Hello everyone,
I have a DVD+/-RW burner in my new desktop and DVD/CDRW combo drives in all my other computers. I bought the DVD writer for a couple reasons:
a) I thought the DVD burner would be a good option for doing backups by sharing folders on the network.
b) Some of the data sets I work with in my research (I’m a theoretical physicist) are too large to fit on a single CD.
When I burn a data DVD then put it in the drive on any of the other computers, it isn’t recognized. It doesn’t spin up, and Windows Explorer shows no media in the drive. It doesn’t do me much good to have backups that I can only read on one computer, or burn data sets that I can’t read in my laptop when I go to a conference.
The combo drives can all read and play DVD movies and DVD-format game disks…so I don’t see why they act so strangely with a data DVD I burned at home.
Is there some magic trick I’m missing here?
Thanks in advance for any and all tips.
John Huesman