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My External DVD WRITER will not play or burn DVD's but will play CD's and CDRW's
I currently have a new laptop which came with a CDRW/DVD rom this drive is in working order but i need to back up home movies so i bought a DVD RW encased in an external box connected though USB 2.0 the laptop recognises the DVD WRITER and i can play CDS and burn CDRW and even format then but when i try to load a dvd it tells me to insert media. I found a firmware update on the website but this did nothing can anyway help me resolve this annoying problem. The DVD RW is a BENQ model DW822A, i am on windows XP SP2 and have no other hardware issues
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Yes i have this software it came with the DVD WRITER also included was Sonic Record Now this is the programme i use to format drives.
Did you get an installation disk with the external device?
Not the buring software the drivers, you will to install them in order for it to work...
good luck to you
pjcrooks2000
Not the buring software the drivers, you will to install them in order for it to work...
good luck to you
pjcrooks2000
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Yes i got a disk and installed the drivers but it was for windows 98 after looking around the disk i saw the drivers for windows xp and installed these but to no avail this do not repar the problem. The device works as a cd rom drive and cdrw drive just not as a dvd writer or dvd rom
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in the case you have used more usb devices, you can delete them in the device manager, after clicking the "show hidden devices", and reboot; they will be recognised
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Ok removed drivers rebooted machine and installed drivers sstem found dv writer as it did before and when i tried to format a dvd rw disc it said it had completed so i tried to burn one of my file onto the dvd and this said completed however when i put the disc in the drive it would not open so it is not writing disks of some sort however will still not play dvds even though i have an encoder installed. I saw on another forum that there a 4 springs inside the dvd drive that may be mis alighned does anyone know about this i was told to stretch the springs. Please someone advise. Anymore ideas, it says its formatted and copied but it hasnt
i would return it asap, and i would not open it.
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Points awarded to pjcrooks2000 although the problem as not been solved i have now purchased a new dvd writer and guess what same happened taking them to shop to sort out it must be the USB connection, Thanks for the help pjcrooks2000 and all.
computergalaxy thank you very muchly :)
pjcrooks2000
pjcrooks2000
You can download this one : http://www.benq.com/storage/storage_dvdrw_dw822a_software.html