Dvd-r Backup Problem

[beadee]

Help Meeee
Have Win 98se. Recently Installed A Sony Double Layer Dvd Drive.
The Problem Is That When I Place A Disk In Drive (4.7gb) It Reads It As Cd-rom And 1.99gb And Full!.so When I Want To Burn A Disk It Is Saying That There Is Insufficient Space On Disk .please Insert Proprer Disk Any Help Please.

Beadee

 

[Scooterpig]

Ya might just want to add what software you are trying to use to burn with..

 

[VIPER_1069]

Help Meeee
Have Win 98se.

THERES your problem straight away as windows 98se cannot handle the 4gb file sizes required for dvd burning it causes all sorts of headaches with FAT32 FORMATTED drives as you discovered

you would be better either upgrading to XP or windows 2000 with NTFS formatting/file structure

 

[kctexan]

FAT32 file type

Just a note.. I have FAT32 file types for my 2 hard drives, on my Windows XP PC (this was done to try to communicate with another PC, which had FAT32..), and I have no problems at all burning DVDs. Their maximum size is 4.438 Gb, which is anywhere from 2-3.5 hours of very high quality video (352x480). Using Dish satellite to ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 video card (with MM8.8 program) to TMPGEnc DVD Author program to Plextor DVD+-R DVD burner. That is all. Breckenridge.
Russell

(Oh-so-trendy quote goes here...)

 

[PC-GUY]

Just a note.. I have FAT32 file types for my 2 hard drives, on my Windows XP PC (this was done to try to communicate with another PC, which had FAT32..), and I have no problems at all burning DVDs. Their maximum size is 4.438 Gb, which is anywhere from 2-3.5 hours of very high quality video (352x480). Using Dish satellite to ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 video card (with MM8.8 program) to TMPGEnc DVD Author program to Plextor DVD+-R DVD burner. That is all. Breckenridge.
Russell

(Oh-so-trendy quote goes here...)

First I agree with Scooterpig & VIPER. First, what programs are you trying burn with? May you can post a log file from them.
Second, not using NTFS & Win98 for DVD burning is asking for problems.
Also fat 32 and NTFS can communicate with out a problem.

 

[ChickenMan]

In theory you should have no problems what so ever in burning DVD's in Win98. Largest file is just 1.0gb, while FAT32 limit is 4.0gb. The problem comes in that not all burning software fully suports Win98 any more, or has not been fully tested on Win98 (as those developing burning software are most certainly NOT using Win98 as their OS).

@kctexan, you quote "..of very high quality video (352x480)." Arr.. 352x480 is NOT very high quality, good quality would better describe it if compareing to normal 720x480 dvd quality.

@beadee, unless you tell us what software and Operating System your using, no one is going to be able to help you.

 

[scarecrow]

9X machines have absolutely no trouble reading+ writing on NTFS shares via the network filesystem, so there's no need keeping the crippo FAT32 filesystem on your machine. The only thing you should care about is keeping the naming limitations for the network shares (XP will warn you if a name of a share can't be read by a 9X machine).
Dual layer burning might or might not work on 9X, but support from software vendors is poor to nonexistent. Why don't you just switch to 2000 or XP?