Unable to format DVD-R after burning several DVDs

[Chris L]

I am back up-ing a huge data (around 100GB) to DVD.
After burning 4-5 DVDs, Vista keeps on prompting <Unable to format DVD> error.
I finally fed up and restarted Vista and retry again. This time it gives no
problem,..
until I burn 4-5 DVDs ....
Is this the problem with Vista or with my DVD writer?

Regards,
Chris

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

It's a huge amount of data, and the %TEMP% and the Virtual Memory demands on
the available space of your hard drive is probably stretched beyond
capacity. The DVD burning options allow you to point the temp files used in
burning to some other drive that has excess capacity. (You're going to need
4 gigs per DVD) Look at the Properties of the device in Device Manager.

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