Got you, I was confusing dual layer with dual sided.
Apparently it also depends on if you are using -r or -rw DVD disks for
recording.

http://dvr.about.com/od/dvdrecordabl...dlvsdouble.htm


"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote in message
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Dual layered is what I think you mean. Some commercial film DVDs were
dual sided when they first ccame out, widescreen on one side and standard
pan and scan on the other.

However, the optical drive doesn't care, it can't read both sides of a
disk at once.
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Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/windows

"Curious" wrote in message
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I thought that commercial DVDs were two sided.
"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote in message
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Does the optical drive read ANY disks? Is it a CD burner or DVD burner?
If it's a DVD optical drive, will it read one or the other?

Chances are the laser is dirty, either use a CD cleaning kit, or replace
the drive. There are two lasers in a DVD drive, one for the CD side and
one for the DVD side. If the drive will read either CD or DVD (but not
both) then one of the lasers has died.
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Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/windows

"Dante" wrote in message
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When I try to open a disk, the driver ejects it and it says please
insert a
disk into drive. I tried uninstalling and installing the CD RW DRIVER,
but
it still doesn't work. How can I fix this