Alcohol 120% Not Empty Disc - Club CDFreaks

CainStar · 22-05-2007

I think this has been answered before, but I could not find an answer.

I´m trying to make an backup of my C&C First Decade, but when I try to burn it to my Double Layer disc alcohol keeps telling me that the disc is not empty.

Now I know it is empty.

If anybody have any ideas please tell me.....getting little frustrated

**Arachne** · 22-05-2007

Welcome to the forum

Go into Alcohol settings, and under Emulation, make sure "Ignore Media Type" is not checked.

Hopefully that'll help the disc to be recognised as a blank one.

CainStar · 22-05-2007

Thanks for quick reply....but unfortenatly this didn't solve my problem....instead of saying 'Not an empty disc' now it tells me 'Not a Blank disc'.

I am paffled as you propably are

.

Any more ideas.

CainStar · 22-05-2007

Ps. My drive is Liteon LH-18A1P....which is suppose to burn everything....well except my house....and also it seem's not a single program indentifies my disc's as 8.5g. I have the latest firmware.

*phoenix* · 22-05-2007

Have you tried formating the disc ?

CainStar · 23-05-2007

Do you mean Erasing the dvd disc?
Or do you mean format in same sense as you had to do for old floppy disk's....if you mean this could you perhaps give small instruction since I have never done this nor do I know how to do that. I didn´t even know this is possible.

*zamiell* · 23-05-2007

Erase the disc using Full Mode inside Alcohol (under the File menu).

CainStar · 23-05-2007

Well now it's telling me that the disc is not RW, which it isn't just plain DVD+R DL(I knew this would happen).

I just don't know what could be wrong....this is what I get from alcohol CD/DVD Manager Image01, Image02, Image03.

Here's a link to the disc's which is bought Link

It even shows the media code correctly.
RICOHJPN D00

Any more Ideas?

*phoenix* · 24-05-2007

Ok real stupid question, have you tried another disc from those you bought, does it give the same error, Can you PM me your Alcohol system report as this might throw some light onto the problem.

CainStar · 24-05-2007

Well I don´t think this is just about alcohol.....every possible program I have tried gives me the same error....either it's about my drive or the disc's.

But I would like still thank all of you who have responded.

I think this threath can be closed.

22-05-2007	#1 (permalink)
CainStar New on Forum Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 6	Alcohol 120% Not Empty Disc <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> I think this has been answered before, but I could not find an answer. I´m trying to make an backup of my C&C First Decade, but when I try to burn it to my Double Layer disc alcohol keeps telling me that the disc is not empty. Now I know it is empty. If anybody have any ideas please tell me.....getting little frustrated

22-05-2007	#2 (permalink)
Arachne Senior Moderator & Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Keeping my media stash safe. Posts: 23,915	Re: Alcohol 120% Not Empty Disc Welcome to the forum Go into Alcohol settings, and under Emulation, make sure "Ignore Media Type" is not checked. Hopefully that'll help the disc to be recognised as a blank one. __________________ Current drives: Pioneer DVR-115D (1.06) + Optiarc AD-5170S (1.12) + Litey LH-20A1H (LL0D) + Samsung SH-S182D (SB06 RPC1) x2 + Litey SHM-165P6S (MS0R) + LG E10N (JE07) + BenQ DW1650 (BCDC) x2 + Litey SHW-1635S (YV6P) x2 + BenQ DW1640@164B (BEFB) + LG 4167B (DL13 TDB) + Samsung SH-S162L (TS08) + NEC ND-4551A (1.Z2) + LG GCE-8520B (1.00) + LiteOn SOHR-5239S (2S0B) Retired: LiteOn LDW-851@SOHW-832 + LiteOn SOHW-1693S + LG 4163B My Review PCs How to delete your upper and lower filters : How to check/enable DMA by Womble Click here to join cdfreaks.com and be part of our friendly community! The CDFreaks Distributed Computing Teams need YOU! Join the Team(s) and help save some lives! Read more here

22-05-2007	#3 (permalink)
CainStar New on Forum Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 6	Re: Alcohol 120% Not Empty Disc Thanks for quick reply....but unfortenatly this didn't solve my problem....instead of saying 'Not an empty disc' now it tells me 'Not a Blank disc'. I am paffled as you propably are . Any more ideas.

22-05-2007	#4 (permalink)
CainStar New on Forum Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 6	Re: Alcohol 120% Not Empty Disc Ps. My drive is Liteon LH-18A1P....which is suppose to burn everything....well except my house....and also it seem's not a single program indentifies my disc's as 8.5g. I have the latest firmware.

22-05-2007	#5 (permalink)
phoenix Alcohol Software Support Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Denmark Posts: 456	Re: Alcohol 120% Not Empty Disc Have you tried formating the disc ? __________________ "Alcohol soft.Co.Ltd" Admin forum.alcohol-soft.com

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23-05-2007	#6 (permalink)
CainStar New on Forum Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 6	Re: Alcohol 120% Not Empty Disc Do you mean Erasing the dvd disc? Or do you mean format in same sense as you had to do for old floppy disk's....if you mean this could you perhaps give small instruction since I have never done this nor do I know how to do that. I didn´t even know this is possible.

23-05-2007	#7 (permalink)
zamiell Alcohol Support Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 332	Re: Alcohol 120% Not Empty Disc Erase the disc using Full Mode inside Alcohol (under the File menu).

23-05-2007	#8 (permalink)
CainStar New on Forum Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 6	Re: Alcohol 120% Not Empty Disc Well now it's telling me that the disc is not RW, which it isn't just plain DVD+R DL(I knew this would happen). I just don't know what could be wrong....this is what I get from alcohol CD/DVD Manager Image01, Image02, Image03. Here's a link to the disc's which is bought Link It even shows the media code correctly. RICOHJPN D00 Any more Ideas?

24-05-2007	#9 (permalink)
phoenix Alcohol Software Support Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Denmark Posts: 456	Re: Alcohol 120% Not Empty Disc Ok real stupid question, have you tried another disc from those you bought, does it give the same error, Can you PM me your Alcohol system report as this might throw some light onto the problem. __________________ "Alcohol soft.Co.Ltd" Admin forum.alcohol-soft.com

24-05-2007	#10 (permalink)
CainStar New on Forum Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 6	Re: Alcohol 120% Not Empty Disc Well I don´t think this is just about alcohol.....every possible program I have tried gives me the same error....either it's about my drive or the disc's. But I would like still thank all of you who have responded. I think this threath can be closed.

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