OMG all my photos gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SuperSparks]

Standard DVDs hold 4.7GB (that is decimal GB, Windows will report the capacity as 4.58GB).

IIRC dual lkayer discs are 8.5GB. They are usually very expensive though, so it would probably be a lot more economical to use normal ones.

If you have a lightsscribe burner then you just need to buy some lightscribe discs. I don't know about the software required though - I've never used it myself.

[MPTech]

Thanks Super, I was figuring 4.5 gig when I burned my pictures last night. (all 3 DVDs are now safely at work and I do feel comforted in the fact that I have full offsite backup now).

I thought I heard that the dual layers were pricey, just confirms my justification to use the regular stuff.

I need to do some more research on the Lightscribe, I didn't see much information on it in the Burner manual.
Does anyone know if they make Lightsribe CDs? Might be cool for burning my music for listening in the car.

[SuperSparks]

Lightscribe CDs are certainly available on this side of the pond:

http://www.cd-rmedia.co.uk/CD-R-80mi...ibe-c-368.html

[spragers2]

Sound advice. Unfortunately, I recently *did* lose a good chunk of vacation photos . Dumped them to my hard drive, went and filled up another memory card worth of photos a few days later. Before I had time to make a CD backup, my HD messed up and I lost the entire first batch , along with all the edited photos I had worked on. My addition (and it may have already been stated) - don't erase that memory card until you've made *at least* two backups of your images, because once they're gone, they're gone!

[Philgo]

don't erase that memory card until you've made *at least* two backups of your images, because once they're gone, they're gone!

Very good advice indeed.

[Sasha007k]

just buy a hard drive of the same size as the one on ur pc, its a good investment, just boot of a utility cd and copy the whole drive over. store this hard drive somewhere safe and backup as frequently as you want, then youll be ready when it hits the fan

[usil]

You need Lightscribe DVD's to burn a picture on the disc. Most newer (Some versions of 6 and up)versions of Nero come with a Lightscribe module.