What Mode does XP use when burning a data CD?

[Tony]

Before I had XP, I would use 3rd party software to burn
data CD's. I always had options on how I burned my CD
that I can't seem to find in the XP tool.

The data CD's I burn go to a CD duplication house and
they have specific requirements on what these settings
need to be. Specifically:

File system ISO 9660 or ISO 9660 w/Joliet Extensions
Mode 1
Recorded as "disc at once"
Final session is closed

Does anyone know what the defaults are or if I can set
these options? Getting this wrong could result in burning
hundreds of useless CD's and costing me quite a bit of
money.

Thanks,
Tony

 

[purplehaz]

Go back to using your third party software. The xp cd burning program is
limited at best and does not do anything but music cds well. If this is
important and your sending these cd out to customers use a real cd burning
program like roxio or nero.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Go back to using your third party software. The xp cd burning program is
limited at best and does not do anything but music cds well.

Huh?? I've never burned a music CD on XP (or on anything else, for
that matter), but I've burned plenty of data CDs on XP. Never had a
problem with any of them.

 

[purplehaz]

Huh?? I've never burned a music CD on XP (or on anything else, for
that matter), but I've burned plenty of data CDs on XP. Never had a
problem with any of them.

Sure it will do data cds just fine, but does it work with them or do the
creation process better than roxio or nero. NO WAY. Especially if your
talking about cdrw data cds and multi-session data cds. And if these cds are
going to customers I would not chance mass burning them with such a limited
and inferior burning program. Just my opinion though..... you could do the
data cds with xp burner if you want, but I wouldn't. If it's just for
burning some personal data like pics, docs, mp3s, etc.... then the xp one
would be fine. For mass burning to customers, use a full featured burning
app.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Before I had XP, I would use 3rd party software to burn
data CD's. I always had options on how I burned my CD
that I can't seem to find in the XP tool.

The data CD's I burn go to a CD duplication house and
they have specific requirements on what these settings
need to be. Specifically:

File system ISO 9660 or ISO 9660 w/Joliet Extensions
Mode 1
Recorded as "disc at once"
Final session is closed

The burning is ISO9660 Mode 1 Level 2 with Joliet extensions, but to get
the disk as a whole closed you would have to use third party software.
That closure ought not to be necessary to allow the disk to be read in
the ordinary way, but may be they need it for duplication.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Huh?? I've never burned a music CD on XP (or on anything else, for
that matter), but I've burned plenty of data CDs on XP. Never had a
problem with any of them.

It does it, but is inflexible - in this case there is no way to get it
to close the disk. And it is temperamental - it sometimes fails during
the closure of a session, and sometimes causes people trouble in trying
to add a session to an existing disk.

Music CDs are done from Windows Media player, by setting up a 'playlist'
for the exact contents of the disk to be made, and taking Burn to CD,
when things like MP3 will be expanded to audio tracks in the process