I need to carry out the initial Back-Up of my Vista Home Premium OS from my new laptop the 'Advent 8117'. Installed on the laptop is a DVD +/-RW, therefore I imagine that I can use either RW DVD + or -, am I right?
When my system pops up the message to insert a DVD for back up purposes it asks for a DVD -R disc to be inserted, do I have to use the format of disc as specified when my system has a DVD +/- RW?
2007-09-16 21:43:28 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
You should be able to put a + or - into it and have it work just fine. It should also handle rewritable disks but might not, try putting a -R or +R disk in and seeing if that works (though you can only write once to them).
2007-09-16 22:38:38 · answer #1 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I backed up my restore partition it would not accept a RW disk. Also the 2nd DVD had to be the same type as the 1st DVD. When the 2nd DVD would not write - after many tries and many wasted DVDs a call to HP support and they said they would mail the restore DVDs.
2007-09-17 05:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by Sp II Guzzi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its probably asking for dvd-r as it has more space plus theres no risk of accidental deltion as dvd-rw files can be deleted.
2007-09-17 09:27:40 · answer #3 · answered by A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any type of DVD-R should be fine
2007-09-17 04:52:36 · answer #4 · answered by barhud 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋