I must not understand the things i need to know. I bought the external drive due to the computer i have does not read dvd's, its only a cd-rom drive, i also bought it because i would like to make copies of the movies i buy, i cant afford to but another same movie due to my kids scratching it up again. So like i said i have installed the nero 8 into my external drive, all went good. next i put in a movie. for my source and destination options it has e:hl-dt-st dvd-ram gh22np20 and tsstcorp cd-rw ts-h292b, i just left those options the way it was when i started. then i clicked copy, i can hear it turning, just for a few seconds, but then it tells me copy disc copy error. I have read the quick install guide (thats all it came with), also looked in the help topics of Nero, then on this website i have also checked, seems kinda hard because a lot of the topics are not Nero 8. i hope someone can help me out here, thanks so much btw, i guess i am still a beginner so if you can keep the words small and uncomplicated it would be appreciated, lol, thanks