Travel Technology - Dual Layer DVD Media Question

I borrowed a friend's dual layer external DVD to backup my system and prepare for a clean install of XP to clear up a myriad of problems that have developed over the last 18 months.

I ordered dual layer media from buy.com at a good price (Office Depot was charging $10 per disk!!). When I read the back of the media, there was a warning that was abit ambiguous...

It stated using this disk in a non-dual layer burner could damage the disk or data...but does this mean:

1) I cannot burn this dvd using a non-dual layer burner, or

2) I cannot insert this dvd disk into my own standard dvd player to read the data after its burned

I want to be able to burn these dual layer disks on the dual layer burner, but then read them on my standard cd-rw/dvd disk drive in the laptop. If I do that, could I damage the disk and lose my data? I tried it with a test disk and my laptop dvd player read it OK.

:confused: confused :confused:

I'm going to guess the warning is referring to #1. Any DVD player will be able to read/play a dual-layer disc.

I just wish they would release some dual-layer re-writable discs!

Its #1.
You should be able to read from any drive with out a problem.

Just make sure you have the right media...I'm sure you do.
Some drives do dual +R and some are dual -R ...that isnt as a problem anymore with the single layers since most are +-R but the duals seem to prefer very specific media.

FYI Buy.com has a 25 pack of dual layer DVD+R media for $39.99 (http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10405802&loc=18131) with free shipping.

Thanks everyone. I think the Verbatim package labeling could have been clearer, but I will be comfortable storing my data on these disks.

Now I need to figure out how to burn a disk in under an hour :) Ghost 9 doesn't have an option to set record speed, and I think it's defaulting to 2x.