The darndest thing is happening

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#1

Hello to you all. I have a question that I can’t seem to find an answer to and I’ve been digging believe me. Figgured some of the sharp folks here might know and I thought the newbie forum should be where this newbie should start.

So I get this nice new Dell Inspiron E1405 laptop recently. Great to have a fast new machine ya know? Anyway, we had been backing up our collection of DVDs with no problems on the office HP machine using DVD shrink and CloneDVD2. So I start to do this job on the laptop and of course, no problem doing it and I pop the DVD into the home DVD player and boom, I have a movie. But the funny thing is, the back up copy won’t play on the laptop. I don’t care what program I try to run it in and I’ve tried a few, it simply won’t play. Beats me why as you would think if my 3 year old home DVD player plays them then certainly my bad ass new laptop should. Anybody have any clues at all? I’m sure stumped. Thanks ahead folks! :iagree:

#2

You could try different media and formats.

For example, try Verbatim DVD+R and DVD-R disks. Some drives handle + media better, others handle - media better.

If you have a drive that can do Bit Setting, you could get a DVD+R and bit set it to a DVD-ROM and see if that works as well. Some drives handle that ok too.

I’ve had my best luck with Verbatim DVD-R disks, but of course, with differing hardware, different formats may work better for you.

Good luck.

#3

Read somewhere on here that some writers will not play their own disks, but will play other writers disks. I think this was -R they were talking about. See if it will play in your friends computer. If it does then try a +r or vice versa. I also have a writer that wont play its own -R but is no problem since I have several.

#4

Hey thank you gents! I’ll take the -R into the office tomorrow and see if it plays on my dell desktop. I bet it will though. In the meantime I’ll try some +R on the laptop and see if that works. Merry Christmas!

#5

Happy Holidays!

#6

If u can see with “explore” option some files on the dvd media that means u only have a software problem , if u cannot that measn u might have a media/ drive problem

#7

Ok well, I can see the “audio” and “video” files on the DVD in explore. So I have a problem with Shrink and DVD Clone?