Copying to CD

[Tony Su]

When I try to copy files to CD using XP's built in burning
feature the Wizard does not see the blank media in the
CDRW Drive. (I noticed that in MY COMPUTER the CDRW
drive "D" changes to CD Drive "D" when I put in a blank
CD.) I have Nero Express installed and I have no problems
burning with this software. Anyone else having this
problem?

 

[JMR]

I haven't seen that but I know somebody who reported that XP was burning CDs
and was marking all the files as ReadOnly!! (on a CDRW drive)
That was on XP regular, not XP Pro...

Jean-Marc

 

[NobodyMan]

I haven't seen that but I know somebody who reported that XP was burning CDs
and was marking all the files as ReadOnly!! (on a CDRW drive)
That was on XP regular, not XP Pro...

Jean-Marc

And you expected the CDRW files to NOT be marked as read-only? The
simplistic mastering software included with WinXP does CD-Mastering,
not packet writing. Mastering software doesn't care if you are using
a CDR or a CDRW, it treats the file system the same way and marks all
the files as read-only.

If you want read/write capablity, then you need to install third-party
software that enables packet writing.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I haven't seen that but I know somebody who reported that XP was burningCDs
and was marking all the files as ReadOnly!! (on a CDRW drive)

That is because the method is really a CD-R one, burning full batches of
files, and you can only erase the disk as a whole (see
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm)

The burning wizard seems to work better if you start it *before*
inserting a CD and then put a blank one in when asked. Or if using a
disk where a session has been burned already, put it in and let it 'Open
to show files in Explorer'. You *must* have that as the setting for
Autoplay on the drive, and do *not* turn Autoplay off in say TweakUI