Burning CDs... XP vs EZ CD Creator

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Darrell

Just to see how it works I used XP Explorer to copy and burn a folder to my
CD-RW drive. It worked fine. Just to experiment further I opened EZ CD
Creator and clicked on Disk.... Disk Information. It showed the CD had a
session already written to it (from XP) and that it was still recordable. I
dragged a file from my hard drive to the CD area to be written by EZ CD.
When I did that, it hung up trying to read what was already on the CD for
display (which EZ CD always does before the new burn). I had to use
Ctrl-Alt-Delete to regain use of my CD-R drive.

Always a glutton for punishment I opened Explorer, copied and pasted another
folder to my CD-RW and burned it to the CD using XP. No problem. It
appears that having used XP's CD writing to a CD ruins that CD for writing
from another program? Would the opposite be true? That if I had started a
CD burn on a fresh CD-R using EZ CD and then later tried to burn more data
to that CD using XP's writing capability it wouldn't work? I'm running low
on CD-R discs or I'd try it myself. Anyone here tried?
 
Why don't you try it with a CD-RW disk?
I did, and I disabled the WinXP CD-burning feature for ever afterwards : too
limited, and too incompatible with other software (even EZCD that comes from
the same maker : what a shame).
 
Darrell said:
Just to see how it works I used XP Explorer to copy and burn a folder to my
CD-RW drive. It worked fine. Just to experiment further I opened EZ CD
Creator and clicked on Disk.... Disk Information. It showed the CD had a
session already written to it (from XP) and that it was still recordable. I
dragged a file from my hard drive to the CD area to be written by EZ CD.
When I did that, it hung up trying to read what was already on the CD for
display (which EZ CD always does before the new burn). I had to use
Ctrl-Alt-Delete to regain use of my CD-R drive.

Always a glutton for punishment I opened Explorer, copied and pasted another
folder to my CD-RW and burned it to the CD using XP. No problem. It
appears that having used XP's CD writing to a CD ruins that CD for writing
from another program? Would the opposite be true? That if I had started a
CD burn on a fresh CD-R using EZ CD and then later tried to burn more data
to that CD using XP's writing capability it wouldn't work? I'm running low
on CD-R discs or I'd try it myself. Anyone here tried?

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Darrell R. Schmidt
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The built in CD burning for XP treats CDR & CD-RW the same.

You need packet writing software such as DirectCD in order to be able to
use a CD-RW as a floppy.

Terry
 
Darrell said:
Just to see how it works I used XP Explorer to copy and burn a folder tomy
CD-RW drive. It worked fine. Just to experiment further I opened EZ CD
Creator and clicked on Disk.... Disk Information. It showed the CD had a
session already written to it (from XP) and that it was still recordable. I
dragged a file from my hard drive to the CD area to be written by EZ CD.
When I did that, it hung up trying to read what was already on the CD for
display (which EZ CD always does before the new burn). I had to use
Ctrl-Alt-Delete to regain use of my CD-R drive.

Always a glutton for punishment I opened Explorer, copied and pasted another
folder to my CD-RW and burned it to the CD using XP. No problem. It
appears that having used XP's CD writing to a CD ruins that CD for writing
from another program? Would the opposite be true?
Click to expand...

Not sure which version of Easy CD you were using, but in my experience
with version 4 you need to explicitly import a session before you can
simply add another in a multisession structure. XP burning burns a
standard ISO session, just like Easy CD, and closes it, leaving the disk
open.

I have mixed sessions with Easy CD 4.05 and the inbuilt burning - to
see - but on the whole advise not mixing any burn package with another
on the same disk.
 
F1Com said:
The built in CD burning for XP treats CDR & CD-RW the same.

You need packet writing software such as DirectCD in order to be able
to
use a CD-RW as a floppy.
Click to expand...
The drive is a CD-RW, but as I said, I was burning to a CD-R CD.
 
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