I thought it would be a good idea to make a backup copy of the provided disc, I don't want it to get corrupted in any way and have to pay (I'm guessing) £100 or more for another.
I discovered when I put the disc into my PC that Honda use a Dual Layer DVD. What I could not discern was if the disk is a DVD-R or DVD+R. I'm guessing -R as +R is not an industry supported format.
Cad, good to know the back up will work. I haven't done mine yet, got the DL -R discs only to discover my top of the range Dell doesn't write to these discs. So I've now I'm waiting for an external DVD writer to arrive.
Backed up the Satnav DVD-ROM to -R DL blank DVD and the drive in the car accepts the copy no problem.
Minor point. As the back up was taking a while I went for a drive in the car while it was being done. After I got back I then put the disc in the car the Satnav wanted me to drive for a bit so it could work out where in the world it was. After about 15 seconds it displayed "United Kingdom".
i posted this in one of the lost posts, but has anyone tried having a stab at working out the file structure/formats, might be possible to work out how the POI's are held and then you can add your own from sites like pocket-world gps, i think beema drivers add POI's to their sat nav dvd's, and it wouldn't surprise me if the software is based on something similar like UNIX or Linux, just a thought only got an ES so can't look myself
I've tried Nero 6 and Sonic Record Now Plus on different drives. 2 of them wont recognise the Varbatim DVD -R DL. My Pc's at work will recognise the blank discs for writing and will read the Honda Original. but..
When it goes to start writing the image it comes up with an error stating that it can't start disc at once.. and doesn't try to write.
Will try another brand new disc to see if its the one faulty disc
An alternative might be to use something like dvd decrptyer to create an ISO of the disc and then try burning image to DVD??
Help I work in IT and this doen't make sense!
Chris
make sure you have lastest firmware for your drive if not try flashing it with the lastest firmware, worked for me when i couldn't read/write discs once
i buy all my backup copies of the latest sat nav disks from ebay.. it goes without saying i own all the originals... just saves you the time
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