I have burned DVD's in the past (over a year ago) without any problems. I just tried burning a DVD using software that I have always used, and the program writes a DVD to the DVD disk, but when you look at the disk details, it shows the written DVD having a remaining available capacity in the MB's vs GB's. The file being written is fairly small. The disk is a DVD disk with 4.77 GB capacity.
When I look at the written side of the disk, it looks like a majority of the disk surface has been written to. Previous burned DVD's, when looking at the written side show much smaller area written to, even though the file being written is significantly larger than the current file being written. I am suspecting that somehow that burner is treating the DVD disk as a CD disk rather that what it really is.
Within the last year, I had to replace the hard drive and using Western Digital software, created an system image and then transported the system image over to the new hard drive. Is it possible that the driver for the DVD drive has gotten messed up somehow, or settings changed. The computer otherwise works just the same as it did before I transported the system image file to the new hard drive.
The writer is the one that came with the computer (1525 Inspirion); HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-T40N ATA Device
The software that I am using to create the DVD and then burn it to the DVD writer is the same software that I have always used and the software settings are the same as all previous DVD's that I have created.
The original operating system for the computer was Vista, and a couple of years ago, was upgraded to Windows 7.
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