Hi. I've been using IC7 with my other pc, with DVD-RW drive for a while, but I have just installed it on my new laptop and I can't get a disc to finish. Dell inspiron 8600, 1.7m, 1gb ram, 60gb hd, (hl-st-dn 4040n?) dvd+rw. I completed a direct copy of a dvd-r disc and saved it to hd. I finally found the drive update download and upgraded IC so it recognised my drive as a writer. I then tried to copy the .pdi hd image onto a DVD+R, and all seems fine, until I get to 100% and the pc just says finishing disc for the next 6 weeks! Firstly can I do a straight copy of a dvd-r to dvd+r? Are there format problems? If there are, what is the best way to overcome them? Note that I am using XP Pro and am not sure how to close down the none essential tasks, (I had no problem in win98, systray & explorer were all that was needed), but I don't know about XP. Is there a program that closes down processes automatically? IC7 seems to have problems working with background tasks. Any other ideas? Thanks for the help. :D