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PC is treating DVDs as blank
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Having finally made it through the orientation material that can be done using the computer alone, I am working on the materials on the DVD-Rs. The problem arises when I insert the DVDs into my computer (Toshiba Satellite running Vista): After spending a LONG time with some kind of progress scanning the DVD-Rs, my computer launches the Burn A Disc wizard and prompts me to select a title and format for the disc, as if it were a blank disc waiting for data to be written to it.
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What I do understand about the situation:
- My hypothesis that my computer is treating the disc as blank is corroborated by the fact that both the My Computer icon desription and right-click menu item Properties describe it as having 4.37 GB of 4.37 GB free.
What I don't understand about the situation:
- Why this is happening
- What I can do about it
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Do you know what is happening?
- If so,
- - What am I doing wrong?
- - Is there any kind of workaround available?
- - - If there is a workaround, what is it?
- - - If tbere isn't any kind of workaround, how would I go about getting new discs?
- If you don't know what the problem is, is there any way I can get these materials in a different format (e.g., a series of CD-ROMs)?
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What you describe would be consistent with a blank disk. One other student has reported a similar problem, so it's not out of the question that this is the case.
I suggest the following:
1. Submit the Initial Lab Materials form once more, with your address. I'd include the URL but the server appears to be down right now. Also email me your address. I'll send another set of disks, and in the meantime we can try to figure out what's going on.
2. Check out the other disk. The one student who reported a blank disk 1 reported a working disk 2, and I haven't heard any reports at all about that disk.
You won't need the disks right away. But in the meantime, if our server comes back up soon, I could post a copy online. The problem is that without a pretty fast connection, download speeds for videos would be slow.
Now, it's still possible that your disk is OK. However neither disk will autorun. Did you browse your computer for the DVD drive (I never used Vista, but I believe you would have the My Computer icon under the Start button)?
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