CD burner

[Carl G]

Hi All
I posted this earlier today but never showed up in my news reader,so I will
try again.
In windows XP ,when you burned to CD ,XP always put the temp files on the
drive so you could look at them and edit them. In Vista it burns them
directly to the CD. You have no chance to edit or look if you even have the
right files.Any one can make a mistake you know.
Is there a way to change this procedure.
Thanks

 

[Jan Hyde]

"Carl G" <cgerving@msnDOTcom>'s wild thoughts were released

Hi All
I posted this earlier today but never showed up in my news reader,so I will
try again.
In windows XP ,when you burned to CD ,XP always put the temp files on the
drive so you could look at them and edit them. In Vista it burns them
directly to the CD. You have no chance to edit or look if you even have the
right files.Any one can make a mistake you know.
Is there a way to change this procedure.
Thanks

You don't say how your adding the files.

If I add a file to be burned I see an entry in

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn\Burn

I then get a popup telling me there are files ready for
burning.



Jan Hyde (VB MVP)

 

[Conor]

Hi All
I posted this earlier today but never showed up in my news reader,so I will
try again.
In windows XP ,when you burned to CD ,XP always put the temp files on the
drive so you could look at them and edit them. In Vista it burns them
directly to the CD. You have no chance to edit or look if you even have the
right files.Any one can make a mistake you know.
Is there a way to change this procedure.
Thanks

Not my experience. In my experience, you can click on the CD/DVD writer
icon in Explorer and it'll show all the files ready to burn. You can
then do what you wish with them.

 

[Carl G]

Hi Conor
I wish that is how mine would work.
If I right click on a file and click copy,then right click on my burner
drive and click paste,(if there is no cd_dvd in the drive it will tell me
,please put cd in drive.If I don't put cd in , it will do nothing.If I put
cd in) then it burns the file directly to the cd. It don't stage the file
anywhere. I have 2 DVD burner drives and it does the same on both drives.
Anyone have a cure for this?
Thanks

 

[Carl G]

Hi Again
Any more ideas here.
I just went and installed Vista on another pc and get the same results.
Which is= Vista burns files I copy from a folder on my pc ,when I paste
them to burner drive,directly to cd.Does not store or stage then so I can
tell it to burn to cd.
How do I change this, I want to look at the temp files on the drive so I can
say burn or add more or delete some,but I don't get this option.
Copy , paste just starts the burn process for each pasted item.

 

[Guest]

Hi Again
Any more ideas here.
I just went and installed Vista on another pc and get the same results.
Which is= Vista burns files I copy from a folder on my pc ,when I paste
them to burner drive,directly to cd.Does not store or stage then so I can
tell it to burn to cd.
How do I change this, I want to look at the temp files on the drive so I can
say burn or add more or delete some,but I don't get this option.
Copy , paste just starts the burn process for each pasted item.

I right click and send to dvd/cd burner. It will then copy files to a temp
folder for burning. you can edit there just like xp or you can put a blank cd
in the drive and select burn files to cd and it will open the temp folder and
ask you to drag files to it.

I never even knew you could do a paste directly to the burned go figure

 

[Carl G]

Hi bp
Ya in XP thay is how I always did it. ( copy paste )
I haven't tried that send to option. I will give that a try. Ill let you
know what happens.

 

[Carl G]

Hi Guys and Gals
Well the send to option didn't work either.
All I get when I send to or copy and paste or copy to folder is, the cd tray
opens and get a message to insert a cd , and if I have a cd in the tray , it
starts burning to cd right away , no stageing of temp files on the drive.
I have 2 computers with vista home premium and both do the same thing.
Why is that.

 

[Bill]

In Xp, you right click on the cd/dvd drive and select properties. This
will bring up a tabbed menu. There is a recording tab, which allows you
to select Enable cd recording. I would imagine, that you would find
something similar in Vista. Since I will not let Vista anywhere near my
computer, you will have to let me know.

 

[Carl G]

I don't believe this. Am I the only guy in the whole world with this
problem?

 

[Carl G]

Hi Guys
Dosen't anyone have a answer to this problem?
Yesterday I put in a CD with lots of files on it and it came up and did it
right. Windows staged the file I wanted to burn and I had to click on burn
to disc. that is the only time this has happened.
Today it just burns each file I copy to burner directly to the disc,no
stageing of temp files.
What is wrong with my windows burning software?
Been waiteing for a answer or sugestion now for a week,can someone help me
out here.
Thanks

 

[Sly Dog]

Carl,

When the Burn to Disc titling dialogue first appears, you have to click on
the lower left down arrow to expose the two burning options.

Why the hell M$ doesn't expose these two options by default is beyond me!

VISTA; the new and improved Pandora's Box! :-0

 

[Carl G]

Hi Sly Dog
Thank you very much.
I have been trying for over a week to get this crappy thing to work right.
I had to select the masterd format and now all is well. (I hope)
But one more question , Using the masterd format it stages my temp files ok
but it also starts to burn them right away to ,I have to click cansel to
stop the burn process and then I can look at the temp files on the drive.
Is this what you get to,is this the way it is supposed to work?
Thanks

 

[Carl G]

OK GUYS
I got it all figured out. (I think)
Thanks a bunch.