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Old 20th January 2011 | 12:19
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Your lists seems to exclude everything except DVD-R, DVD+R, and DVD+RW. SO I'm guessing they are steering you towards the fact that the original media was DVD, and therefore you'll need DVD-R or DVD+R to re-create them.

DVD-RW has been excluded by your list, and I'm assuming that DVD+RW should be excluded too. In my experience they are not good for creating bootable DVDs from. Whether DVD-R or DVD+R is the preferred choice is really down to the actual drive fitted to the machine. Nowadays though it rarely matters, as most new drives will use either.

DVD-RAM can't be used because it a random access media, and works a bit like a giant floppy disc. They are also awfully slow, so even it were possible, you wouldn't want to.
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