[blackmystangel]

does compaq presario 5000 have a dvd burner? Can I burn dvd's on the DVD rom or the other one?

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Click start, click my computer see if any drive has RW

[Retired Tech]

Click start, click my computer see if any drive has RW

[blackmystangel]

It has one that says cd-rw drive (E:)

[Retired Tech]

Then you can burn to CDR / RW disc but not DVDR / RW discs

It is still worth checking if you can borrow a DVDRW disc and try to burn because sometimes drives do get incorrectly listed, it will say unsupported media or similar if it cannot use the disc

Click start, right click my computer, click properties, hardware, device manager, click + next to DVD/CD ROM Drives to see if it only shows CD RW Drives

[blackmystangel]

This came up compaq DVD- rom GD 8000 and Lite-on ltr -12102c

Edited by blackmystangel, 28 December 2005 - 10:08 PM.

[blackmystangel]

I try to put a dvd+r in the cd-rw and it just comes out.

[Retired Tech]

Looks to be CDRW

LITE-ON LTR-12102C LTR-12102C CD-R/CD-RW IDE

[blackmystangel]

So I can't burn dvd's?

[Retired Tech]

No, what are the numbers after Presario 5000

[blackmystangel]

I don't see any numbers after 5000

[Retired Tech]

If it is a desktop then you can get a DVDRW Drive and install it in place of the DVD ROM Drive, although the DVDRW Drive will also record to CDR/RW Discs

Run through the upgrade options with them here

http://h20179.www2.h...2&lang=en&cc=us

At this point you only need to know the type of drives you can install because you will probably source them cheaper elsewhere

[blackmystangel]

Oh okay thanks though! Do you think I can burn any type of video clip using a cd-r? Will it work on the dvd player?

[Retired Tech]

Clip being the operative word because of the file size and limitation to 700mb on a CDR disc

http://www.videohelp.com/

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