I recently purchased some 4.7GB recordable DVD's to do some major back up burning, however when I insert the DVD into my drive it wont recognize them. Usually an autoplay notice comes up informing me that there is a empty CD in the drive but in this case the drive fails to recognize anything. PLUS when I go to My Computer and DOUBLE click on the drive it tells me that there is either no medium in the drive or that windows cannot recognize the format.
What does this mean and what can I do about it?If that is truly a CD Drive as you state it will NEVER recognize a DVD disc. You would need a DVD Burner and appropriate software to do this PLANNED work.Yeh, how can a simple CD drive recognize the wonder that is a DVD?dvd's are truly a wonder... bow to its shinyness...:-? How can DVDs only have 120 minutes on them while CDs have 70 ??that, my friend, is somthing i will never understand myselfQuote

that, my friend, is somthing i will never understand myself

im guessing that an 8 gig dvd would have 240 minutes, not sure... havnt used one b4, my dvd burner is capable of burning them... i think... and for the record, a dvd burner reads and writes almost every form of cd and dvd, i dont think they can burn dvd ram though, not sure about dvd rom either