My burner will not burn in IDVD

Using IMovie I created a movie and sent it to IDVD to burn. The DVD player spits the disk out saying "Insert a recordable DVD disk." I have tried several different disks- Memorex DVD-RW 2x 4.7GB / or a TDK DVD-R 16x 4.7 GB and several others I have had around the house. They all get rejected. Is it my DVD burner or am I using the wrong type/speed DVD disks to burn my movie?

First, make sure your burner is clean; a Scotch CD Laser Lense Cleaner works well to make sure there isn't any dust on your lens. Don't get one with liquid solution.
You've tried several brands of blanks, and I assume you've had prior success with this software.

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So in desperation, I then shadowed the harddrive on my MSI machine and reformated and reinstalled Win XP. The drive will still not recognise DVD-RW. I also tried various combination of media. mucking around with the IDE BIOS settings, changing around the drive from master slave configs and have uploaded the latest drive firmware and motherborad firmware. I contacted Liteon technical support and they advised to remove the nforce MCP IDE driver in leiu of a default one, but im not sure that is possible not to mention it probabaly would comprmise system performance.
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Thx Wonkaboy.
Well I didn't roll back ( to an nvidia dirver ) I went back to standard dual channel IDE driver - the XP provided one and the burner started to work. phew! Albeit at 2x DVD-RW instead of 4x. Not sure why that is....
Then I thought what the heck I'll try the nvidia driver that I had installed on the machine before I wrote the original thread. And guess what it also works. Im not sure what happened. Maybe a dll was not installed or something. I have spent 2 days on and off with all sorts of variations of hardware configurations including an OS reinstall. Anyhow it's working now and thats
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This is funny. Not your situation, but as I was trying to help someone else, I came across this:
"To check the size of the normally invisible /Volumes directory on the active startup volume, open a new Finder window. Select the startup volume in the list at the left, then choose column view (the one at the right of the three views). From the Finder’s Go menu, choose Go to Folder, and paste in:
/Volumes
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I wonder if that's where your temporary file went. I hope this doesn't confuse you more. But remember I was talking about how if you burn a CD and it doesn't go through all the way, the burn file will stay around?
See if you can solve it with that.
Just for crediting purposes, the quote from above comes from:
http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=770243&page =0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=31&fpart=1

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I keep inserting a CD into my disk burn and I get an error message telling me
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Any solution to fix this please.

This is funny. Not your situation, but as I was trying to help someone else, I came across this:
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I wonder if that's where your temporary file went. I hope this doesn't confuse you more. But remember I was talking about how if you burn a CD and it doesn't go through all the way, the burn file will stay around?
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Are you getting any messages or warnings when you try? What systems are you running on each and what version of iDVD? Is it the same project that you tried to burn on each Mac? What brand and type of disk are you using? What burn speed did you try?
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D. What Theme was used
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My first problem was the stuck disk from the previous thread.
The instructions worked and the disk came out on start up.
Now the disk will not burn. The door opens on the yellow light , it pulsates for a while then the door closes. Then Nothing.
I burned several DVD recently and it has worked fine. I wanted to make a copy of a home movie I just burned. its the same batch of DVD-R disks.
JOHN

David:
I did as you suggested and it solved the problem.
I first downloaded and ran cleansweep, under batch I ran everything.
I am glad to have the program to clean my catch and other routine maintenance stuff.
Then I down loaded the easteregg at Jeff'c Mac Support Web site.
By the way the site has relocated and there is an auto transfer.
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I saved your instruction screen to my documents forlder for future reference.
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