Windowsxp Dvd Burn Limits

[paulfr]

I am having trouble burning 8.5G and 4.7G discs with my new External LG GSA5163G DVD RWriter.

At what point would I need additional SW to burn a 4.7G or 8.5G disc ??

What are the limits of drag and drop copying/writing in Windows ... anyone know ? I have SP2 installed so I should be up to date.

I have tried 3 different media mfrs and get these "cannot complete operation" or "a problem occurred during.... try again ?"

Thanks.

[paulfr]

Nevermind .... got it going now.

Used program Nero to write to an 8.5 +R DL disc.

Windows seems to be limited to 700MB CD-Rs for drag and drop.

Sure is nice to go 10X on data backup disc size.

Pretty much obviates needing a backup HDD.

Here is a good site with lots of useful information on DVD

http://www.cdfreaks.com

[Firefoxx]

Nero is the standard for writing DVD discs, they had support for dual layer writing even before the drives appeared on the market.

Dual layer media is still a bit too expensive (200+ baht each) compared to single layer media (20+ baht each), so I'm still sticking to single layer media. I only download enough to fill a 4.4GB DVD about every two weeks or so.

[Mr_Happy]

I believe DVD data disks must use the UDF packet format, too large for the other formats I believe. Anyways nero makes you use it...

[Firefoxx]

DVD data discs can use both ISO and UDF file formats. If you want to write a really big file (2GB+) on the disc, the UDF format is required. Otherwise, ISO is normally used.

[Mr_Happy]

Thinking it was somthing like that, been doing backups which have files the size of the dvd

[paulfr]

Dual layer media is still a bit too expensive (200+ baht each) compared to single layer media (20+ baht each), so I'm still sticking to single layer media.  I only download enough to fill a 4.4GB DVD about every two weeks or so.

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FF

You are paying only 20B for a 4.7GB single layer DVD ?

Not at Pantip, I looked and best price I found was 150B.

For the dual layer 8.5GB, it was 250-350B.

I am a newbie to these high capacity discs .... did I miss

the right shop ?

[Firefoxx]

You're buying name brand discs in jewel cases. For those, it will always be around 100+ baht. What I buy is bulk discs, in packs of 50. Those come to 20 baht each. The shop I buy it from is called "Sunshine", and they have a shop in both IT Mall and Pantip (3rd or 4th floor). They also have bulk Philips DVD-Rs, which cost around 30 baht each.

I have had no trouble with these discs, so far not a single coaster, and they can be read on everything. But this might be because of my writer, a Pioneer A08, which has yet to produce a coaster. My old DVD writer, a Plextor, couldn't write to these (and many other) discs.

[Mr_Happy]

100 @1300 Baht... seem to be ok

4.7 X4 -r's

[paulfr]

100 @1300 Baht... seem to be ok

4.7 X4 -r's

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Was that at Pantip, Seacon Square, Fortune IT ??

What brand or is it a generic ??

Thanks, 13B each is a steal if they are not coasters half the time.