INCONSISTENT MESSAGES ABOUT CD SPACE

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I'm using the CD burner in WinXP. I have a CD-R 700Mb disk which has some photo files on it, and WinXP Explorer said the photos used 100Mb space, and there was still 600Mb (or thereabouts) free. I then added 5Mb of files (not photos) to the CD, and Explorer now says that Used space is 5Mb and Free space is 0.

How come? Is there something I'm missing?
 
Lindsay said:
I'm using the CD burner in WinXP. I have a CD-R 700Mb disk which has
some photo files on it, and WinXP Explorer said the photos used 100Mb
space, and there was still 600Mb (or thereabouts) free. I then added
5Mb of files (not photos) to the CD, and Explorer now says that Used
space is 5Mb and Free space is 0.

How come? Is there something I'm missing?
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CD-R or CD-RW?
If CD-R, did you close the CD from further writing?

Just because a CD-R can hold 700MB doesn't mean it has to. If you "close
it", it is done.
 
Thanks for the oh-so-quick reply, Shenan.

CD-R, as I said in the original post.

What do you mean 'close the CD from further writing'? As I said earlier, I'm using WinXP (Home) to burn CDs, and I've never seen any reference to this. Can someone please explain?
 
Lindsay said:
I'm using the CD burner in WinXP. I have a CD-R 700Mb disk which
has some photo files on it, and WinXP Explorer said the photos used
100Mb space, and there was still 600Mb (or thereabouts) free. I
then added 5Mb of files (not photos) to the CD, and Explorer now
says that Used space is 5Mb and Free space is 0.

How come? Is there something I'm missing?
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
CD-R or CD-RW?
If CD-R, did you close the CD from further writing?

Just because a CD-R can hold 700MB doesn't mean it has to. If you
"close it", it is done.
Click to expand...


Lindsay said:
Thanks for the oh-so-quick reply, Shenan.

CD-R, as I said in the original post.

What do you mean 'close the CD from further writing'? As I said
earlier, I'm using WinXP (Home) to burn CDs, and I've never seen any
reference to this. Can someone please explain?
Click to expand...

It must be late - I missed that you were using XP to burn.. First sentence
too. Nice. heh

Anyway - you may want to read up here (as well as following the links) - it
is one of the better explanations of Windows XP CD burning out there:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm
 
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