Cannot burn disc

[Guest]

I cannnot burn a disc by doing drag/drop of files. See attached. Everytime I
insert a fresh blank CD-RW and do a drag/drop it forces me to format the
disc. When its done, and I try again it won't allow me to drag and drop
anything.

http://talkjesus.com/cd.gif

 

[Beck]

I cannnot burn a disc by doing drag/drop of files. See attached. Everytime
I
insert a fresh blank CD-RW and do a drag/drop it forces me to format the
disc. When its done, and I try again it won't allow me to drag and drop
anything.

Have you tried actually going through the motions to copy image to disc,
rather than dragging the file?

 

[Guest]

I rebooted and now I get this

http://talkjesus.com/cd2.gif

 

[Guest]

1. How do I do that?

2. Why is drag/drop not working and forcing me to format?

 

[Beck]

1. How do I do that?

2. Why is drag/drop not working and forcing me to format?

ISO files do not work like that. What you have is a proper disc image, not
just a program you can put onto disc. You should really also use a CDR and
not a rewritable one.
What sort of burning program are you using?

 

[Guest]

I'm simply using vista's windows explorer to drag drop. I've never had such a
problem before. I'm not sure where you get "iso" in the first place. I never
mentioned such. I am simply copying an unzipped copy of windows xp home
(drag/drop) so I can install it on a virtual pc to run programs not
compatible with vista. I had to use this copy (not a cd) as the cd's I have
is IBM standard (7 of them) and that will overwrite vista if I did it that
way.

As a matter of fact, I even dragged/dropped a single text file - same error.

 

[Guest]

I just inserted another unformatted blank disc and it poppped up a dialog box
wanting to force me (no other option at least) to format this disc. Why?

 

[Beck]

I'm simply using vista's windows explorer to drag drop. I've never had
such a
problem before. I'm not sure where you get "iso" in the first place. I
never
mentioned such. I am simply copying an unzipped copy of windows xp home
(drag/drop) so I can install it on a virtual pc to run programs not
compatible with vista. I had to use this copy (not a cd) as the cd's I
have
is IBM standard (7 of them) and that will overwrite vista if I did it that
way.

Sorry Chad, with all the posts of people wanting to know how to burn the
vista disc I totally got the wrong end of the stick of your post.

 

[Breaker]

I'm simply using vista's windows explorer to drag drop. I've never had such a
problem before. I'm not sure where you get "iso" in the first place. I never
mentioned such. I am simply copying an unzipped copy of windows xp home
(drag/drop) so I can install it on a virtual pc to run programs not
compatible with vista. I had to use this copy (not a cd) as the cd's I have
is IBM standard (7 of them) and that will overwrite vista if I did it that
way.

As a matter of fact, I even dragged/dropped a single text file - same error.

:

I have not tried the built in burning in Vista so not sure. But if
Vista is like XP...drag and drop burning is not supported.

 

[Guest]

Vista certainly does support drag & drop burning! In fact, with the "live
format" you can also update and delete files on the disc! If the disc is
blank, it WILL force a format first!
Regards,
Mike L

 

[Guest]

I have the exact same problem. It is not that I cannot use a seperat burning
program, but I just want to figure out why I cannot make it work, using
Vistas built in function.
It doesn't matter whether I drag and drop; or choose "copy to disc"; or
right-click on a file and choose "send to" -> "DVD-drive".
It doesn't matter whether it is a CD-R or a CD-RW disc.
I simply manage to format lots of discs...

I hope Microsoft has this fixed in the final release.