How to burn a dvd+rw?

How Can i Get External Dvdrw to Burn? PLEASE HELP?

• I have a external dvd-rw i purchased thru ebay nearly 2 yrs ago, with the purpose of burning cds as my packard bell connect 1150 (quite old) has no burner, just cd-rom drive. NOW...when using the external drive with Nero burner it loses connection just at the start of burning, after buffering. sometimes it will shutdown computer and say there is a serious error. this is the same with deep burner and others iv tried. Why cant it do it? it is a usb 2.0, and my pc is the older version but still detects. i can listen to cds and dvds (except the codec stuff), but i just cant burn. only once i managed to burn 2 tracks which was a small file size, tracks i downloaded of youtube. this was on deep burner. Is there any thing i can do do actually burn it? or burning programs that my pc would be compatible with? im at wits end as this is a capable dvdrw drive, but its bringing me no use for this long time. i know my pc is quite old but hey. thanks guys

• Answer:

  Sounds like the burner is the problem, not the software.