Samsung TS-H552B DVD-RW Problems - new problem

**CeeBee** · December 29th, 2004, 08:16 AM

I believe Samsung drives come bundled with Nero.. try using it.

**trevethen** · December 29th, 2004, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by CeeBee

I believe Samsung drives come bundled with Nero.. try using it.

Thanks to all for your replies and help. I now have it working, but I will explain how.

As this DVD-RW was OEM, there was no software with it.

I now know that MS XP sp2 will not write to a DVD.

I also contacted Samsung, and this is their reply :-
"The minimum requirements are a Pentium IV 700Mhz with 256RAM !
WE even recommend to uses the drive in combination with a Pentium IV 2Ghz 256 RAM memory. Based on your system information it is not very likely your drive will perform (well). Please try your drive on a PC thatmeets the suggested requirements."

My Pentium 3 runs at 450MHz.

Another suggestion was to download a burning program such as Nero, or
Freeware. As a start, I went with freeware and downloaded "Burn4Free CD & DVD 1.0.5" from www.download.com, and was able to burn my DVD with no problems.

So, all ends well. Many thanks. I will be buying a proper burning program such as Nero.

**maj2k5** · January 8th, 2005, 04:53 PM

hi i have the same problem can you tell me how did you get it to work i can't read blank disc.

**Archer** · January 8th, 2005, 05:19 PM

Hi maj2k5 you might be better starting a new thread listing a detailed description of your problem along with you hardware to save confusion.

**trevethen** · January 9th, 2005, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by maj2k5

hi i have the same problem can you tell me how did you get it to work i can't read blank disc.

"Confus-ed" said "the built in service in xp which is just for CD burning".

It would write to CD but would not read or write to DVD.

I downloaded "Burn4Free CD & DVD 1.0.5" from www.download.com, and the Samsung burner worked OK. Since then I have put Nero on the computer, but as yet have not used it.

A reply came back from Samsung themselves, that said, and I quote "The minimum requirements are a Pentium IV 700Mhz with 256RAM !
WE even recommend to uses the drive in combination with a Pentium IV 2Ghz 256 RAM memory. Based on your system information it is not very likely your drive will perform (well). Please try your drive on a PC thatmeets the suggested requirements."
It is working well at 450MHz.

regards,
Philip.

**maj2k5** · January 9th, 2005, 08:18 AM

hi i have used nero and burn4free but when it has done burning the disc, the disc still is blank?? i have a 600mhz computerbut with 64mb ram.

**confus-ed** · January 9th, 2005, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by maj2k5

hi i have used nero and burn4free but when it has done burning the disc, the disc still is blank?? i have a 600mhz computerbut with 64mb ram.

Mmm you know that bit archer said about 'detailed' ? Well don't ignore that bit like you did the bit that said 'start a new thread' or no-one can tell you why