Hi. I have a Gateway with a DVD burner. I am having trouble burning jpegs to a blank DVD. I tried Memorex DVD - R, and Fujifilm DVD - R and get an "illegal disk" error failure message. But when I use Memorex DVD - RW, everything works perfect. Sales clerk at CompUSA said some DVD burner software will not accept certain blank DVDs. I have another Gateway desktop in the other room that uses Veritis Record now DX, and the Memorex DVD - R, AND the Fujifilm DVD - R that I described above burn perfect on that system so the blank DVD - R's are good disks. So do I just go buy another brand and try that? (Wish I wouldn't have bought the 100 disk pack). James Lee.

How do you expect us to help if we don't even know the make/brand of the burner you have. i_XpUser

Most root cause points to the drive being picky about the media type and speeds. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nero+express+illegal+disk+error+dvd-r Evaluate your rig's gaming ability

Xpuser, Ha! Yup, now you catch me and my ignorance. I search Gateway support and enter my serial number and for DVD burner is has - NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A. The Gateway is a 500x, but that doens't really mean anything. The software is Nero 6.0.0.20. Is that it? I am saying I really don't even know how to go about finding out what brand of DVD burner it is. I thought it was a Gateway, but I guess it's not that simple maybe? Thanks for reply all. James Lee

lol - no, it's not that simple. Most PC manufacturers use multiple vendors for parts so your Gateway 500x may have an NEC brand burner while the next person to buy one may get a sony or something else. The following info you posted should be correct: NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A The only other way to verify is to open the case and read the make/model info off the burner itself.

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