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DVD Not Recognised

Karen23 · 2010-05-29 14:18:58

I'm looking for some help. I got a DVD from a friend which he tranferred from a tape that he recorded on his camcorder. The DVD works Perfectly on my DVD player but wont show up in the drive on my laptop. The drive sounds like its running but nothing comes up and when I go into the drive through My Computer it's blank as…

29-05-2010 2:18pm

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Karen23

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I'm looking for some help.

I got a DVD from a friend which he tranferred from a tape that he recorded on his camcorder. The DVD works Perfectly on my DVD player but wont show up in the drive on my laptop. The drive sounds like its running but nothing comes up and when I go into the drive through My Computer it's blank as if the drive is emty.
Can anyone help??
Thanks In Advance

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#2 29-05-2010 2:34pm

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Its a DVD-R disc , the laptop is an ACER but Im not sure of the model , my son has it at the moment so I cant check. But thanks for the info

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#3 29-05-2010 2:41pm

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The disc was probably not finalized, this can cause problems with non dvd burner drives

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#4 29-05-2010 2:43pm

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Sugarman , would that be the case even though other DVDs and CDs work?

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#5 29-05-2010 2:43pm

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What was on the original tape...sounds dirty

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#6 29-05-2010 3:26pm

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Ahem

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#7 02-06-2010 9:41am

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wanrek wrote: »

What was on the original tape...sounds dirty

:):)

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