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invader
All I wanted to do was to burn a data DVD...
It all started a month ago when Vista made me uninstall the tried and true
nero burning rom that has always worked fine for me due to "compatibility
issues".
So today I try to burn a data dvd... should be a simple task, right?
Let's start by using the great "reason to upgrade to Vista", the desktop
search. I type in "Create CD". It brings up something called create CD. This
is going to be easy. So I click it. Nope. It's an ancient version of Adaptec
Easy CD Creator that Vista dug out of my old XP install that (unsurprisingly)
doesn't work.
Now, let's try "burn". This time search brings up the copy of Nero Burning
Rom that vista had me uninstall. Not surprisingly that doesn't work either.
Okay, so let's look on the web. I google for "windows vista burn data cd"
(this ought to work, right?) Well this brings up a link talking about how to
use Windows Media Player to burn a cd. So I try that. total confusing mess.
which is no big surprise, because it's a goddamn media player, not a data-cd
burning tool.
So I start playing with windows explorer and I notice I can click on things
and "Send to" the DVD-RW drive. It prompts me to insert a blank disc. Okay,
we're making progress. Then it pops up and says "formatting disc" (uh oh,
it's a DVD-R). Not surprisingly it fails.
So I try "Send to" "Direct CD". Okay, this ought to work. Same prompt for
inserting a blank disc. Same stupid attempt to format it. I try it once more,
this time I select "more information" and I see that it's trying to create a
"live filesystem" on the DVD-R media. So I fix that and hit okay.
Great! Now we start "copying files"... progress is being made... This takes a
long time and I get suspicious when I see that my DVD drive isn't spinning.
So now pops up a window showing me the files on the DVD-ROM drive and asking
me if I want to burn them (apparantly the previous step involved simply
copying them from one location on the hard drive to a different, but more
meaningful to Vista, location on the hard drive). So I click "next" like the
good Microsoft user that I am.
So now we're "adding data to the disc image". I can see the hard drive light
going nuts, so I assume that we are once again copying the files from one
part of the hard drive to yet another location that must be an even better
spot for vista to locate the files.
Suspicious, I take a look at my c:\ drive and see free space plummetting to
new lows. Yes, I'm aware the disc image is about 4 GB. Vista ought to be
aware of this too, but it's still trying to copy all of the files (a third
time) into 3 GB of remaining free space.
Of course, the result is inevitable: "Not Enough Space on Hard Drive" and
vista boots the offending un-burned DVD back out of the drive.
Is this OS a huge leap forward or what???
--invader
Games I Play:
The Cerberus Incident, http://www.landofdev.com/cerberus/
Beer Asteroids, http://www.sb-software.com/beerasteroids/
It all started a month ago when Vista made me uninstall the tried and true
nero burning rom that has always worked fine for me due to "compatibility
issues".
So today I try to burn a data dvd... should be a simple task, right?
Let's start by using the great "reason to upgrade to Vista", the desktop
search. I type in "Create CD". It brings up something called create CD. This
is going to be easy. So I click it. Nope. It's an ancient version of Adaptec
Easy CD Creator that Vista dug out of my old XP install that (unsurprisingly)
doesn't work.
Now, let's try "burn". This time search brings up the copy of Nero Burning
Rom that vista had me uninstall. Not surprisingly that doesn't work either.
Okay, so let's look on the web. I google for "windows vista burn data cd"
(this ought to work, right?) Well this brings up a link talking about how to
use Windows Media Player to burn a cd. So I try that. total confusing mess.
which is no big surprise, because it's a goddamn media player, not a data-cd
burning tool.
So I start playing with windows explorer and I notice I can click on things
and "Send to" the DVD-RW drive. It prompts me to insert a blank disc. Okay,
we're making progress. Then it pops up and says "formatting disc" (uh oh,
it's a DVD-R). Not surprisingly it fails.
So I try "Send to" "Direct CD". Okay, this ought to work. Same prompt for
inserting a blank disc. Same stupid attempt to format it. I try it once more,
this time I select "more information" and I see that it's trying to create a
"live filesystem" on the DVD-R media. So I fix that and hit okay.
Great! Now we start "copying files"... progress is being made... This takes a
long time and I get suspicious when I see that my DVD drive isn't spinning.
So now pops up a window showing me the files on the DVD-ROM drive and asking
me if I want to burn them (apparantly the previous step involved simply
copying them from one location on the hard drive to a different, but more
meaningful to Vista, location on the hard drive). So I click "next" like the
good Microsoft user that I am.
So now we're "adding data to the disc image". I can see the hard drive light
going nuts, so I assume that we are once again copying the files from one
part of the hard drive to yet another location that must be an even better
spot for vista to locate the files.
Suspicious, I take a look at my c:\ drive and see free space plummetting to
new lows. Yes, I'm aware the disc image is about 4 GB. Vista ought to be
aware of this too, but it's still trying to copy all of the files (a third
time) into 3 GB of remaining free space.
Of course, the result is inevitable: "Not Enough Space on Hard Drive" and
vista boots the offending un-burned DVD back out of the drive.
Is this OS a huge leap forward or what???
--invader
Games I Play:
The Cerberus Incident, http://www.landofdev.com/cerberus/
Beer Asteroids, http://www.sb-software.com/beerasteroids/