Cannot burn CD's on Win XP Home

[Dana Ware]

HI,

I'm running windows XP Home on several new Dell PC's at work and I cannot
burn CD's or erase CD R/W's.

The machines seem to recognize the drives as CD r/w but does not recognize
that a blank CD is inserted (either R or R/W types). This is on several PC's

I've tried to update the driver for these Sony R/W drives.

Any ideas ?

Thanks, Dana

 

[Hilary Karp]

XP natively can't write to cd-rw's. You need packet writing software
like Nero or Roxio's CD/DVD creator.

 

[Guest]

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"XP natively can't write to cd-rw's"
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this is not true!
xp can write and erase cd-rws!
but only the entire cd, not individual files or folders.
nero or roxio is needed to do packet writing.
if xp sees the drives as burners then you should be sure
the media you are using is compatible and not corrupt.
don

 

[dev]

/Dana Ware/ said:

I'm running windows XP Home on several new Dell PC's at work and I cannot
burn CD's or erase CD R/W's.

The machines seem to recognize the drives as CD r/w but does not recognize
that a blank CD is inserted (either R or R/W types). This is on several PC's

I've tried to update the driver for these Sony R/W drives.

Is recording enabled? In Windows Explorer, right-click on the CD drive,
then click PROPERTIES|RECORD tab.

 

[NobodyMan]

"XP natively can't write to cd-rw's"
---------------------------------------------------------
this is not true!
xp can write and erase cd-rws!
but only the entire cd, not individual files or folders.
nero or roxio is needed to do packet writing.
if xp sees the drives as burners then you should be sure
the media you are using is compatible and not corrupt.
don

Actually, you can write individual sessions to a CDRW, just as a CDR,
with XP native tools. You don't have to think you can only write to
it once and then, with 650MB free, and you having more files, you have
to erase it before you reuse it.

XP allows multiple sessions on a CDRW just like a CDR.

What XP won't due is packet-writing. No drag and drop or individual
file erasing.