In my Inspirion 9100 i have the above DVD rewriter. Using Sonic recordNow that came with my system and a freeware program called deepburner I have not managed to record a perfect dvd of files - i get a cyclic read error when trying to read files back.

I did manage to burn a copy of Fedora Core 3 using its ISO but that was the only joy i had, even then i had errors reading some file sfrom the DVD duing installation onto another dvd drive.

I am using Packard Bell DVD+RW that run at speed 2.4-4x and have also treid some Sony DVD-R that write same speed range i think. The +RW deff are not working. I burned an ISO to the Sony, but couldnt tell you if thats worknig properly or not - but as the drive is suppsoed to be +-Rewritable it should work with the Packard Bell DVD+RW DVD that i have.

i am formatting the DVDs ing Sonic recordNow before using them, I dont think i should be donig anything else...can anybody give advice on this? DVDs read fine from the drive

Thx
G