can my drive burn dvds

for the burner. Right-click on My Computer, select Properties. Select the Hardware tab, then Device Manager. Expand DVD/CD-ROM drives. If there is a yellow question mark on one of them, then you need to find the driver/s. You can probably find them at the manufacturer's website. Which I think is here:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/5lokqo

You must set the region for the drive corresponding to the area you are in which will limit the movies that will play on that drive. Once the region is set, it should act normally for your DVD software. Please note, you can only set the region 5 times. So, set it and leave it alone. Don't go fiddling with it, or you'll disable the works.

More here....

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f88/matshita-uj-812-a-101267/

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You have a DVD ROM Drive which can read DVDs & CD's but not burn them.

While I may be wrong here as Panasonic doesn't supply a lot of Data on their drives and the UJ Series of Panasonic Optical Drives are all Slim Line Blue Ray Drives but as they only list the 815 version on their complete list and no mention is made of the 812 that may be incorrect. However the UJ Series is restricted to Blue Ray and the DVD Type should have a Model Number starting with SR.

Look here for a full listing of all Panasonic Drives ever made well at least according to Panasonic.

http://tinyurl.com/6anhn9

But as the listed model doesn't appear here look at the front of your DVD Drive and if it says DVD Rom it is a Reader and can not burn/record any DVD Media. If it says DVD R RW it is a Recorder which can burn DVD & CD's.

It may also be a Combo Drive which can read DVDs but only record CD's so if that is the case it will say DVD ROM and CD R on the front of the drive. If the lettering has worn off there you can open the case unscrew the drive and look at th sticker on the top of the drive to see what it actually i. The same designations will appear on the sticker as on the Front of the drive.

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