DVD Recording Drives for Win98

[Zombie6422]

I have been looking to get a dvd writer drive, but everyone I see says it needs windows xp to work. Does anyone know of one I could get that is compatible with windows 98?

[babyboo]

Really?? I never knew that. I have a Lite-On 811S in my Win98 box with no problems.

[yoda313]

Hello,

My microadvantage 4x worked perfectly in win98. I have since upgraded to windows 2000. Just check the requirements on the box or the manufacturers website. Should do ok.

Kevin

[iooi]

Think you will find its more of the software requirements than the drive itself.

[solarfox]

iooi is right -- the "system requirements" are generally talking about the bundled software that comes with the drive, not the drive itself. The drive itself doesn't really care what OS is being used; I've successfully used both a Pioneer A04 and an A07 under Windows 98SE with no problems.

The problem is that under Win98, you can't create a file larger than 4Gb, so capturing and encoding video becomes a little more complicated because everything has to be broken up into <4Gb segments.

[Zombie6422]

Ok thanks. I was just doing a bit of shopping today at various website for a dvd recorder and everyone I was looking at said basically a winxp requirement. But that makes sense that it is probably the software that accompanies it. I am just looking to get it to duplicate dvd-r's I made on my set top recorder.