Windows 7 Home Premium Imaging Issue

Hello! I was trying to make an image of my pc using windows 7 image backup tool, and using DVDs.

The problem is that i keep getting the message asking me to format the DVD (+R). When i do that it then asks me to lable a dvd and insert it...and then... i am asked to format again..and label ( exactly the same label ), press continue...and format...and label..and so on... so the process gets like stuck in the burning of the first DVD.

The CD-DVD writer is ok.

Help please,
And thanks for your time :)

Roderunner said:

Windows back up in my experience is not totally trustworthy, even more so, if using DVD's. Their are many free & paid tools that do it better.

Yes i am agree with Roderunne.

I installed the last driver for my CD-DVD writer, and it worked ... until the 5th DVD I inserted, it said the DVD had a problem..well...changed it for another one...same problem... change it again, and it worked :), continued to the 7th DVD where i wasted 1 blank-DVD more cause of the same problem, but it seems the problem comes from the blank-DVDs (don't know why)

Roderunner said:

Windows back up in my experience is not totally trustworthy, even more so, if using DVD's. Their are many free & paid tools that do it better.

Why Windows Back-up software would not be trustworthy? And why even more when using DVDs? I find really easy to create an image with the Win-7 Backup tool :) But, i wonder... if you say it isn't trustworthy... maybe .. when i (in the future) want to recover with the DVDs, it maybe not work?

Thanks for your time ( to all the ones that have replied )

( Sorry for my english, i know it isn't perfect at all )

Then i wasted a lot of money buying blank-dvds ( need a lot, because i want to make an image of about 100 GB )

I'll think ill use that Macrium thing, thx :)

No matter what backup software you use, DVDs are not a good media except for occasional drag and drops you may want to distribute. Use a cheap external HDD (or two!).

I use Windows imaging extensively and have never experienced a problem. I suggest you make up your own mind.
I also use Macrium for specific jobs and as a secondary imaging software. Imaging is too important to put your faith in a single software package.

I was also going to say why not image to an external drive. I don't know if Windows imaging is a problem or not but I use it and have the image on my external drive. And my image is larger than yours. I guess if I ever need to restore it I will find out if it works .