Win XP and CD Burning - wierd behaviour ...help please

[adm]

All,

My system has two hard drives. C is a 40G that I use for the Win XP OS, plus
all my programme files. F is a 120G thatI use for all my data - including
the "my documents" folder.

For some reason, as soon as any files are put onto the F drive, Win XP
behaves as if it has been told to copy them to the CD-RW drive - it looks as
if the CD burning engine in XP thinks that F is the cache space for CD
burning. However, in the "CD Recording" tab of the properties for that
drive, it clearly states that C is the drive for storing files to be burned
to CD....


Any ideas ?

 

[Alex Nichol]

For some reason, as soon as any files are put onto the F drive, Win XP
behaves as if it has been told to copy them to the CD-RW drive - it looks as
if the CD burning engine in XP thinks that F is the cache space for CD
burning. However, in the "CD Recording" tab of the properties for that
drive, it clearly states that C is the drive for storing files to be burned
to CD....

There are two caches involved. One is used for storing up files
awaiting burning (And is normally in your profile space in Docs and
Settings); the other - the one the drive properties refers to - is used
to assemble an image of the disk, just before the actual burn starts.
Use TweakUI - one of the XP Powertoys from (if you have installed XP
SP1)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

If you have not installed SP!, the earlier version can be found at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

Once installed you will find it in Start - All Programs - Powertoys for
Windows XP

You will find in its My Computer - Special folders that the first is CD
Burning - that is where the files are stashed up individually, and it
sounds as if it has been moved to F:. You can move it to any existing
folder you like - with two Physical drives it is probably best to have
this on the one not likely to contain files you want to burn, with the
other, image, folder on the other drive

 

[adm]

There are two caches involved. One is used for storing up files
awaiting burning (And is normally in your profile space in Docs and
Settings); the other - the one the drive properties refers to - is used
to assemble an image of the disk, just before the actual burn starts.
Use TweakUI - one of the XP Powertoys from (if you have installed XP
SP1)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Yup - already installed.

If you have not installed SP!, the earlier version can be found at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUi PowertoySetup.exe

Once installed you will find it in Start - All Programs - Powertoys for
Windows XP

You will find in its My Computer - Special folders that the first is CD
Burning - that is where the files are stashed up individually, and it
sounds as if it has been moved to F:. You can move it to any existing
folder you like - with two Physical drives it is probably best to have
this on the one not likely to contain files you want to burn, with the
other, image, folder on the other drive

Thanks - have just done that now, it was indeed set to F:/, but is now
fixed. I'll just reboot and see if it works.....