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Why are my blank DVD's showing as.....
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 8:09 am
Posted by Scott Brown
(119 messages posted)
My blank DVD+R's (both Verbatim and Dynex) show up in my computer as 4.37GB discs,
yet my Fuji DVD-RW's show up as 4.38. This started after a format and reinstall
(done by choice), and is occurring both pre and post SP1. Prior to this, these same
blank discs would show as 4.38GB.
Anyone have a clue?
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re: Why are my blank DVD's showing as.....
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 8:15 am
Posted by Charlie Hadden
(854 messages posted)
It is just a matter of how the manufacturer of the disk prints his directory info
and company info on the disk. It could literally be a difference of 1 stupid byte.
When windows rounds things off. I really doubt that you will ever be writing a disk
down to the infinitesimally little last bit of the disk. More than likely you will
see that you are 100 meg or something big and use 2 disks or a DVD instead and never
notice.
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re: Why are my blank DVD's showing as.....
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 8:22 am
Posted by Scott Brown
(119 messages posted)
Wouldn't have asked if it hadnt made some issues. Nero defaults to a 4.37GB file
size to write to DVD when creating a disc. As these discs are now showing 4.37,
where they used to show 4.38, it is now forcing me to lower the video quality of
these DVD's (yes, all legal) because nero kicks these "smaller" discs out and says
"not enough space".
On Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 7:15 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:
>It is just a matter of how the manufacturer of the disk prints his directory info
>and company info on the disk. It could literally be a difference of 1 stupid byte.
>When windows rounds things off. I really doubt that you will ever be writing a disk
>down to the infinitesimally little last bit of the disk. More than likely you will
>see that you are 100 meg or something big and use 2 disks or a DVD instead and never
>notice.
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re: Why are my blank DVD's showing as.....
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 8:51 am
Posted by quick69gto
(840 messages posted)
Open Nero and go to File, Options, and click on the Expert Features tab.
Tick the box for Enable DVD overburning. It should be set to 4500 MB.
Good luck!
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re: Why are my blank DVD's showing as.....
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 9:00 am
Posted by Scott Brown
(119 messages posted)
Just did that, I'll report back soon and let you know if that fixed it..thanks!
On Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 7:51 am, quick69gto wrote:
>Open Nero and go to File, Options, and click on the Expert Features tab.
>Tick the box for Enable DVD overburning. It should be set to 4500 MB.
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>Good luck!
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re: Why are my blank DVD's showing as.....
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Posted by Scott Brown
(119 messages posted)
Worked perfectly! Thanks!
On Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 8:00 am, Scott Brown wrote:
>Just did that, I'll report back soon and let you know if that fixed it..thanks!
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re: Why are my blank DVD's showing as.....
Friday, March 21, 2008 at 8:06 am
Posted by Charlie Hadden
(854 messages posted)
It was not my intention to indicate that your problem wasn't valid or important.
I had, only what you had writte for information to work with. Glad you are up and
running.
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