New PC/ Old Blu-ray drives / Won't perform burn

Wyatt-Boatright wrote on 1/4/2024, 10:56 AM

Hello! I recently got back into this and got DVD Architect recently installed on a new machine. The machine doesn't have traditional optical drive bays but I was able to connect two old desktop internal drives to a SATA and power cable from the motherboard. Windows says all possible drivers are already installed; however, I can't get either of them to burn a blu-ray movie. The LG rewritable BR drives were manufactured in:
- 2008: Runs ROM BR discs fine; Architect can recognize the drive; will not burn for Architect; will not burn for NERO data discs
- 2012: Runs ROM BR discs fine; Architect can NOT recognize nor burn with; WILL burn data discs for NERO

Am I just simply on a fool's errand trying to make these work and is there no hope in making them compatible in light of their age and do I just need to break down and get a new production BR burner?

Or are there resources left untapped that I'm forgetting that I need to leverage/ download for these to work?

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Robbie wrote on 2/3/2024, 11:27 PM

I'm probably a little late but I've never burned DVD or Bluray directly from DVDA. Rather, I've had DVDA prepare the disc files and save to the Hard Drive and then burn using the free and much more reliable ImgBurn program https://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download Nero may also work. (DVD will create an Iso file for BR or Audio_TS and Video_TS folders fo DVD)

Cheers, Robbie

EricLNZ wrote on 2/4/2024, 1:56 AM

@Wyatt-Boatright I use an external ASUS Blu-ray burner for my occasional Blu-ray iso files produced by DVDA7, which I burn with Nero. External burners are inexpensive and will save you the frustration and time of trying to get your old internal burners to work externally.

Or you could also go searching the net to see if there's a technical solution out there somewhere.

Dexcon wrote on 2/4/2024, 4:17 AM

My opinion only, chances are that the firmware for the two older burnersaren't Wndows 11 compatible (assuming that the new computer's OS is Windows 11). It would be worthwhile checking the burner's support websites to see if there are any firmware updates - and drivers as well just to make sure that the drivers installed by Windows are in fact the latest drivers.

When getting a burner-less computer several years ago, I did the same as EricNZ and got an ASUS external burner (connected by USB) and it's worked fine with both W10 and W11 (thus far with W11 anyway) the few times that I've needed to use it.