How to burn a CD-RW

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I loaded a NEW CD-RW disk into my drive, selected a file,
right-click on Copy to CD or device, and nothing
happened. Windows Media player opened and it appears to
not recognize my cd burner. The drive works fine (reads,
plays files, burns CD-R with other software) but not will
not burn with Media Player.
 
Jason said:
I loaded a NEW CD-RW disk into my drive, selected a file,
right-click on Copy to CD or device, and nothing
happened. Windows Media player opened and it appears to
not recognize my cd burner. The drive works fine (reads,
plays files, burns CD-R with other software) but not will
not burn with Media Player.
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Do you have Windows burning capability turned on? If you loaded third-party
burning software, it might have turned off Windows own burning capability.
You should use one or the other and not have Windows capability turned on if
you're using third-party software. To turn it on or off, go to My Computer,
right-click the CD R drive and click Properties. Now click the Recording
tab and check or uncheck the box marked: Enable CD Recording on this drive.

Tom Lake
 
Jason said:
I loaded a NEW CD-RW disk into my drive, selected a file,
right-click on Copy to CD or device, and nothing
happened. Windows Media player opened and it appears to
not recognize my cd burner.
Click to expand...

Read up at http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

If you are wanting to make a data CD the send to device should stash up
files in a folder. This will then open if you double click the drive in
My Computer, (and you can also drag more files to that); then click
Write files To CD on the left of that display.

In Windows Media Player, to make an audio CD, you assemble a playlist
whose duration will fit on a CD (and you can't later add to it) and use
its Write to CD. That will convert things like mp3 to audio tracks and
burn an audio CD
 
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