Posted by Jeff on 03/14/06 09:21

Dave Mabry <dmabry@mich.com> wrote in news:4415FC7D.2010605@mich.com:

> terry195@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder if anyone can help me, I have just fitted a DVD-ROM in my
>> Dad's computer alongside the DVD rewriter that's already in it.
>>
>> I tried to test it by copying a tv programme recorded on DVD-R onto a
>> blank DVD-R using Nero but it just says that there's not enough room
>> on the blank. How can this be when they are both exactly the same
>> size disks? One of the programmes was only 45 minutes long so it's
>> not as if it was full. I'm confused..
>>
>> Any guidance would be much appreciated!
>>
>
> I have seen this symptom when the DVD recorder was a DVD-R and I was
> trying to copy (using Nero's Copy selection, not remastering) to a
> DVD+R. The +R format is just a slight number of sectors fewer than
> the -R format. Something that the standalone recorder did to the
> DVD-R that it made was telling Nero that every single sector was used.
> I had to use a DVD-R as the destination for the copy and then it
> worked.
>
> Could be your problem if you are using a +R as the destination of the
> copy.
>

I've had this problem a few times using a -R for both the source and
destination. I ended up using DVDDecrypter to copy the files to the hard
drive and then burning them.

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