is it possible to burn DVD-R onto a DVD+R disc?

I havea client that wants a DVD-R copied (wants 5 copies) well he left me a
buch of DVD's turns out they are DVD+R. Normally I don't even pay attention
to what kind of DVD they are (+ or -) but Nero keeps saying that this
compliattion needs to be burned to a DVD-R disc (the original is on DVD-R)
and apparently my DVD burner is ONLY a DVD+R. (I was suprised, I msut of
bought my laptop right on the cusp when everyone has DVD+-R's my question,
is it possible to burn a DVD-R disc onto a DVD+R with a DVD+R burner? and if
so? how?

(Sorry for the long post)

 

Have you tried copying it to your hard drive and then burning from
there! Unless there is a size issue I don't see any reason why it
cannot be done!

 

I created an image of the disc to my drive and tried to burn it fomr there,
no luck. It's a Video DVD (it's this guys home video of something, so not
copywrighted) so I wanted to do a straight copy (it's made with a menu to
play in a regular DVD player) can I just copy the files?

 

Er, Yes thats what I ment ! I don't think that you can do it with an
image (ISO) because I think it may contain media type information !

 

hmm, I just copied all the files to my hard drive and then tried burning
those to a DVD+R and it dind't work....the files copied but it won't open as
a DVD and show teh menu like the original ones does.

any ideas?

 

Mmm! It beats me. Maybe you could ask the guy who created the original
one what he did to make it in the first place. I've done copies, via
HDD, between both formats and on to rewritable as well. I must admit
that I don't use M$ so there could be issues there!

Sorry I couldn't help.

 

So your friend gave you a disc that is a DVD-R that he wants you to
make copies of and gives you DVD+Rs? You should just beable to make the
ISO on your harddrive and use Nero to burn that ISO to any kind of DVD
your drive can burn. If you have made an ISO already, how big is the
ISO? If it's larger than 4.7GB then you probably have DVD+R, you will
need Double layers.

You can just drag and drop the files onto the disc, as you can't copy
certain invisible information and stuff that makes it readable by a DVD
Drive.

 

Solved the problem (sort of) took the disc home and burned it on my computer
here and it worked (using his same DVD+R discs) I don't quite understand
what the problem was, my laptop at work at a DVD+R burner 9which is what the
blanks were0 but it wouldn't work, I brought it home and used them on my
desktop (which has a + and - R burner) and it worked..... oh well

 

Laptop problem ! Hardware or Software ??
Glad you got it sorted.

Baron.