About space showing on a CD

[Dudley Henriques]

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could clear up something for me
on the proper way to interpret how much remaining space there is on a CD
being used in XP for data backup. This CD is unformatted and being used
in XP's burn program. No third party software such as Nero or Roxio is
present on the computer.
Here's what I'm showing on a partially used CD. I'm trying to figure out
how much space is remaining on the disk.
On the disk properties in explorer (and if I right click on the CD while
it's in the drive), I get the pink and blue pie chart. It's showing
14.1megs used and 429megs free. Capacity 443 megs.
Now, if I select all that's actually on the disk, both files and
folders, I get 501 files, 13 folders, and 180megs size, and 181 size on
disk.
Can someone please bring me up to speed on why these figures are so
different, and also which figures I should be using to tell me how much
space remains on this CD?
Many thanks,
Dudley

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Dudley,

Different tracks. WE is only reading one of them, don't believe what it
reads. The native burning app is lacking in many areas, this is one of them.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Dudley Henriques]

Thanks.
After much hassling with Nero, I finally decided to get rid of
everything and just go with the XP program.
Considering it's limitations, and considering you can't trust the
information on how much space is left on a CD, is there ANY way to know
when the disk is full other than an interrupt when transferring data
files to it?
Thanks Rick.
Dudley

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

| Thanks.
| After much hassling with Nero, I finally decided to get rid of
| everything and just go with the XP program.
| Considering it's limitations, and considering you can't trust the
| information on how much space is left on a CD, is there ANY way to know
| when the disk is full other than an interrupt when transferring data
| files to it?
| Thanks Rick.
| Dudley
| | > Hi Dudley,
| >
| > Different tracks. WE is only reading one of them, don't believe what
| > it reads. The native burning app is lacking in many areas, this is one
| > of them.
| >
| > --
| > Best of Luck,
| >
| > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
| >
| > Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
| >
| > Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
| >
| > | >>I would greatly appreciate it if someone could clear up something for
| >>me on the proper way to interpret how much remaining space there is on
| >>a CD being used in XP for data backup. This CD is unformatted and
| >>being used in XP's burn program. No third party software such as Nero
| >>or Roxio is present on the computer.
| >> Here's what I'm showing on a partially used CD. I'm trying to figure
| >> out how much space is remaining on the disk.
| >> On the disk properties in explorer (and if I right click on the CD
| >> while it's in the drive), I get the pink and blue pie chart. It's
| >> showing 14.1megs used and 429megs free. Capacity 443 megs.
| >> Now, if I select all that's actually on the disk, both files and
| >> folders, I get 501 files, 13 folders, and 180megs size, and 181 size
| >> on disk.
| >> Can someone please bring me up to speed on why these figures are so
| >> different, and also which figures I should be using to tell me how
| >> much space remains on this CD?
| >> Many thanks,
| >> Dudley
| >>
| >
| >

Google for, and download ISO Buster, a free utility that will show you
everything on an optical disk and how much space it's taking up. It is also
very handy for recovering data from optical disks when the OS can't read
them. My opinion, you shoulda stuck with Nero.

 

[Dudley Henriques]

Thank you. I'll give this a shot.
D