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thanks. i was doing a yahoo search on my gca-4040n burner trying to figure out if it supported changing the booktype setting and came across y'all, so i thought i'd register. i'm not completely computer illiterate, but i don't pass up an opportunity to get help from where i can. and if i can relay info from another source to help out, that's just a bonus give me a holler if LG ever gets around to supporting changing the booktype setting on the 4040n burner to make it more compatible with household dvd players thx

if there was a way to change the booktype setting to write the dvds as dvd rom, i would recommend that. i did that on my desktop's lite-on burner, and it changes the dvd +r booktype to make regular dvd players think the dvd +r is a dvd rom so it is more compatible. i don't think you can make this change on this drive, at least i haven't found anyone with the information, yet. i have the gca 4040n in my laptop, and it is much quicker than the desktop (laptop cpu is 2.66 ghz, desktop cpu is 800 mhz) i use dvd shrink and dvd decrypter for all my backups with the gca 4040n and i have had no problems at all with dvd +r, the gca 4040n is much less picky with blank dvd +r media than the lite-on burner is. pretty much every type of blank dvd +r i have tried has worked in the 4040n. for your problems, i would suggest getting good dvd +r media, preferrably something made in japan or singapore, find dvd identifier on the web and download it and check your media, if it is cmc-xxx-xxx it is most likely crap. do a yahoo search for how to find good dvd media, or search in this and other dvd forums you can't use dvd -r in the 4040n, so spend the money for decent media like ritek or verbatim dvd +r i would also suggest trying to use dvd shrink and decrypter together and see if that solves your problem of dvd +r working to backup.