Reading disk correctly

[Robin Graham]

Often, when I burn a file to a CD to transfer it to another computer, and
then later burn another file and try to transfer that as well, Windows
Explorer only seems to be able to read the original file, not the new one.
It's as thought the original 'reading' has been etched into the system and
it can't adapt to the change.

Can anyone tell me why this is and what to do about it?

Rob Graham

 

[Guest]

When you use XPs built-in cd-writer application, it creates what's known as a
'multi-session' CD which allows you to add files to it in another recording
'session'. problem is, some older cd-readers can't read 'mutisession' discs
so they only see the first session. You can either buy a new cd drive to
replace the one that can't read multisession (any new drive will be okay), or
save files you want to transfer until you have a lot of them to write to the
CD in one go as a single session.
It may pay you to buy some cd-rw discs just for transferring files, so you
can erase and re-use them as new, since you can't erase cd-r media you would
be saving money in the long term.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Often, when I burn a file to a CD to transfer it to another computer, and
then later burn another file and try to transfer that as well, Windows
Explorer only seems to be able to read the original file, not the new one.
It's as thought the original 'reading' has been etched into the system and
it can't adapt to the change.

What software are you using to do the burning?

 

[Robin Graham]

It may pay you to buy some cd-rw discs just for transferring files, so you

can erase and re-use them as new, since you can't erase cd-r media you would
be saving money in the long term.

This was a CD-RW. And the software is EasyCD. It seems to work OK when I put
the disk back in the machine on which it was made but not always when I put
it into my other machine.

Rob

 

[Alex Nichol]

This was a CD-RW. And the software is EasyCD. It seems to work OK when I put
the disk back in the machine on which it was made but not always when I put
it into my other machine.

If you mean Easy CD Creator itself and *not* its Direct CD then the
most likely explanation is hardware incompatibility, especially if you
are trying to read in a CD-Rom drive rather than a burner. If you *are*
using DirectCD (now Drag to disk) you will need it on both; or at least
have the UDF Volume reader you can find by going to
http://www.roxio.com/en/support/
clicking on Software Updates in the left column, and finding its link at
bottom of the next page