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[HawkWolf]

Roxio Version 9 has this side program which is called "Drag to Disc" which gives me a visual guide to do commands to the Roxio program. I can insett the disca and from the Drag to Disc I can tell it ot format the disc and I can name the disc. I can also see the contents of the disc and also eject the disc using this Drag to Disc program and do these commands from it.

I insert a blank DVD disc into the writer and then try to name the disc and it will not do it. When I see the contents of the disc, it tells me that it is full and cannot write to it. Also, I believe it says it is a read only disc. The format option is greyed out.

I am talking about a brand new disc. I tried this on many new discs and same result.

[gi7omy]

You haven't said what sort of disc you are using. You can only erase and re-format a DVD-RW. You can NOT do it to a DVD-R or +R

[Brendon]

Hawkwolf,

What make/model of burner drive are you using? Is it a DVD burner?

This is the display you should get from Drag-to-Disc while a blank write-once DVD is inserted in a DVD drive. Note that Rename and Erase are greyed-out.



And this is what I get with a blank RW disc in the drive. Format, Rename, and Erase are all apparently enabled, but note you can't Rename or do much else to a disc with Drag-to-Disc until you've formatted it.





Please also be aware that Drag-to-Disc [D2D] is an alternative burning system. It only uses discs you have pre-formatted, and the formatting uses up a lot of the disc space. The discs can't be read without D2D or a special reader being installed, and they can't be written to by a system without D2D.

If you want standard discs that can be read in any PC and don't need special software to read, then you should write to blank [unformatted] discs with Creator Classic which is part of your Easy Media Creator 9 package.