lagladney

Thanks so much for all of your help! I really do appeciate it!

My tower has 3 drives.....the floppy, cd-rom/cd-rw, and dvd-rom drives. My computer was purchased at Best Buy back in 2002. I am on the east coast of the USA----NJ to be exact. Would it be best to just upgrade at this point and include a dvd burner?

So the dvd burner/writer is a separate drive that I need to purchase. And I will put the full size dvd I want to write to in this drive....correct? Do you know what a reasonable price would be for a burner? And I'm guessing it just hooks up to a port in my pc, right? Thanks so much for your help!

Oh....I'm working on my work pc right now---only one drive. But at home, I have two drives----one of which is labeled DVD-ROM. Does that mean I have a DVD burner? I know I can watch DVDs on my home pc Sorry I am clueless about this stuff. At home I tried using the software that came with my video camera (Nero xpress) and couldn't get that to work. I copied the video files to my hard drive, but when I tried to burn them to a DVD-RW---it didn't work. The only option in the destination drive drop down was (Image Recorder DVD). Shouldn't my E Drive (my DVD-ROM) be in the destination drive drop down. I also tried dragging and dropping the files from my hard drive to the DVD-ROM and nothing happened. Plus my pc was running super slow after installing Nero. Should I try Imgburn at home or am I wasting my time? I really appreciate your help!!!

Sorry, it would have looked like this....... I 09:45:41 ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 started! I 09:45:41 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 09:45:41 Total Physical Memory: 1,039,856 KB - Available: 506,780 KB I 09:45:41 Initialising SPTI... I 09:45:41 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 09:45:41 Found 1 DVD-ROM/CD-RW! I 09:46:16 Operation Started! I 09:46:16 Source Device: [1:0:0] HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4481B 1.13 (D:) (ATA) I 09:46:16 Source Media Type: DVD-RW I 09:46:16 Source Media Sectors: 692,368 (Track Path: PTP) I 09:46:16 Source Media Size: 1,417,969,664 bytes I 09:46:16 Source Media Volume Identifier: 2006_11_04_11H00M_AM I 09:46:16 Source Media Volume Set Identifier: 00A439B2 SONY_MOBILE_VOLUME_SET I 09:46:16 Source Media Implementation Identifier: SONY_MOBILE I 09:46:16 Source Media File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02) I 09:46:16 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / 8x I 09:46:16 Destination File: C:\Documents and Settings\lsabatini\My Documents\My Videos\2006_11_04_11H00M_AM.ISO I 09:46:16 Destination Free Space: 28,307,476,480 bytes (27,644,020 KB) (26,996 MB) (26 GB) I 09:46:16 Destination File System: NTFS I 09:46:16 File Splitting: Auto

I am trying to burn videos recorded on mini-dvds in my video camera to my hard drive, so that I can then transfer the videos to full size dvds. Here's a copy of the log: I 08:50:06 Reading Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 692367) I 08:50:06 Reading Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 692367) W 08:57:02 Failed to Read Sector 468544 - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 08:57:07 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 08:57:15 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 08:57:19 Retrying (2 of 20)... I 08:57:23 Reading Sectors... W 08:57:33 Failed to Read Sector 468545 - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 08:57:34 Retrying (1 of 20)... I 08:57:37 Reading Sectors... W 08:58:10 Failed to Read Sector 469440 - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 08:58:11 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 08:58:21 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 08:58:22 Retrying (2 of 20)... I 08:58:22 Reading Sectors... W 08:58:33 Failed to Read Sector 469441 - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 08:58:37 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 08:58:48 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 08:58:52 Retrying (2 of 20)... W 08:59:02 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 08:59:03 Retrying (3 of 20)... W 08:59:16 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 08:59:17 Retrying (4 of 20)... I 08:59:18 Reading Sectors... W 09:00:00 Failed to Read Sector 472752 - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:00:05 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 09:00:12 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:00:13 Retrying (2 of 20)... W 09:00:24 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:00:29 Retrying (3 of 20)... W 09:00:39 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:00:42 Retrying (4 of 20)... I 09:00:44 Reading Sectors... W 09:01:25 Failed to Read Sector 472944 - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:01:29 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 09:01:40 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:01:42 Retrying (2 of 20)... W 09:01:52 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:01:53 Retrying (3 of 20)... W 09:02:03 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:02:06 Retrying (4 of 20)... W 09:02:16 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:02:17 Retrying (5 of 20)... I 09:02:18 Reading Sectors... W 09:02:29 Failed to Read Sector 472976 - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:02:30 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 09:02:39 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:02:41 Retrying (2 of 20)... W 09:02:52 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:02:54 Retrying (3 of 20)... W 09:03:03 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:03:08 Retrying (4 of 20)... W 09:03:18 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:03:20 Retrying (5 of 20)... W 09:03:30 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:03:32 Retrying (6 of 20)... W 09:03:43 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:03:47 Retrying (7 of 20)... W 09:03:57 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:04:00 Retrying (8 of 20)... W 09:04:09 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:04:14 Retrying (9 of 20)... W 09:04:24 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:04:26 Retrying (10 of 20)... W 09:04:35 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:04:38 Retrying (11 of 20)... W 09:04:48 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:04:53 Retrying (12 of 20)... W 09:05:03 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:05:05 Retrying (13 of 20)... W 09:05:15 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:05:19 Retrying (14 of 20)... W 09:05:29 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:05:33 Retrying (15 of 20)... W 09:05:43 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:05:43 Retrying (16 of 20)... W 09:05:53 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:05:54 Retrying (17 of 20)... W 09:06:04 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:06:06 Retrying (18 of 20)... W 09:06:13 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:06:16 Retrying (19 of 20)... W 09:06:25 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error W 09:06:26 Retrying (20 of 20)... W 09:06:34 Retry Failed - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error E 09:10:16 Failed to Read Sector 472976 - Reason: Unrecovered Read Error E 09:10:16 Sector 472976 maps to File: \VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB E 09:10:16 Failed to Read Sectors! I 09:10:16 Exporting Graph Data... I 09:10:16 Graph Data File: C:\Documents and Settings\lsabatini\Application Data\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\HL-DT-ST_RW-DVD_GCC-4481B_1.13_WEDNESDAY-JULY-16-2008_8-50_AM_N-A.ibg I 09:10:16 Export Successfully Completed! E 09:10:16 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:20:11 E 09:10:16 Average Read Rate: 781 KB/s (0.6x) - Maximum Read Rate: 8,423 KB/s (6.1x)