Satellite A30-203 Copy files onto DVD

Dear All
I can copy anything onto a CD-RW but I cannot transfer anything to a DVD + Recordable am I missing some important driver.
The Disk Drive I have is:- DVD/CD-RW Drive (D:)
Many thanks for help
Tandy
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Hmm, this was originally posted in Jan 2006, so the OP might not be back to see this, but there is an obvious problem that jumps out from the first post. The OP is using a DVD/CD-RW drive, NOT a DVD-RW/CD-RW combo drive.
A DVD/CD-RW drive only _READS_ DVDs, it is incapable of writing to DVDs no matter what software you use.
If you want to burn to a DVD, you must have a DVD-R/W drive (these usually also burn to CD-R and CD-RW)

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