If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate them. I have a bunch of DVD-r's that I set up a trade for. When I got to copying, about 1/3 of them my computer won't recognize as having anything on them. They used to work fine in my compter, still work fine in my dvd player and I ended up taking them to my boyfriend's house and they copied fine there. They are absolutely identical to the ones that will copy (except for thier content obviously) same brand, and I got them from the same person. I copied them at my boyfriends and took the copies home and the new copies aren't recognized either. ANyone have any thoughts why my computer is suddenly being a tv critic and only playing what it likes?

If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate them. I have a bunch of DVD-r's that I set up a trade for. When I got to copying, about 1/3 of them my computer won't recognize as having anything on them. They used to work fine in my compter, still work fine in my dvd player and I ended up taking them to my boyfriend's house and they copied fine there. They are absolutely identical to the ones that will copy (except for thier content obviously) same brand, and I got them from the same person. I copied them at my boyfriends and took the copies home and the new copies aren't recognized either. ANyone have any thoughts why my computer is suddenly being a tv critic and only playing what it likes?

Looks like you may need to clean the dvd recorder inside the comouter, it has a little scanning eye inside that reads the DVDs surface and if it gets even slightly dirty it may not read the dvd properly or at all, what you do is go get one of these CD/DVD cleaners at wal mart and pop it in give it a good cleaning and that should solve the problem, thats what i did with mine because of the same problem your having with yours, and the reason why it plays on your boyfriends is because his may not be dirty.

Would this expalin it even if only some of the dvds don't play?

It could be that the original recording of those DVDs are weaker on some and stronger signal on others, you may not see it but the scanning eye on the computer may detect it and it just may be that its reading the strong signals and can't read the weak ones, the cleaning method is only 1 solution that may fix the problem, the other thing is your computer may not even read weak signals, but my pc was doing the same thing and a cleaning helped it.