One area to check with XP is the properties for your DVD drive. I've seen cases where Roxio or other software included with XP tries to grab control of the cd or dvd when one is inserted and hence the problem you describe.

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Highlight, then select properties for your dvd drive
In the AutoPlay tab, select no action for ALL different types of data.
In the Recording tab, UNcheck "CD Recording on this drive".

Ok, Ok, etc. then reboot.

(I'm assuming you've checked Symantec website to be sure your dvd is on supported list)

What software (Roxio, Nero, etc) do you use to burn cds and dvds?

Let us know if this helps and fixes your problem.

Kent, sorry...darn.  I have seen several Dell pc's with that specific problem.  Usually it is some other cd/dvd software that is grabbing the drive before Ghost gets to it.

In one case I had to uninstall the RecorditNow software that came with Dell to resolve it.  (Maybe I could have just set one of the RecordItNow options to not allow drag-n-drop recording, but I didn't pursue that).

You can look on the Dell website www.dell.com for updates to your burning software and/or to the Ghost gear software that does the burning.

This is not the answer you asked for, but several people here including myself, take backups to another hard drive just as you do, but then later burn one of those (using Nero, etc) to DVD.  I check the option in Ghost 10 to limit sizes to 4400 megabytes (type over the number displayed to get 4400).  I take full/independent backups and every month or so I burn one of those to DVD.

Let us know the magic answer if you resolve it.  Look on some of the other threads here for DVD with Ghost 9 or Ghost 10 issues.

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Do you mean you can't burn files to your DVD using any method?  I didn't quite understand your "cannot backup either to DVD" statement.

Are these internet DVD drives or external usb drives?

You said you can successfully use Ghost 9 to backup directly to DVD, correct?

The main changes in Ghost 10 are drivers for SATA and some changes for Recovery Point Sets which are (in my opinion) not that signficant.  Ghost 9 does 99% of what I want/need.

Ok, i have to clarfy a lot (of my frustations;)

I have a new Dell Dimension 5150 with a Sonic DVD. .

And now, some more clarifying

1. At first the rescue CD. It's true you only need it when things are realy bad. And that moment jou can wait more then half an hour to load it?

2. I wrote (burn) succesfully an image to DVD. No error messages, but when i tried to restore it, no succes (image not readbale or later last disk of set). I didn't trie it only once, i explored a lot of possibilities (differnet media, programs, drivers). Including buying another DVD drive (Freecom FX10, external USB2.0).

3. I didn't use earlier versions on this (new) computer. I never made a succesfull backup now.

Regards, TDVD.

Kent,

In an effort to verify that Ghost 10 works on imaging directly to DVD (with multi-DVD's), I ran a test myself:

I created a Ghost 10 definition to image my c: to my Pioneer A105 (supported) DVD drive.

Everything was progressing fine.  After about 10 minutes, I got a message:

File ... is being created. Insert Media 2 into drive s:

At this point the drawer opened, and I inserted the second DVD.

NOTHING HAPPENED !#@%$

It never continued on writing the rest of the image.  It was 76% complete before the message to change media.

(In the past as I mentioned I have always imaged to a spare hard drive and broken it into 4400 MB splits.  Then used Nero to burn each split onto a DVD.  I have even verified the DVD's and they are ok.)

So, now I'm looking for advice too!      

I don't have any kind of drag-n-drop software running; I've never had problems burning cd's or dvd's.  In fact my Pioneer DVD writer is a couple years old, 4x.

Hi All:

I still like Ghost, maybe because I have been using it for many years.  But I could not solve my DVD problem and do not want to spend any more time on it at the moment.  I really need a backup that I want to take off site so I bought an external drive and will just do it that way.  I don't like unsolvable problems so this does bother me and perhaps I will figure it out some time.  Thanks again for your help, John.

Kent

I just tried again, but this time trying to image to my internal TDK CDR burner.  Same results.  Ghost 10 (gear software) appears to be just "waiting" to be notified that the second cdr has been inserted.

Brian (and anyone else), any ideas?