Has anyone seen a DVD burner that supports Windows 98SE? Many thanks DaveB

It is not the DVD which needs support, Windows should recognise the drive if it is installed correctly. The DVD Burning Software needs to support the DVDR Drive.

Yes, there are many that will run with Win98SE. However, I have not seen any that can run on a 450MHz processor. I saw one that ran with a 500MHz and all others (that I have seen) require at least 800MHz and recommend no less than 1.2GHz. They also require a minimum of 256MB RAM. There are plenty of CDRW drives that will work fine on your setup. (A little more RAM would help prevent making coasters though.) Regards, Bryan

Sure, as hiho stated, a DVDRW is just another drive as far as Windows is concerned. The burner software you use needs to run under Win98SE. I am on a Win98se/Win2000 machine now that has both CDRW and DVDRW drives installed and functional in both OSes. Your hardware barely meets the minimium requirements for burning DVDs. Be sure the drive has buffer underrun technology.

If your software supports writing an image to the hard drive first, you will get better results. You just need more disk space and time.

"Has anyone seen a DVD burner that supports Windows 98SE?" Even a 486 PC with W95 will recognise a DVDR Drive. It is assumed to actually burn you need a PIII / 128MB Mem minimal, but that was not the questioned asked!!

I have a old P2 500MHz with 512 MB of ram that burns dvd data ok at 2.4x or 4x. If you don't have a fast hard drive & ata speed forget it you will get all kinds of buffer underrun errors. I'm running a 80 gig 7200rpm on a ata 133 controller card which helps smooth things along. The old 8 gig on the motherboards ata 66 didn't cut it. ASUS A7V8X AMD XP 2700+ 2.17ghz 768mb ddr 2700 nVidia 128mb FX 5200 WD 80gb SE DVD R/RW