DVD-R

[Boozybaz]

you all remember that i was waiting 2 format?? well now i got my disks, i ordered 2 sets of CD-R's and some DVD-R's i can tell wich are the 2 sets of CD-R's as there labled so i guess the other disks that are left are the 4.7G DVD disks right?? well when i put them in my DVD drive it shows no details of size or space remaining, and same with my CD-RW drive

[jctoad]

Even with a cdr it will do that. I don't think that it will give you any info until you go to burn to the disk. If you want to test the disk get http://www.cdspeed2000.com/

[Boozybaz]

thanx JC so this tells you how big a CD-R or DVD-R is?

[Boozybaz]

right it shows 2... 1 for cd (cdspeed) and the other for dvd (dvdspeed) so do i need both, each to test differently???

or just 1 if so which?

[Layzie Bone (wanabe)]

DVD-R have 4.7 GB of space, however you can use all 4.7 of it since each disk CD & DVD needs to have what they call a library, like a 700 MB CD can hold about 690 MB because of it. You can get a DVD-R that have 27 GB of space, but it requires a speacial DVD burner, blue laser. My computer sees a dvd as a cd, but everything works right, the DVD plays, and so fourth. If you created a mutl-session DVD, then you'll have to open whatever burning software you use and get the latest session open and see how much free space you do have...