Pioneer DVD-Recorder won't recongize DVD

[spacesurfer]

Need some help folks, if anyone can take a shot.

I have a Pioneer DVR-106D DVD Recorder (4x speed). I'm trying to copy a DVD and it won't recognize it. The source DVD is not an original. It is made by Memorex and is a DVD-R. Now, this DVD is part of a series of DVD's. I have successfully copied the same Memorex type using Roxio Disc Copier 6.0

Since I only have one DVD player, Roxio copies an image to my hard drive, then I insert a blank one and it burn it on that.

Funny thing is I copied 10 Memorex DVD and got to 11 and won't even recognize it. It just does nothing at all, not even a green light saying it's trying to read it.

I put it in another computer and it reads fine and plays fine.

I tried to capture an image in the other computer but half way, it said this track or title is copyrighted.

What could be the issue?

[puntoMX]

Try to clean the lens, other then that; just a "less good" copy .

[oioldman]

have you enough free HDD space for the backup image to be created so it can be burnt?

can you read that memorex dvds data with explorer? if not that could be your problem and not your media or the drive

[spacesurfer]

@ puntoMX: I think the DVD is clean - I can read it with my DVD player and my second computer that has a DVD player (not a recorder). It plays well so it's a good copy.

@ oioldman: I have enough HDD space for twenty DVD images (using my second 200 gb HDD for temp files which is nearly empty. And reading the Memorex DVD with explorer - there's the issue, in computer with the DVD-recorder, explorer won't even recognize that the DVD is there - no sign that the recorder is even trying to recognize it, but the second computer with the DVD-ROM drive can read it just fine!!!

I'm stumped.

[nmX.Memnoch]

The early Pioneer burners were pretty picky about media. There's probably an imperfection in the disk that prevents that particular drive from reading it.

That 106 is what? About 3 years or so old now? I've got a A08 (retail version of the 108) that's about 2 years old so that sounds about right. The upside is that DVD burners are cheap now so you can get a newer drive to try that. It'll also be a lot faster than the 4X you're dealing with now.

[oioldman]

i'd agree with mmx and say the drive is being picky, can you get the creator to reburn at slower speed to reduce change of "dodgy" burn

[spacesurfer]

i'd agree with mmx and say the drive is being picky, can you get the creator to reburn at slower speed to reduce change of "dodgy" burn

Humm, I mentioned that this particular burned DVD media is part of a series and I have been able to read the 6 DVD's of this particular brand media (Memorex) and I burned them onto a different brand successfully.

It's the 7th and 8th that's not being read by Pioneer.

I'm doubting that it's being picky about the media.

I will have to find someone else with a burner and see if they can read these two.

[spacesurfer]

OK, I think I solved my problem with a work-a-round.

I used USBASPI.sys to load a FAT32 external hard drive in DOS and used ATAPI???.sys and SHUCDX.exe to load my DVD-ROM on the computer that can read the DVD. Then I copied the .vob files from DVD to hard drive that are not readable in windows. they copied successfully.

I compared the size and they match perfectly.

Now, I'm making a DVD out of the audio_ts and video_ts folders.

Then I'll transfer it to computer with DVD recorder to burn it.

Whew!

Edited April 29, 2006 by spacesurfer

[spacesurfer]

Since Clone DVD couldn't read the DVD saying track may be copyrighted, I wonder if copyright works in DOS mode?? I was able to copy the files to hard drive from DOS (very slowly).