OverCoat
11-14-2007, 07:09 AM
This is a hard problem to google solutions for, and kind of an odd one to explain, so I'll leave the comprehension up to human understanding instead of some keyword-based chaotic sentence.
Okay, so I've had this fancy shiny useless 16x dual layer DVD-RW drive for a few years, and I'm finally fed up with it and I want to either get it replaced or fix it. The problem is as follows:
Watching "My Computer" as I insert a disc. With no disc in the drive, it displays correctly as a DVD-RW. Once I actually insert a DVD-R disc in the drive, it suddenly changes into a CD-ROM drive, therefore confusing the fuck out of both me and Nero. The history of this drive is a weird one. I've had it since 2004, and it's never been able to burn anything. Not even a CD, though I have burned a few movies with a strange trial version of NeroVision a few times, though it would have a lot of errors and I'd go through a few discs before a successful burn. However, it does play back both CD and DVD formats. It's a "Philips DVD-+RW DVD8631," and a quick google search registers complaints for this shitty drive all across the board.
As a temporary solution I've been burning files to DVD across the network on another computer. HOWEVER - and this is what confuses me - the owner of this computer [my mother, of course] got rid of the software I was running [legal copy of Nero 5.5... they won't let me upgrade to 7 for some reason, but that's another story] which did actually work before, and then she replaced it with a fucking trial version of 7... which I ended up not really liking, though she needed it for some damn thing... anyway, the trial version dried up, so I tried reinstalling Nero 5.5. Installation successful, but then that schizo drive issue started happening with her computer! So now I'm stuck with no DVD burner at all, so I can't fucking back up my files for the foreseeable future.
My question is: Can I get WinXP to stop changing the drive functionality?
I'm not sure when it started, and I'm thinking it could be some Microsoft-injected anti-piracy method gone horribly wrong. I wonder if I can burn DVDs under Ubuntu. But then again, how would I get the files off an NTFS drive without leet linux skills?
Please help?
Okay, so I've had this fancy shiny useless 16x dual layer DVD-RW drive for a few years, and I'm finally fed up with it and I want to either get it replaced or fix it. The problem is as follows:
Watching "My Computer" as I insert a disc. With no disc in the drive, it displays correctly as a DVD-RW. Once I actually insert a DVD-R disc in the drive, it suddenly changes into a CD-ROM drive, therefore confusing the fuck out of both me and Nero. The history of this drive is a weird one. I've had it since 2004, and it's never been able to burn anything. Not even a CD, though I have burned a few movies with a strange trial version of NeroVision a few times, though it would have a lot of errors and I'd go through a few discs before a successful burn. However, it does play back both CD and DVD formats. It's a "Philips DVD-+RW DVD8631," and a quick google search registers complaints for this shitty drive all across the board.
As a temporary solution I've been burning files to DVD across the network on another computer. HOWEVER - and this is what confuses me - the owner of this computer [my mother, of course] got rid of the software I was running [legal copy of Nero 5.5... they won't let me upgrade to 7 for some reason, but that's another story] which did actually work before, and then she replaced it with a fucking trial version of 7... which I ended up not really liking, though she needed it for some damn thing... anyway, the trial version dried up, so I tried reinstalling Nero 5.5. Installation successful, but then that schizo drive issue started happening with her computer! So now I'm stuck with no DVD burner at all, so I can't fucking back up my files for the foreseeable future.
My question is: Can I get WinXP to stop changing the drive functionality?
I'm not sure when it started, and I'm thinking it could be some Microsoft-injected anti-piracy method gone horribly wrong. I wonder if I can burn DVDs under Ubuntu. But then again, how would I get the files off an NTFS drive without leet linux skills?
Please help?