[The-Soc (old)]

My computer has gone to crap, with like 130 GB of my 150 GB hard drive used, so i went out today and purchased a spindle of 50 4.7 GB DVD-R discs for $10 at my local staples. (that was easy)
Anyway, I get home to start archiving unneeded stuff, when I realize that it is not working. When I cut something and paste it to the drive where my disc is, I get this lovely error message.

So my question is, how do I write stuff to the DVDs? Is there a free program that you can point me to that will accomplish this?

[Nonus (old)]

Firstly I wouldn't recommend zipping up your data, best to leave it a lone.

I haven't used Windows in years so I don't know what is free anymore nor what is good. You can look on the following link though for one.
http://www.versiontracker.com/windows/

[wraith4.x (old)]

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Firstly I wouldn't recommend zipping up your data, best to leave it a lone.

why do you say that?.....just askin is all

[Nonus (old)]

Well first of all, why compress something you are backing up, now if somehow the zip corrupts you are screwed. Easier to search the disk, easier to retrieve stuff from the disk. It is not like you are trying to fit 2 megs of text onto a floppy. Storage is cheap and things are better to be left alone.

[wraith4.x (old)]

ye i never zip my crap up....i wuz just wondering why you said it wuz best to leave it alone

didn't think about corrupting....but very true

good advice

[Tidus]

Is it me or you are trying to copy stuff directly through the windows explorer to a DVD-R?

You do know you are supposed to use a software like Nero to be able to put data on a DVD-R, right?

[The-Soc (old)]

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Is it me or you are trying to copy stuff directly through the windows explorer to a DVD-R?

You do know you are supposed to use a software like Nero to be able to put data on a DVD-R, right?

Nope.
Is there a free program that does what Nero does?

[Frea]{ (old)]

www.deepburner.com

[GlaD-don]

http://www.snapfiles...get/burrrn.html

Got it to burn .flac and was surprised how good it was. It's 100% free too.

Make sure you get as close to the 4.7 GB limit as possible, so you don't waste a ton of discs. You should probably check if you have a DVD burner too. I mean, you were trying to drag and drop through Explorer.

[]$[Homie]

er.. you can drag and drop into a cd/dvd-r(w) from explorer (in XP and Vista)

put a blank disk into ur drive, Windows will even recognise that a blank disk has been insterted, and will ask you want you want to do with the disk. So open the blank disk,  and drag ur files over. Then click "Burn these files to disk" on the left.

For simple file/folder burning it works fine under both XP and Vista(even better). For the formation of more complex disk then I would advise using some 3rd party sofware.