burning cd's

[Guest]

I have an external Iomega CD-RW burner. I do not like their software. Is
there a way of using the CD through Window's XP professional software to burn
CD's?

 

[T. Waters]

I have an external Iomega CD-RW burner. I do not like their
software. Is there a way of using the CD through Window's XP
professional software to burn CD's?

You can use Windows Media Player for music CD's.

For data, this is from Help and Support (keep in mind that once you make a
CD, you cannot add more to it later because for packet-writing you need a
3rd party app.):

To copy files and folders to a CD

1.. Insert a blank, writable CD into the CD recorder.
2.. Open My Computer.
3.. Click the files or folders you want to copy to the CD. To select more
than one file, hold down the CTRL key while you click the files you want.
Then, under File and Folder Tasks, click Copy this file, Copy this folder,
or Copy the selected items.
If the files are located in My Pictures, under Picture Tasks, click Copy
to CD or Copy all items to CD, and then skip to step 5.

4.. In the Copy Items dialog box, click the CD recording drive, and then
click Copy.
5.. In My Computer, double-click the CD recording drive. Windows displays
a temporary area where the files are held before they are copied to the CD.
Verify that the files and folders that you intend to copy to the CD appear
under Files Ready to be Written to the CD.
6.. Under CD Writing Tasks, click Write these files to CD. Windows
displays the CD Writing Wizard. Follow the instructions in the wizard.
Notes

a.. To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer.
b.. Do not copy more files to the CD than it will hold. Standard CDs hold
up to 650 megabytes (MB). High-capacity CDs hold up to 850 MB.
c.. Be sure that you have enough disk space on your hard disk to store the
temporary files that are created during the CD writing process. For a
standard CD, Windows reserves up to 700 MB of the available free space. For
a high-capacity CD, Windows reserves up to 1 gigabyte (GB) of the available
free space.
d.. After you copy files or folders to the CD, it is useful to view the CD
to confirm that the files are copied. For more information, click Related
Topics.

 

[Guest]

You can use Windows Media Player for music CD's.

For data, this is from Help and Support (keep in mind that once you make a
CD, you cannot add more to it later because for packet-writing you need a
3rd party app.):

To copy files and folders to a CD

1.. Insert a blank, writable CD into the CD recorder.
2.. Open My Computer.
3.. Click the files or folders you want to copy to the CD. To select more
than one file, hold down the CTRL key while you click the files you want.
Then, under File and Folder Tasks, click Copy this file, Copy this folder,
or Copy the selected items.
If the files are located in My Pictures, under Picture Tasks, click Copy
to CD or Copy all items to CD, and then skip to step 5.

4.. In the Copy Items dialog box, click the CD recording drive, and then
click Copy.
5.. In My Computer, double-click the CD recording drive. Windows displays
a temporary area where the files are held before they are copied to the CD.
Verify that the files and folders that you intend to copy to the CD appear
under Files Ready to be Written to the CD.
6.. Under CD Writing Tasks, click Write these files to CD. Windows
displays the CD Writing Wizard. Follow the instructions in the wizard.
Notes

a.. To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer.
b.. Do not copy more files to the CD than it will hold. Standard CDs hold
up to 650 megabytes (MB). High-capacity CDs hold up to 850 MB.
c.. Be sure that you have enough disk space on your hard disk to store the
temporary files that are created during the CD writing process. For a
standard CD, Windows reserves up to 700 MB of the available free space. For
a high-capacity CD, Windows reserves up to 1 gigabyte (GB) of the available
free space.
d.. After you copy files or folders to the CD, it is useful to view the CD
to confirm that the files are copied. For more information, click Related
Topics.

Hello, A little beyond your question. I have a Iomega external burner on a
98se system and use several different burner software products without
problem.
Take Care.
beamish.

 

[S.Sengupta]

'Burning CDs in Windows XP'
by Alex Nichol, MS-MVP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[Lil' Dave]

Hello, A little beyond your question. I have a Iomega external burner on a
98se system and use several different burner software products without
problem.
Take Care.
beamish.

Was wondering about that. So, one can use 3rd party software to do various
cd burning options other than just copy/paste in UDF format, or burning
music with WMP.

People may wonder about that if they want to burn video to CD, and share
with others who don't have XP. ISO 9600 format (universal) works fine here.
All 3rd party burning applications can do this.

 

[Guest]

Was wondering about that. So, one can use 3rd party software to do various
cd burning options other than just copy/paste in UDF format, or burning
music with WMP.

People may wonder about that if they want to burn video to CD, and share
with others who don't have XP. ISO 9600 format (universal) works fine here.
All 3rd party burning applications can do this.

Hello, I found that there is one caveat, Iomega HotBurnPro, at least v2.4, has a problem (sometimes) with other 3rd. party software. It stopped recognizing The burner, the other software had no such problem. The company suggested removing the other software and reinstalling Iomega HotBurnPro, I removed HotBurnPro and kept the other software.

Take Care.
beamish.