DVD burning issues

[General Mortars]

Hi, there, I wonder if anyone can help me on this issue:

Pentium 4 2.4 MHz
20+130 Gb hardrive
GeForce 4
1 Gb RAM

I just bought a DVD RW thingie for my computer.
Some would say "Oh, no, E., a CD burner is more than enough for you."
But having survived years of burning entire CD sets for a mere album (where I could get up to 48-50 files of 30 megs each), I decided that no thanks. I ´ve had enough of that.

Stack ALL them files into a single DVD and I don´t have to put another thought onto it.
Plus I can do backups of my hardrives that won´t completelly fill my shelves.
Said. Done.

My first experiment, I decided to do a backup of my hardrive,.
I have this folder CRAMMED with gigs upon gigs of images, jpegs, gifs, small CG clips, film trailers, PDFs and etc that I downloaded over the years from the internet.
Funny stuff, cute stuff, weirds stuff, you name it, it´s there.
I decide I wanted to do a backup of said folder since there are things there that I find priceless (and probably impossible to find again).
I put a virgin DVD into the DVD RW tray and Sonic RecordNow DX starts.
I select the folder (3 gigs) and start doing a backup.
Suddenly, I receive an error message, something along the lines of :
"The files XYZ are not original"

OF COURSE they´re not original.
Nothing in that folder is!
Or does it thinks I am the true author of the Matrix Revolutions trailer?

It interrupts the recording and upon checking the DVD, I find out that it only recorded a couple of jpegs.
Worst yet, I can´t stick it inside a the DVD RW and try again.
A perfectly brand new empty DVD (3 euros) to the trash bin.

Following this mishap, I bought Nero 6 (my Nero 5 didn´t recognise this new DVD RW thingie) only to find out that I can´t burn DVDs with it, only CDs.

Colour me doofus, there´s more money to the gutter..


Can anybody help me?

Please?

[maestro5050]

Well I have never tried Record Now in any of the available versions so I do not have an answer for that issue. I can tell you with certainty that DVD burning IS supported with the Nero 6 that you bought. I would recommend that you upgrade it (free from Nero site) to version 6.3.0.2 due to known DVD burning issues with earlier versions.

[General Mortars]

Thank you for the repply, Maestro.

I only use Recordnow because it came with my DVD burner, I´m more of a fan of Nero myself.
Been using it since version 3 but I have to confess I´ve never explored all of its potential as I only use it to burn image files and the occasional monthly backup cds.

I have this neat-looking Nero5 english-deutsch-french-italian-spanish red book but I have to confess I never really gave it a read since the mere sight gets me exhausted (manuals do this to me, I have stacks upon stacks of unread TV, VCR, etvc etc instructions manuals lying about).

Too bad since a quick read would have saved me a lot of white hairs. :P