Liteon DVD burner

dear all,

 

I have been fighting hard with this external DVD burner.

 

Its an external DVD writer, and i dont know what software to use the best and the easiest?

 

let me explain what has been happening.

 

i connected the external DVD writer to the USB port on my DELL, and firstly it detected it as a e: drive, but than later it would dissapear.  I right clicked on the properties and checked a few boxes to make it a writable device.  This than made it appear on my drive menu.  What confuses me a little, is that and i think this is were my problem is.  If i click on the E drive, and click on properties, all i see is disk space as being 0 and remaining disk space as being 0 too.  In the DVD drive which is the E: drive i had a 4.7GB DVD disk, so why didint it find the entire capacity?

 

My next issue, so i carried on, i transfered my movie from my camcorder onto the hardrive, and than i used a softwarec alled power drive, were i started to burn , but this menu had 2 section, the first section was showing the folders/menus created and it was showing in percentage mode, and the second section was the DVD burning sectrion.

 

I had left my computer on all night, and it took it 2 hours to do 20% of the creation of the menu and folders, let alone start burning the DVD.  I had to stop it and give up!

 

My 2 questions are why is it showing as o in the E: drive, when i have a 4.7gb DVD

 

What and how do i quickly burn the DVD, with an easy to use software.

 

I really appreciate this, as if you guys can send me a link or document to follow that be great.

 

surely it shouldnt take this long, even at 4x or 16x speed?

 

thanks all