Re: Newbie to this sort of thing



On 20/8/05 16:25, in article 0001HW.BF2D0A020007BA3CF04075B0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"I.J Jordan" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Please forgive this basic question about burning DVDs.I have a G4 PPC with
> what I believe to be a Combo drive in it to be precise a HL-DT-ST RW/DVD
> GCC-4480B: according to the system profiler.I wish to make a back up copy of
> a DVD that my wife purchased..... nothing too complicated just one of her
> favorite 70's groups.To that end I purchased a DVD-R but when I put that into
> the drive rather than recognize it; it just ejects again.I must confess that
> I did not realize that there were so many different types of DVD's to record
> to............. do I need to use DVD-RW or something else as opposed to
> DVD-R? or even something with a plus sign in it.

Combo drives read DVDs, write CDs. You need a DVD-Writer.


Specs here:
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Productinformation/LG_GCC_4480B__5399993/

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