Patent ID: 7475188

Claim:
A method for automatically selecting a source drive and a destination drive when recording content to an optical medium, the method comprising: determining a type of optical media device present in a computing system for each optical media device in the computing system; determining a state of each optical medium present in the computing system for each optical medium detected in the computing system; determining a last used source drive and a last used destination drive; determining whether optical media is present in each of the last used source drive and the last used destination drive; and evaluating each of the last used source drive and last used destination drive, and each optical media detected to determine whether a last used optical media device for each of the last used source drive and the last used destination drive are selected for the source drive and the destination drive in a recording operation, wherein, if the last used optical media device for each of the last used source drive and the last used destination drive are not selected for the source drive and the destination drive in the recording operation, the method further includes evaluating additional detected optical media devices and additional optical media to determine the source drive and the destination drive when recording content to the optical medium.