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<blockquote data-quote="hughvane" data-source="post: 1062184" data-attributes="member: 56231"><p>To determine which media is supported on your Mac, use System Profiler (which will be in either your Applications or Utilities folder). Click the ATA or SATA entry to the left to find the brand of optical drive you have installed in the Mac, and check Media Type. [For example, on this old G3 iMac, all I have available is CD-RW.]</p><p></p><p>The -R and +R indicators are telling you which density of media is on the blank dvd. DL = Dual Layer. DL disks will take up to 8 Gb, single layer 4.7 Gb.</p><p></p><p>In addition to Disk Utility, there's a free disk burning application called .... Burn! You'll find it here <a href="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21992/burn" target="_blank">Download Burn for Mac - Easily burn data, audio, video disks and more. MacUpdate Mac Software Downloads</a>.</p><p></p><p>Another - and legal - way to back up your Tiger Installation disk is simply to copy the disk to another disk. To do that though you'll need a second disk burner. Always handy to have an external firewire optical drive anyway.</p><p></p><p>One last thing - pleeeeeease put your Mac and OS specs in your profile. That way we can help you better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hughvane, post: 1062184, member: 56231"] To determine which media is supported on your Mac, use System Profiler (which will be in either your Applications or Utilities folder). Click the ATA or SATA entry to the left to find the brand of optical drive you have installed in the Mac, and check Media Type. [For example, on this old G3 iMac, all I have available is CD-RW.] The -R and +R indicators are telling you which density of media is on the blank dvd. DL = Dual Layer. DL disks will take up to 8 Gb, single layer 4.7 Gb. In addition to Disk Utility, there's a free disk burning application called .... Burn! You'll find it here [url=http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21992/burn]Download Burn for Mac - Easily burn data, audio, video disks and more. MacUpdate Mac Software Downloads[/url]. Another - and legal - way to back up your Tiger Installation disk is simply to copy the disk to another disk. To do that though you'll need a second disk burner. Always handy to have an external firewire optical drive anyway. One last thing - pleeeeeease put your Mac and OS specs in your profile. That way we can help you better. [/QUOTE]
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