shannong Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 my computer will not accept anything but cd-rw and after i burn they will not play in my cd player.They will only play in my newer cd players. If you have any suggestions how to fix please reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 If your drive is only accepting RW discs, then that is the problem. The drive itself Best thing would be to replace it with a new DVD-RW drive Failure to play on some machines is down to the fact that some machines just won't accept RW media - they want R only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn98109 Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Backing up what Daithi said - it takes a hotter laser to burn R than to burn RW. My first burner got to the point it would only do RW discs, and then to the point it was Read-Only. As Daithi said, time for a newer drive ... most of my burners were aquired used, but the one you have now may be a bit too used Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 my computer will not accept anything but cd-rw and after i burn they will not play in my cd player.They will only play in my newer cd players. If you have any suggestions how to fix please reply Your computer or Roxio software "will not accept anything but cd-rw" ? What Operating System are you running? How and in what software and named application are you trying to burn a CD-R and it will only burn a CD-RW? cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 my computer will not accept anything but cd-rw and after i burn they will not play in my cd player.They will only play in my newer cd players. Shannong, Because a drive has an RW in its description doesn't mean it can only handle RW discs. Is this what you've been told, or have you actually tried to write a CD-R disc? Can you tell us the make/model of your burner please? The easiest way is probably to go into Windows Device Manager and click the little cross alongside the DVD/CD-ROM drives item. It will expand to show you the details of your drive or drives, as in the screen clip below which has two drives. Would you tell us what is shown for your drive, please? As to the RW discs not playing in your older player, that's quite common. Rewriteable discs were developed after CDR discs, and a player needs a few cents worth of additional circuitry to be able to play RW discs. Newer players now have the additional circuitry as standard. Since we can't modify your old player, getting your burner to properly write CDR discs [if we can] should fix your problem. Brendon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shannong Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Shannong, Because a drive has an RW in its description doesn't mean it can only handle RW discs. Is this what you've been told, or have you actually tried to write a CD-R disc? Can you tell us the make/model of your burner please? The easiest way is probably to go into Windows Device Manager and click the little cross alongside the DVD/CD-ROM drives item. It will expand to show you the details of your drive or drives, as in the screen clip below which has two drives. Would you tell us what is shown for your drive, please? As to the RW discs not playing in your older player, that's quite common. Rewriteable discs were developed after CDR discs, and a player needs a few cents worth of additional circuitry to be able to play RW discs. Newer players now have the additional circuitry as standard. Since we can't modify your old player, getting your burner to properly write CDR discs [if we can] should fix your problem. Brendon what option do i go into to find device manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 Xp, right click my computer, properties, Hardware tab and then click device manager. Vista, right click my computer, properties, top left side Device manager. cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shannong Posted November 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Shannong, Because a drive has an RW in its description doesn't mean it can only handle RW discs. Is this what you've been told, or have you actually tried to write a CD-R disc? Can you tell us the make/model of your burner please? The easiest way is probably to go into Windows Device Manager and click the little cross alongside the DVD/CD-ROM drives item. It will expand to show you the details of your drive or drives, as in the screen clip below which has two drives. Would you tell us what is shown for your drive, please? As to the RW discs not playing in your older player, that's quite common. Rewriteable discs were developed after CDR discs, and a player needs a few cents worth of additional circuitry to be able to play RW discs. Newer players now have the additional circuitry as standard. Since we can't modify your old player, getting your burner to properly write CDR discs [if we can] should fix your problem. Brendon ok i was able to get into devise manager heres the info ASUS CD S480/AH LITE ON DVDRW SOHW-8325 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shannong Posted November 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 what option do i go into to find device manager ok i was able to get into devise manager heres the info ASUS CD S480/AH LITE ON DVDRW SOHW-8325 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sknis Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 ok i was able to get into devise manager heres the info ASUS CD S480/AH LITE ON DVDRW SOHW-8325 It is probably this drive which will write almost everything up to a DVD +DL disc. Is it an internal or external drive? Did you get it in the US? The one shown is an external but yours probably has the same capabilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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