I recently bought a Plextor PX-708A. I bought it for a few reasons, to back up my hard drives, to make backups of my CD's and DVD's. I like to use my backups so if I break one I still have the original to make another backup. Anyway, I can not make copies of my programs or DVD's because of the copyright protection. I was able to make copies with my older CDRW without a problem. I am using the latest version of Easy CD Creator that came with the burner and I also have tried to burn with Nero. Is there something that I need to do or a program that I need in order to make backups?

To back up DVDs you can try CloneDVD. Easy to use in one step. Run though AnyDVD first for ripping.

http://www.elby.ch/en/products/clone_dvd/index.html

http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html

Stelios

If you want to backup software/games to a DVD, there is a nice solution (at least, I think so).

First, make ISO images of your original discs. Burn these ISO images to a data DVD. If you want to use an image, simply mount it with some virtual drive program (Nero and Alchohol come with a virtual drive, or simply download the incredibly and free Daemon tools).

I did the same some time ago... works like a charm (and I always can carry my programs with my laptop, on a few DVD discs).