Finalising A Dvd

[Giggsie]

I have copied a DVD when I try to finalise it this comes up help please.......please insert an appendable data disc that is cd media or DVD write once

[TheChair]

At a guess you're trying to finalise an R/W DVD.

[Tuvok]

Lets assume you're not breaching copyright.

When you say you've copied a dvd do you mean exactly that? If so whatever program you've used to copy the dvd should deal with that for you.

What exactly are you doing - operating system, programs used etc.?

[Giggsie]

I copied a family party dvd for another family member. I used sonic program my DVD plus and a dvd r. Once disc is copied you go to finalise but that always happens now. Done it loads before just wondered what can be wrong now. thanks fo replying to me.

[Hypognosis]

This thread has a few clues

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060907174912AAbORqV

let us know if it helped.

You said "dvd r". Did you mean dvd+r or dvd-r (the exact type you are using might be relevant to the problem.

The person you are copying this for: did they request it to be in DVD-data form or conventional DVD (video) form? In other words, are they planning to play it on a computer or use their BlueRay/DVD player?

[Giggsie]

Sorry been having all sorts of other problems tonight. The disc i have used is DVD-R data/video which would be played on any DVD player. I thought this to be same as have used before.

[Hypognosis]

@Giggsie

As the yahoo thread says, it could be old hardware, unable to read -R discs or it could be the software is from the era before that format came to market.

You could try Start/Control Panel/Device Manager (or Hardware and Sound) and see if you can find the manufacturer and model number of the DVD drive, without having to dismantle the computer. Then google the make, model and the word "specification", to see if anything useful shows up.

However, easiest/cheapest/quickest fixes should be tried first. Disks are so cheap that you should just try burning to a fresh blank disk. It could be surface dirt or a scratch in a crucial place was locking out whatever happens during finalisation.

[Giggsie]

Hypognosis.....I have done 3discs and same happens with them all. I have done it so often before and same discs don't know why won't work. thanks for replying to me.

[Tuvok]

Are you doing a straight copy from disk to disk?

Or are you copying to an image file the burning the image?

I use Nero, CD Burner XP (does dvds as well) and Ashampoo programmes.

If you can create an image - preferably an ISO image, then try it with a different dvd burning programme and see if that works.

[Giggsie]

Tuvok yes I copied disc to disc one in computer and an external one. Normally very easy but just this time could not get it to finalise. thanks for replying to me.

[Tuvok]

https://cdburnerxp.se/en/home