Using the PC

When the disc formatting is complete, you can copy your files directly to the disc in My Computer by:

Dragging a file from a Windows Explorer window to your drive icon.

Or

Selecting Save As from within some programs, and then saving the file to your drive.

Or

Right-clicking a file, selecting Send To, and then selecting your drive.

After you record your files, if you want to read the DLA-formatted disc on most other CD-ROM drives, you must make the disc compatible: Insert your disc into your drive, right-click the DVD Writer drive icon or the CD Writer drive icon, and then select Make Compatible.

The Make Compatible feature in DLA makes uncompressed CD-R and DVD+R discs readable by most read-only CD or DVD drives, even if DLA is not installed in the PC. When you make a disc compatible, DLA closes the session on your disc. This means:

With a DVD+R, you are not able to add data to the disc.

With a CD-R, you are able to add more data in another recording session, but you need to select Make Compatible again after you add the files.

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Getting Started