Help! For all I've heard about Easy Media Creator - it takes me way to long to get even one question answered using their help or support website. Can someone offer me some answers? (1) I tried using their 'drag to disc', but it points to the wrong drive. 'Help' said to right click on the correct drive in Windows Explorer and choose 'drag to disc', but that option does not appear on the letter for my external DVD burner (Maddog by the way). It does show up for the letter for my CD burner drive. I can't find an answer so I'm stuck... auggh. I know my DVD burner works okay because I can use the Roxio Disc Copier with the drive and it works. (2) This is a general DVD question - I had thought that I could copy any files to a DVD. I tried using the Disc Copier utility to copy the contents of a CD (photos) to a DVD - and got the message 'the source and destination are incompatable'. Do you know why? (3) Forget Roxio for this one - how do I simply move data to my DVD? For CDs I have the option from Windows to 'Write these files to CD' - but not for the DVD drive. So, doesn't look like I can just drag it. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED....
Alright, as far as Roxio goes, I have no idea what to tell you there, I've been a nero user for years now and will never go back to roxio, so can't help with #1. #2 If you're doing it that way you're probably making it harder on yourself than you really need to, don't bother using a "copier". If you have 2 seperate drives, put a blank dvd in your dvd burner and your cd w/your files in the other drive. Burn a disc using your burning programs "make data DVD" or whatever they call it w/roxio function, and use the files off the disc. OR if you have multiple discs or only one optical drive just copy the files to the hard drive and burn them from there using the data function (i.e. make data dvd). #3 I've never used the integrated cd burning in windows for anything but emergency situations and have NEVER tried to burn a dvd in that manner. My best recomendation would be to download a trial of nero, and if you like it, buy it. Not only is it easier to use than most other programs (a friend of mine couldn't figure out how to burn from windows but was burning using nero within 5 minutes) but once you get into more advanced projects you'll find that it will do, and do well 90% of the advanced functions you would want in it. You'll know what they are when you're ready to do it, trust me. Just try that out and see how it works.
annyahoo: I'm sure this may not be the case but one time I had a problem with drag to disk. I couldn't get it to work properly similar to your situation. The only other problem I noticed was that I couldn't drag & rearrange my desktop icons, but everything else was normal. I thought I had a virus or worm. As it turned out, I had a bad mouse. I changed mouses and drag to disk started working like it should.
