Blank DVD -R Size

Vista Home Premium
NEC 3540A & 3550A DVD RW Drives
Roxio Software
Maxell 16x -R DVD blanks marked 4.7GB, plus unknown brand

This is the first time I have tried copying. I have a file on HD created by
DVD Decrypter which is 4.3Gigs. No problem you would think. I place a
blank (unknown brand) into my system and when I try to copy I am told my
blank DVD has insufficient space and further that my blank has only 4.07Gig
of available blank space. So I go to Best Buy and purchase Maxell -R blank
DVD disks which are marked 4.7Gigs. Same effect. Also, same thing when I
place the blank into either drive.

Can someone explain??

Fred

"Count" <CountFrederick@Optonline.net> wrote in message
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> Vista Home Premium
> NEC 3540A & 3550A DVD RW Drives
> Roxio Software
> Maxell 16x -R DVD blanks marked 4.7GB, plus unknown brand
>
> This is the first time I have tried copying. I have a file on HD created
by
> DVD Decrypter which is 4.3Gigs. No problem you would think. I place a
> blank (unknown brand) into my system and when I try to copy I am told my
> blank DVD has insufficient space and further that my blank has only
4.07Gig
> of available blank space. So I go to Best Buy and purchase Maxell -R
blank
> DVD disks which are marked 4.7Gigs. Same effect. Also, same thing when I
> place the blank into either drive.
>
> Can someone explain??
>
> Fred
>
How did you try to copy?
Did you try a DVD burning program like Imgburn or Nero or just Vista's own
burning engine?

Hi:
Many thanks for the clue. I had Roxio on the system but was actually using
Microsoft. Problem solved.
FRED


"Derek" <Derek@home> wrote in message news:46bff09f$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
> "Count" <CountFrederick@Optonline.net> wrote in message
> news:HCQvi.738$lz2.604@newsfe12.lga...
>> Vista Home Premium
>> NEC 3540A & 3550A DVD RW Drives
>> Roxio Software
>> Maxell 16x -R DVD blanks marked 4.7GB, plus unknown brand
>>
>> This is the first time I have tried copying. I have a file on HD created
> by
>> DVD Decrypter which is 4.3Gigs. No problem you would think. I place a
>> blank (unknown brand) into my system and when I try to copy I am told my
>> blank DVD has insufficient space and further that my blank has only
> 4.07Gig
>> of available blank space. So I go to Best Buy and purchase Maxell -R
> blank
>> DVD disks which are marked 4.7Gigs. Same effect. Also, same thing when
>> I
>> place the blank into either drive.
>>
>> Can someone explain??
>>
>> Fred
>>
> How did you try to copy?
> Did you try a DVD burning program like Imgburn or Nero or just Vista's own
> burning engine?
>
>
>

Count schrieb:
> Vista Home Premium
> NEC 3540A & 3550A DVD RW Drives
> Roxio Software
> Maxell 16x -R DVD blanks marked 4.7GB, plus unknown brand
>
> This is the first time I have tried copying. I have a file on HD
> created by DVD Decrypter which is 4.3Gigs. No problem you would think.
> I place a blank (unknown brand) into my system and when I try to copy I
> am told my blank DVD has insufficient space and further that my blank
> has only 4.07Gig of available blank space. So I go to Best Buy and
> purchase Maxell -R blank DVD disks which are marked 4.7Gigs. Same
> effect. Also, same thing when I place the blank into either drive.
>
> Can someone explain??
>
> Fred
>
>
>
Hi !

First of all, there is a different view, how much a GB is. We "computer
folks" say it is 1024*1024*1024 Bytes, whereas the Storage industries
says, it is 1000*1000*1000 Bytes. Thats also a reason why your 500GB
disk has only some 400 GB in your filebrowser. (Hollywood even thinks a
single layer is 5GB and a double layer is 9 GB. Noticed the mark on your
movies ?)

This has nothing to do with the brand of your blank.

OK, next to your question. It does not work, because the image you'd
like to burn is all structures on the media in one file. As you already
said, using roxio did the job. It recognised that the img file contains
everything needed, an did the job. The Windows burning engine assumed,
you want to burn the "file" on its own to a -R. Then it needs a
directory structure and that blows the needed space up about some MB,
which is then too much for a single -R.

Hope that explains it. Ask if not!

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