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I have a pioneer A04 DVD burner,in windows 2000.
It just work like a cd and do not reconozed the DVD media
What can I do?
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Can you look at the contents of a standard Movie DVD? If
you can't read a standard Movie DVD, your drive might be
bad.
Has this drive ever worked? Is it brand new?
Here's some things to try:
- Update the drive with the latest firmware.
- Update W2K with all the latest patches, although this
may cause you other problems when you try to burn
anything.
- You should be using only DVD-R and DVD-RW media in the
drive.
- Does W2K recognize the drive as a Pioneer drive in
Device Manager?
- Make sure there is nothing in the BIOS that could be
messing with you, I normally set everything to AUTO for
the drives and let the BIOS figure out what they are.
- You might try putting the drive on it's own IDE chain
as the primary wiht no slave. Doubt this will do
anything, but I've seen stranger things.
- You might want to also delete the drive in device
manager, reboot and let plug-n-play re-recognize the
drive in case somkething got screwed up the first time
around.
I have an A03 on a W2K machine and have had no problems
ever reading DVD media, problems writing, but that's a
Veritas/MS incompatibility that I'm working on right now.
Good Luck,
Greg
