CD Burning - XP Pro - Staging Area Definition

[Paul]

I recently read an article about CD Burning and have a
question with regards to defining the staging drive under
the properties tab on the selected burner. I have
identified an external 80 gig HDD as my staging drive
rather than my internal 6 gig HDD but Win XP continues to
store the image on the C: drive rather than the G: drive,
leaving very little to no room for the image to be
actually written to the burner. Why does the image file
continually go to the local C: drive rather than the
drive identified as such? Thanks so much for your time
and help on this issue.

 

[Alexander Moritz]

you only define the staging area, which means where the image gets created
shortly before burning. but windows does still store the files you wish to
burn first in the CD-burning temp folder (which is located under
C:\Documents and Setting\[user name]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\CD-Burning)

best idea is to use TweakUI and manually reset the temp folder (cd-burning
temp folder under "My Computer->Special Folders" in the TweakUI interface)
to another place, you can find TweakUI here:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe
(you could do it without TweakUI but would need to manually edit the
registry, and you should better don't do this unless you EXACTLY know what
you are doing there)

Hope this helps