I got a new Dell PC (XPS) with Win XP Prof. With it I purchased software from Dell, to run a DVD and when it arrived, there are 2 icons on the desk top which are "My DVD" on on "D" Drive and the second icon just said "To Copy & Burn CD's, which is on "E" Drive. Now I have broke down and got Roxio "My DVD Premier 8. I have not installed it yet as when I started to instal the program, the installation said that there was a compatability problem with Sonic DLA. It asked me if I wished the installer to remove the program. I'm not to sure about this. Here is my question. Is My DVD Premier 8, going to replace both the sonic programs's that I now have. The "My DVD" sonic program just reads DVD's on my "D" Drive. While the second Sonic program that came with the pc (To Copy & Burn CD's) allows me to make data cd's, dvd's and to drag and drop them.
My question is should I remove both these before I do the instllation? Do I go ahead and remove Sonic DLA as the installer asked when I started the installation process of My DVD Premier 8.

I am sure this is very basic to 99.9% of you on this forum, however, I need some guidance before I try the installation again. I cancelled the installation of My DVD Premier 8 until I get these questins ansered.

Thanks for taking the time to give me a little guidance here.

Regards..

Tunney Moriarty

Tunney, this is simply my opinion as a person who, between home, work and wife's work has purchased many Dells recently. The one's I have EMC on, I have removed all of the pre-installed Sonic programs as they are basically a 'lite' version. They work well but don't do all the things the full version of EMC8 does.
Sonic DLA is a packet writing program that competes with EMC's Drag to Disc and only 1 program of this type can be installed or problems will happen. I use the control panel to uninstall all the Sonic programs and then make sure their directories and folders are gone then reboot and install EMC.
If I understand you correctly, it appears the 'D' drive is the DVD burner and the 'E' drive is the cd burner. Of course, the 'D' drive can read your cd's as well but if the E is only a cd burner, it will not read dvd's nor write to them.
The XPS is a nice system and a very quiet one too. Hope you enjoy it.