I am not an expert on computer! Issues burning to DVD using _NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A drive.

Trying to backup my photo's from external hard drive. When I put DVD into drive, it changes from + to - (my drive takes both) and tells me it is a CD drive not DVD+RW with 0 bytes available and 0 bytes used.

I have used this drive before with Roxio Creator 7.5 no problem.

I cannot find drag to disk on Creator 10, that is what I usually use to backup pictures. Now when I try to drag to disk is tells me Windows has a problem completing the task.

I have checked, all my drivers are up to date!

Please help this novice! tks

Drag-to-Disc was dropped starting with EMC 10, so if you removed v7.5, that's why a disc formatted with it will no longer be writeable to. It's also a very unreliable way (uses packet-writing technology) to backup any data.

If you have Vista, you can try their Live File System if you want to do that type of disc burning, although I wouldn't recommend it myself.

You'd be best served to use either Creator Classic or the Home app Data Disc in EMC 10 to burn your discs. You'll need to use a new unformatted disc.

Tks Larry, for your input, I have Creator 10 and am try to backup my pics from external drive but when I put a new disk in the DVD drive, it shows it as a CD drive with 0 Bytes used and 0 bytes available. It is also show it as a -CD instead of a + and will not.

I have tried to send the files to the disk but again it says windows had encountered a problem when trying to copy this folder. What do you want Windows to do? What ever I try it shows the drive and DVD as a CD, unless it is playing a DVD movie or prerecorded DVD

Is this a problem with Roxio installation or Windows

Is the "new disc" brand new, never formatted, fresh out of the box?.

We don't want Windows to do anything. You need to start up Creator 2009, don't try dragging and dropping the files using Windows Explorer. My suggestion would be to go to Start -> Creator 2009 -> Applications -> Creator Classic. In there, add the files you want to write to disc. Click on the "Burn" button, and see what happens.

Yes brand new, even went and bought DVD-R different brand name to see if that would work but same problem, doesn't matter what I try cannot burn to disk. system keeps changing type of drive (CD-R to DVD+RW etc) when I try to read different media, but same outcome, 'no media detected.' Computer is telling me drive working properly.

HELP!

Are you indeed starting Easy Media Creator? Or are you just looking at what Windows thinks is in the drive? If the latter, forget that and start Easy Media Creator and try writing your files using that.

According to the Specs, from Dell,
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/stor...34/en/intro.htm
the NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A is exactly what it says - that is, it will burn plus DVDs but not dash DVDs. It can READ both, but reading and writing are NOT the same.

While we are at it, Packet-Writing (Drag2Disc, Sonic's DLA, Nero's InCD, etc) is tolerable for SHORT-TERM usage such as moving files from one computer to another while the original is safely on the originating computer. It is very hazardzous to your data for long-term archiving, which is what I suspect you want to do.

So you need to get some DVD plus media.

Go re-read the good advice in earlier posts in this thead for how to backup your files WITHOUT Packet-Writing. And after you've backed up your new files, go and back-up the files you previously backed up using Drag2Disc if you can still read them.

As for it showing a CD-R as dash rather than plus - there is no such thing as CD plus. It is ALL CD dash media.

Lynn