Hey so I just bought a cheap CD/DVD drive for my computer, a Samsung SH-S222A. I have a butt-load of Verbatim 4.7G DVD-R discs that my stock drive wouldn't detect. This new drive can; but when I attempt to burn any type of data, music, or video, im told that "Windows encountered an error when attempting to copy this file". I've tried good old copy and past, as well as downloading an application and neither work; my driver is up to date as well. Could the issue be the discs?
Can the new drive successfully read / play DVD-movies, music cd's, and read data DVDs? If it can't, there could be a problem with the drive or with the software driver. Does the device manager show a problem for the device when you view it? Its also very possible that the disks are damaged in someway that you are trying to burn to. Have you also tried right clicking the file, send to, DVD/CD RW drive to see if they will burn that way?
That was a good idea, but Send To didn't work either. Device Manager reads it as functional, with up to date (albeit somewhat old) drivers. And the drive itself can read discs perfectly fine. I used the discs on a laptop and they worked perfectly fine, the system formatted them to UDF and they accepted files and wrote them. However my system can't read UDF, so instead of the "Windows can't copy these files" error message, I get the "Windows can't read this format" message. So the discs are working, and my drive is working; Do I need an application to format the discs? edit: Just used PowerISO to write a 2.8G file, it managed to get all the files on, but when it was finalizing the burn it said "burn failed". However, all the files are on and in working order; So I guess I can burn things now, but why is my system struggling so hard?
