Having problems with your HP Pavilion DV6700Z Notebook ?
My HP notebook will not recognize dvd-r disk
\015 My computer reads all other disks DVD-rw and cd...writes to all of them except DVD-r. This problem occured only 2 weeks ago...work fine for the past 2 years...I have tried different kind of disks and even reformated my hard drive....I'm thinking if I had a bad drive then other disks would not work either...\015
Answers :
It's pointing towards a hardware problem. You can try updating your drive's firmware.
Check HP's support page to see if they have one available.
If not you can check the device manager details of your drive and find one floating around the net, I'm sure.
Check HP's support page to see if they have one available.
If not you can check the device manager details of your drive and find one floating around the net, I'm sure.
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