i love the help but i am a tad bit computer challenged. it is not that i don't try or that i am not capable of figuring it out. My computer is a couple of months old from wal-mart it is a compaq presario with windows 2000xp i think i wrote that info right. i so did not understand the whole info bit i am suppose to look up on the internet though. in all honesty i believe i don't not have the right program or media player to burn dvd-r could be wrong though. when i try to burn to dvd-r it says i have no disc in. All my media players(windvd,realplayer, window media player) i have when i go to burn it says cd burner. does that mean it will not burn to a dvd-r, the media player itself or is it just that my computer isn't capable of burning to dvd-r with my current hardware?