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by tkasya

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i was givin three memorex dvd-ram disks, and am having one heck of a time finding the drivers for them. wanting to give them to my mother, she has WAY too much stuff on her puter and too many people using it....so would like to use these three disks for their music and pictures to elevate some of the clogging on her puter.... any suggestions as to where to find them??
maria

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by tkasya

im sorry did i not use the proper 'computer' lingo or something?? was that really called for?

by dr dij

I think; elevate means increase height of, u prob meant alleviate.

or maybe he thought it funny since "Mom's" are likely to have "lots of clog" such as adware, spyware, etc.

when you said 'disks' do you mean disks or disk drives?

windows seems to usually find the dvd drives automatically I thought. surprized not working.

problems are usually in apps like Nero seeing drive. I got a dvd burner and now can't make cd-roms (makes dvd's just fine)

by exec135crewdog

careful what you wish for, slick. EVERYONE makes typos or mis-speaks eventually - with a name like gralfus, I'm sure you've made more than your share . . .

lighten up - its Friday for cryin' out loud!!

by stress junkie

There is an older technology called DVD-RAM. The disks are double sided and are contained in their own cartridge. Is this what you were given? Here is a page with some information:

http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/2003/DVDFormatsExplained.asp

You are unlikely to find a DVD-RAM disk or disk drive in a normal computer store. The DVD-RAMs were not all that popular, even in the enterprise business space.

Please provide more information about your disks/drives. I will look for your response. I'm sure that others here will also be willing to help out without being rude to you.

I hope that you have not been jaded by previous posts to your question. Many of us, myself included, can be a bit harsh to each other. Unfortunately sometimes a new member is mistakenly subjected to a harsh response.

by tkasya

they are the memorex dvd-ram disks, 4. something or other, dont have them in front of me right now, but yes they are the ram disks. i was givin a driver from my brother but it didn't work, and really can't afford the techie fees to bring it t the shop.....lost story short my mother has a foster home, 8 kids there now and all wanting ALL their cd's on the puter so they can mix and match and burn cd's.... any help would be great...
and no in general im not ever jaded by rudeness....can dish it out as well as can recieve it, just find it very uncalled for when someone's just asking a simple question...my opionion is if you dont like the question, then dont answer....

by stress junkie

... then it is probably not worth the trouble. DVD-RAM is like the 8 track tape of computer media. Even if you can find the drives to read the media they'll be expensive and they probably won't have drivers for Windows. You can easily purchase a nice DVD-RW drive for $50. I recommend any Sony DVD drive. The DVD-RW media is only $3 per disk, and that's the expensive disks.

I recommend just discarding the DVD-RAM.

by tkasya

we have a lot of blank media already, i guess what we are looking for is something to put all the music onto that is still accessable, our understanding of the dvd-ram disk is it works like a 31/2 floppy disk?? we burn a lot of cd's and are trying to find a way to get the music off the computer without having to have a million disks filled with songs...which is why we were hoping tha that the ram disks would work as they say they can hold 6hrs of stuff on em.... we have a cd and dvd burner on our computer and we use the nero program for burning.... should we still forgo the ram disk idea? we have like well over 10000 songs on our computer to remove.

by lhatcher

As the above post stated, Dvd Ram is worth little more than trash, so if you have a dvd burner just trash the dvd ram and go get yourself some DVD-r or DVD-RW.

by stress junkie

I think that a nice 400GB external hard disk with a USB connection would fit your mom's requirement. I recommend Maxtor or Seagate. I've had great experiences with those two brands. I hate Western Digital.

by rtviper

The not so popular RAM Disks, took a RAM drive to write to them. Your drive may not be a RAM Drive. Using a program such as Roxio, will let you read and write to CD's and DVD's as though they were hard drives, albeit slightly slower than a hard drive.

by tkasya

thanks for all the advice...thinking i am going to go the route of the external hard drive... cheaper and easier in the long run...again thank you very much
maria

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