I used this mainly for dropping/dragging data files to back them up. It worked fine for a while, but after a while when I tried to format a new CD-RW, it got hung up in the verification process in an infitine loop and wouldn't even let me shut it down without rebooting the computer. The installation disk has a "repair" option, which I used several times successfully, but eventually even that didn't work. This is the first time I've ever seen a "repair" option on an installation disk, and now regard that as a very red flag that the software has some major problems. Try something else before trying either the Basic or the Platinum versions, as I had the same trouble with both of them.