DVD formatted on Vista not seen in XP

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Greetings,
I have spent a couple of hours reading about how DVD's are manufactured, and
how long to expect them to last, but for my older desktop with a DVD ROM,
I'd like to make a FULL backup onto DVD using Acronis. Acronis made two
files under 4.0GB each and I transferred them to the Vista laptop for DVD
burning onto DVD+RW disks. After burning with the defaulted "Live File
System" format, I discovered that my desktop DVD ROM couldn't see anything
on the disk. I placed new unformatted disk and burned using "Mastered"
format. Again all copied to disk but could not be read by the DVD ROM.
Trying again, I formatted the disk using the lowest UDF version offered in
Vista (which is 1.5) with the same results. I would've checked version UDF
1.02 but it wasn't available.
I did not wish to buy a DVD burner for the old desktop tower (HP 8700
series), but wish to use DVD disks as last resort restoration, as I've
already had a falling with my external hard drive purchased a couple of
months ago.

Also, I was thinking of installing Roxio Creator 6 on the Vista laptop to
burn the DVDs as it might have a recognizable format that the desktop would
see. I do know that Roxio Creator 6 and Acronis Home 10 do not mix on the
same machine. Acronis can't find any hard disks with Creator 6 installed.

Any thoughts on how I can store on DVD for the older machine to read it?
Thank you!
Kevin


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