The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    DVD Burning Question, Using external Burner

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by DR650SE, Mar 5, 2009.

  1. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

    Reputations:
    7,383
    Messages:
    8,222
    Likes Received:
    182
    Trophy Points:
    231
    I have an External DVD burner that I got about a year ago. My question is this. When I burn a DVD now, my computer needs to back it up onto the system and then ejects the disk and then I have to put a new one in to burn to. How can I set it up so that while it reads from my laptops DVD Drive it burns on the external? I'd like to get some use out of this thing. thanks for any help. Also I'm using Roxio. It's installing now lol...
     
    DR650SE, Mar 5, 2009
    #1
  2. Vchat20

    Vchat20 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    42
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    16
    I don't think there's much choice you have. I haven't seen an application that can burn a cd on the fly from a disc in one drive to a blank in another let alone a dvd. There's just too much inconsistencies there. It's a much more reliable burn to burn data coming off a hard disk.

    Just make sure your hard drive has enough free space on it for the size of the dvd and let it go through its process.
     
    Vchat20, Mar 5, 2009
    #2