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I just added a dvd burner. When i put in a dvd it reads and plays it. When I
put in a blank dvd it does nothing. It does not recognize a disk in it. I
tried several disks. It is a lite on dh20a4p. I am using windows xp service
pack 2. I did download VLC media player and dvd shrink for software to play
and burn.
thank you in advance. Phil
 
Phil said:
I just added a dvd burner. When i put in a dvd it reads and plays it. When
I
put in a blank dvd it does nothing. It does not recognize a disk in it. I
tried several disks. It is a lite on dh20a4p. I am using windows xp
service
pack 2. I did download VLC media player and dvd shrink for software to
play
and burn.
thank you in advance. Phil
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Windows XP contains no built in way of burning DVD discs. If you insert a
blank DVD, Windows XP does nothing. If you want to burn DVDs you have to
install a third party DVD burning utility.
 
I installed dvd shrink and avscopy as burning software. when i put in a movie
it plays the movie. why wouldn't it at least recognize a blank disc in the
drive when inserted?

thank you. Phil
 
Phil said:
I installed dvd shrink and avscopy as burning software. when i put in a
movie
it plays the movie. why wouldn't it at least recognize a blank disc in the
drive when inserted?
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It will only do this if the DVD burning utility modifies Windows behavious
to detect a blank DVD and offer a selection of things you can do with it. I
know DVDshrink doesn't do this. I am not familiar with avscopy but
modifying the windows autoinsert notify routine is by no means universal.
Can you actually burn a DVD with it?
 
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