Saving to a CD

[Jack Poltorak]

I have a client that was able to save files to a CD
directly from MS Word. I installed the MS Patches onto
her system. Several days later she was trying to save her
files direct to the CD and it did not work. Here is the
error. She also is able to continue to do this from Quick
Books. What happens is that she selects to save the file
to the CDR. It places it into a pending status and then
asks to finalize the write to the CD. After that, it
writes it to it.

Word cannot save or create this file. Make sure that the
disk you want to save the file on is not full, write
protected or damamged.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

She does have a CD Burner.
MS XP with all of the latest patches.
Using Explorer, we were able to save the document to the
CD.
We also were able to save other documents through Roxio
to the same CD.

Thank You,
Jack Poltorak

 

[Guest]

Is it the same cd? Is the cd read/write?
Sounds like they are not using the correct type of cd or
they had closed the cd out so it cant be rewritten to.

 

[Wislu Plethora]

-----Original Message-----
I have a client that was able to save files to a CD
directly from MS Word. I installed the MS Patches onto
her system. Several days later she was trying to save her
files direct to the CD and it did not work. Here is the
error. She also is able to continue to do this from Quick
Books. What happens is that she selects to save the file
to the CDR. It places it into a pending status and then
asks to finalize the write to the CD. After that, it
writes it to it.

Word cannot save or create this file. Make sure that the
disk you want to save the file on is not full, write
protected or damamged.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

She does have a CD Burner.
MS XP with all of the latest patches.
Using Explorer, we were able to save the document to the
CD.
We also were able to save other documents through Roxio
to the same CD.

Thank You,
Jack Poltorak

Your "client"? Does this refer to person foolish enough to
pay an ignoramus to "fix" a computer? The only way the
client could have saved directly to CD would be if the
disc had been formatted for packet writing first. The disc
in question has not been properly formatted. Since you
seem to be being paid for your services, I will leave it to
you to actually do some work and find out how your client
can go about formatting a disc.

 

[sgopus]

The CD needs to be formatted with Roxio to enable saving
like a hard disk, Xp doesn't natively support drag and drop
to a CD, once formatted using Roxio you can drag and drop
with any program, be sure to close out the CD before eject.

 

[sgopus]

You have a serious attitude problem, get rid of the
I'm better than you crap, and just offer advise.

 

[Dave Cohen]

You have a serious attitude problem, get rid of the
I'm better than you crap, and just offer advise.

Well, the only problem with the above is native xp writing doesn't require a
formatted disk. Try reading the original post carefully, the op does give a
correct, albeit not too clear description of the process. If after reading
it again you still don't understand that's too bad.
I'm not sure what the problem might be except that you cannot use the native
xp method reliably if any form of packet writing is installed.
Dave Cohen

 

[sgopus]

So Dave, what your saying is that the native cd burning
portion of XP doesn't work all that well,and a third
party piece of software would be a better choice???
Now that you mention it, I seem to remember that DirectCD
causes problems in XP, and only the newer versions
of nero work without problems, am I correct??
I would prefer NERO anyway, I like it's features..

 

[NobodyMan]

The CD needs to be formatted with Roxio to enable saving
like a hard disk, Xp doesn't natively support drag and drop
to a CD, once formatted using Roxio you can drag and drop
with any program, be sure to close out the CD before eject.

Of course it doesn't "have to formatted with Roxio." ANY
packet-writing program will work. InCD does have the limitation of
only being able to work with CDRW media, though.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a client that was able to save files to a CD
directly from MS Word. I installed the MS Patches onto
her system. Several days later she was trying to save her
files direct to the CD and it did not work.

To do that requires that you have a third party 'packet writing' program
installed, eg Direct CD (now called Drag to Disk by Roxio); InCD or DLA.

It would seem that there used to be one but it has come *uninstalled*,
or possibly that someone has 'enabled recording' again in the Drive's
Properties and that has taken over. That inbuilt burning does not work
in this way, but just stashes files up to be written later using a
different method; it does not support output from a program

 

[sgopus]

Makes you see why there is so much violence in the world
these days.
Please read the OP, it specifically states she used
Roxio and has it in her machine, so why should I tell
her to use something different, or buy something else?