I am doing something wrong and I can't home in on what it is. I have EMC 7 and have used it in the past to burn DVDs. Today, I set out to burn a DVD using Creator Classic, set the option on the bottom of the window to 4.7 G, selected the files, clicked on Burn and it told me that I needed 5 CDs. Somewhere I must have missed selecting the DVD default but I can't work out where. Is there a guru who can set me right?

Thanks

Les Harris

Forgot to mention that the status bar along the bottom correctly estimates the size of the file and the space left over, which is correct for a DVD but impossible for a CD. This has me bluffed. Why does it estimate for a DVD, then tell me that I need 5 CDs?

Les Harris

Don't know…

Reboot?

If you have a DVD RW, I would click Burn and see what happens.

It is when I click Burn that it tells me that I need 5 CDs. With a blank DVD in the drive, it offers me a range of CD formats to use, not DVDs. I have used the same drive in the recent past to burn DVDs. The Tutorial won't open either (I wanted to check that to se if I had missed something) and it might be a case of reinstall the whole thing.

Are the discs from a batch that you have used with this drive before? Or from a new batch?

What is the id string of the drive? (right-click MyComputer > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager > click on the DVD/CD-ROM icon and copy off the id string, character for character (upper and lower case exactly), space for space.

I am thinking this might be an older drive encountering newer discs without a firmware update.

Lynn

I am thinking this might be an older drive encountering newer discs without a firmware update.

Lynn
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Lynn,

Same computer, same drive, same blank DVDs, same everything. It is looking more and more like a reinstall.

Les