DVD Reading Problems

[inzzane]

Hello All,
I recently had a problem with playing some burnt DVD's. Some would play, others wouldnt. Couldnt figure it out. Tried everything I could think of. Got me so mad I quit on it and picked up a Sony DRX-510UL DVD +/- R/RW.
Now I get this thing and put in my DVD's and once again no luck playing them. Even got the frmware upgrade and tried. But I know my DVD's work because I watch tem play on my buddies computers all the time. My old drive wouldn't even detect anything inserted in the drive. Now it detects, but wont play.

I continually get the following message:
"Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with windows."

What exactly could this mean...the other computers are windows xp based as well. Please help as I am totally confused.

[inzzane]

anyone?

[inzzane]

I have been told it may be a udf reading problem although i dont know where to get a udf reader/driver.

[J-Excel]

What media are you using? I had this problem with some Khypermedia DVD-Rs. You could even see areas on the disk where it didn't burn correctly.

[inzzane]

not sure about the media, I'm not even trying to burn. Just trying to play the DVD's on the drive. Have a bunch of DVD's but not all play.

I have noticed 1 program that detected a UDF file on the DVD, and detects the drive but then states that it is not a windows supported format. I believe it may be a udf reading problem, but dont know how to get windows to read a udf format.

[J-Excel]

My guess is it's a bad burn or bad media problem. One possible problem might be if they were burned with older versions of Nero. Nero didn't produce 100% compliant DVDs and caused problems in a lot of players.

[inzzane]

J-Excel, if it was a bad burn, how could my friends computers play them? I mean they run them as easily as any other DVD's with no problems, and are used all the time. I'm curious about this problem because one of the computers was purchased at the same time as mine and is almost identical. It plays them fine. Can a bad burn cause that? I really dont know much about DVD's but am having to learn because of this problem.

[maxr]

I too get this message.

I get it on any removable drive, including floppies.
I know the floppy, cdrom is okay, they are standard cdrom's and I can access them on my dual boot WinMe session, but get the error message on XP.

I suspect it is a registry entry that needs removing, but no luck looking on Microsoft's web site yet.

Let me know if you find a solution.

Max.

[maxr]

When I removed incd (part of Nero), then this problem went away!

Max.