How to backup files or photos on DVD?

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This should be a simple question, but I haven't been able to find the answer
on the Microsoft site, nor have the first three products I downloaded after
Googling been able to accomplish the simple task of putting files onto a DVD.
I don't want to make a movie, I don't want to be able to play them back
through a DVD player. I simply want to use the higher capacity of a DVD as a
backup device (compared to CD-ROM). But I would like to be able to read the
files (at a computer with a DVD reader) from the DVD I create.
 
NFurlong said:
This should be a simple question, but I haven't been able
to find the answer on the Microsoft site, nor have the
first three products I downloaded after Googling been
able to accomplish the simple task of putting files onto
a DVD. I don't want to make a movie, I don't want to be
able to play them back through a DVD player. I simply
want to use the higher capacity of a DVD as a backup
device (compared to CD-ROM). But I would like to be able
to read the files (at a computer with a DVD reader) from
the DVD I create.
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If you have a DVD burner, you should have DVD
burning software...possibly Nero, Roxio, InterVideo...

Open your burning program and create a Data DVD.

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John Inzer said:
If you have a DVD burner, you should have DVD
burning software...possibly Nero, Roxio, InterVideo...

Open your burning program and create a Data DVD.
Click to expand...

Oh dear, that's the difference between "simple" and "simplistic" and I guess
asking for the former I was bound to receive the latter. OEM PC, came with
no DVD Burning software. That's why I scoured the Internet for such, read
the descriptions, downloaded and installed the promising ones only to find
out that they didn't handle the simple task of mere file transfer. So after
3 tries (dvdSanta, iPhoto DVD, NTI CD & DVD-Maker), I gave up and decided to
consult the experts. If anyone has had experience with any package
(inlcuding John's suggestions above) and actually been able to store files
and read tham on another computer, I would be most grateful. Thanks.
 
NFurlong said:
Oh dear, that's the difference between "simple" and "simplistic" and I
guess
asking for the former I was bound to receive the latter. OEM PC, came
with
no DVD Burning software. That's why I scoured the Internet for such, read
the descriptions, downloaded and installed the promising ones only to find
out that they didn't handle the simple task of mere file transfer. So
after
3 tries (dvdSanta, iPhoto DVD, NTI CD & DVD-Maker), I gave up and decided
to
consult the experts. If anyone has had experience with any package
(inlcuding John's suggestions above) and actually been able to store files
and read tham on another computer, I would be most grateful. Thanks.
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Well, I use EasyCD Creator for such a purpose. The drg-to-disk utility
which is part of this suite does the deed by simply dragging the file to the
cd icon. You must select the correct option when you are through else you
won't be able to read the cd or dvd elsewhere.
Jim
 
NFurlong said:
Oh dear, that's the difference between "simple" and
"simplistic" and I guess asking for the former I was
bound to receive the latter. OEM PC, came with no DVD
Burning software. That's why I scoured the Internet for
such, read the descriptions, downloaded and installed the
promising ones only to find out that they didn't handle
the simple task of mere file transfer. So after 3 tries
(dvdSanta, iPhoto DVD, NTI CD & DVD-Maker), I gave up and
decided to consult the experts. If anyone has had
experience with any package (inlcuding John's suggestions
above) and actually been able to store files and read
tham on another computer, I would be most grateful.
Thanks.
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An OEM DVD burner would surely have
been installed along with burning software.
Are you positive that you actually have a
DVD burner and not just a DVD player?
Does the front of your DVD drive tray say
Rewritable or Player?


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John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Making Good Newsgroup Posts
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
 
John Inzer said:
An OEM DVD burner would surely have
been installed along with burning software.
Are you positive that you actually have a
DVD burner and not just a DVD player?
Does the front of your DVD drive tray say
Rewritable or Player?
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I'm positive it's a DVD Burner. It came with no DVD-burning software
because I gave them a copy of Win XP, so the store that put the PC together
only installed the OS and didn't charge me for any software. I suspect that
if I had paid the $$$ for their OEM version of XP, they would have installed
the typical bundle of other software, which I'm sure would have included a
DVD Burner.

From what I'm gathering, Roxio's $100 Easy CD Creator is the only way to go
for dropping files onto a DVD? I had rather hoped for a less expensinve
solution.

Thanks.
 
XP has no native DVD burning capability. Somewhere somehow you must install
DVD burning software.
Jim
 
It sounds as if you have a rather understanding supplier.

Would it be credible, possible, do-able and legal to go back and say
something like:

Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa!
Please install an OEM OS and bundle of OEM softwares?

I am sure (please correct me if mistaken) that such a request would not
be a contravention? Besides I think one can update from XP to XP Pro on
an OEM and there is always an upgrade to Vista where n when available?
 
NFurlong said:
I'm positive it's a DVD Burner. It came with no DVD-burning software
because I gave them a copy of Win XP, so the store that put the PC together
only installed the OS and didn't charge me for any software. I suspect that
if I had paid the $$$ for their OEM version of XP, they would have installed
the typical bundle of other software, which I'm sure would have included a
DVD Burner.

From what I'm gathering, Roxio's $100 Easy CD Creator is the only way to go
for dropping files onto a DVD? I had rather hoped for a less expensinve
solution.
Click to expand...

When you bought the OEM DVD burner, you also paid for the OEM install
of DVD burning software. Perhaps your store just neglected to install
it from the CD, and would be willing to do so now.

-michael

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