive.
cornholio7 Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 by your log , it looks like you have a combo drive, it can read dvd's but only burn cd's, you can buy a dvd burner pretty cheap these days, maybe you could take the combo drive out and install a dvd burner? EDIT: you beat me to it boss
Xen Posted February 9, 2007 Author Posted February 9, 2007 About how much would it cost and is there a place with good tutorials on how to install a new drive?
cornholio7 Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 about 400 danish kroner for a cheap one , is your pc a laptop or desktop? http://www.pcworld.com/video/id,351-page,1-bid,4/video.html theres a video showing how to install a dvd on a desktop here
Xen Posted February 9, 2007 Author Posted February 9, 2007 Its a desktop and do you know what that would cost in American dollars?
cornholio7 Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 http://www.meritline.com/lg-gsa-h22n-18x-dvd-drive.html
Xen Posted February 9, 2007 Author Posted February 9, 2007 Ok well after watching that video I have decided that the best way for me to do this would be to buy the drive cornholio7 suggested then going to a store to have it installed. Thanks for your help.
lfcrule1972 Posted February 9, 2007 Posted February 9, 2007 It really isn't hard to swap out a drive and install a new one, even I can do it !! The hardest bit for me is getting the bloody case open every time
Movie Junkie Posted February 10, 2007 Posted February 10, 2007 It really isn't hard to swap out a drive and install a new one, even I can do it !! The hardest bit for me is getting the bloody case open every time Why don't you just leave the case open? A SHORT STORY A forum member is at his computer. He is sitting there typing a post in the ImgBurn forum... After which... After which... After which... After which... Let's all try to guess which member this is.
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