Can DVD's be used like cd-rw's? That is, the contents of a DVD disc can be manipulated in the same way a hard disk, floppy disk, or USB flash drive might be? Where you can add and delete files like a hard drive? Thanks Paul

First off you will need DVD-RW/DVD+RW Media, second you would need on-the-fly burning software. Maybe a Google ? http://www.cdburnerxp.se/features.php "burn on-the-fly and with buffer-underrun protections"

"First off you will need DVD-RW/DVD+RW Media" This is not completely accurate. You need DVD -RW or DVD +RW Media to match your DVD Burner. Example If you have a DVD +RW Burner and you try to use DVD -RW in it it will not work!! I Have a DVD + & - RW Burner so it will take both types of DVD Disks. I use Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 to do what you are wanting to do. This software came with the DVD Burner!

Easy CD Creator, the version I use anyway, has a function call a directcd utility. It lets you format in my case a cd-rw. The disk now can be written to and files deleted like it is done on a floppy disk.

"The disk now can be written to and files deleted like it is done on a floppy disk" Well, not exactly, but something like that - if rewriteable DVDs are anything like their CD counterparts, then writng will probably be pretty slow (*much* slower than writing to a hard drive or USB stick) I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.