Can't burn or copy DVD's

Hello,

Since a few days my girlfriend can't copy or burn DVD's anymore.
I'm not talking about copyright protected DVD's.
Even DVD Shrink doesn't work.
Windows opens up itself and tries to play the DVD while it is being copied and the copy process ends with an error message.
She uses Nero to burn. But again even copying the video folder doesn't work.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

 

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the tips.
I burned an avi file onto DVD- that worked fine.
I will try your suggestions and will let you know.

Cheers

 

The drive works fine and files stored on the Notebook can be burned.
They can't be copied since the Autoplay always starts.

The Autoplay fix doesn't recognzie the DVD writer since it is an external drive (connected via USB).

Uninstalling wouldn't probably work either I guess since it is probably located under the USB tab.

Do you or anyone else have other tips?

Thank you.

 

If the computer is running XP Professional and not XP Home Edition:

Start, Run, gpedit.msc

Navigate to:

Local Computer Policy
Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
System

Double-click on and Enable the policy "Turn off Autoplay "


For either XP Pro or Home, the same effect can be achieved with a registry edit.

Start, Run, regedit

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom

Find the value "AutoRun "
Right-click the value, Modify, and set its value from 1 to 0 (that is zero).

Reboot and test.

 

Thanks Bill, I will try it next week and will let you know if it worked.

Cheers

 

Hi Bill,

The registry change fixed it. Thanks heaps!

Cheers
Scirocco