Writing to a CDRW in Windows XP

[Guest]

I'm having trouble backing up my data to a CDRW in Windows XP Professional. I was told that Windows XP has support for CDRW drives integrated into the OS. I cannot figure out how to properly use the drive in Windows XP. The "Help and Support" feature is no help

I'm currently receiving the following error when trying to copy a file to a newly formatting CDRW in Windows XP
"Cannot copy <filename>. Files on this CD are read-only". What am I doing wrong

If anybody can E-mail me the proper steps for using a CDRW in Windows XP or point me to the proper source for instructions, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks...

 

[Chris Lanier [MVP]]

Hi,

Please see the following sites.

Burning CDs in Windows XP (By Alex Nichol, MS-MVP)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

Focus On: CD Burning and Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/focuson/cdburning.asp

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I'm having trouble backing up my data to a CDRW in Windows XP

Professional. I was told that Windows XP has support for CDRW drives
integrated into the OS. I cannot figure out how to properly use the drive
in Windows XP. The "Help and Support" feature is no help.

I'm currently receiving the following error when trying to copy a file to

a newly formatting CDRW in Windows XP:

"Cannot copy <filename>. Files on this CD are read-only". What am I doing wrong?

If anybody can E-mail me the proper steps for using a CDRW in Windows XP

or point me to the proper source for instructions, I would greatly
appreciate it! Thanks...

 

[Dave Douglas]

There is no native CD-RW writing function in XP. You need a packet
writing program such as InCD that comes with Nero, or DirectCD that
comes with Roxio's Easy CD.

I'm having trouble backing up my data to a CDRW in Windows XP

Professional. I was told that Windows XP has support for CDRW drives
integrated into the OS. I cannot figure out how to properly use the
drive in Windows XP. The "Help and Support" feature is no help.

I'm currently receiving the following error when trying to copy a file

to a newly formatting CDRW in Windows XP:

"Cannot copy <filename>. Files on this CD are read-only". What am I doing wrong?

If anybody can E-mail me the proper steps for using a CDRW in Windows

XP or point me to the proper source for instructions, I would greatly
appreciate it! Thanks...

 

[dev]

Professional. I was told that Windows XP has support for CDRW drives
integrated into the OS. I cannot figure out how to properly use the
drive in Windows XP. The "Help and Support" feature is no help.


There is no native CD-RW writing function in XP. You need a packet
writing program such as InCD that comes with Nero, or DirectCD that
comes with Roxio's Easy CD.

Sorry, but that is incorrect. I write to CD-RW regularly, using XP's
built-in burner. It does not support packet writing, however.

Be sure that the record function is turned on...
Right-click the CD drive, click PROPERTIES, then the RECORD tab.

 

[kurttrail]

There is no native CD-RW writing function in XP. You need a packet
writing program such as InCD that comes with Nero, or DirectCD that
comes with Roxio's Easy CD.

As much as I can't stand XP's inbred CD burning, it does support CDRW
writing. It does not support packet writing, but it will burn to a blank
CDRW.

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[Jack]

forget that XP stuff...get a decent writing software package
....ie..like...Nero...

 

[Alex Nichol]

'm having trouble backing up my data to a CDRW in Windows XP Professional. I was told that Windows XP has support for CDRW drives integrated into the OS. I cannot figure out how to properly use the drive in Windows XP. The "Help and Support" feature is no help.

The inbuilt burning is not a CD-RW method and does not support using a
CD as output medium from any program. Read up at
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

You will need one of the UDF packet writing packages mentioned there.
Also the inbuilt NTBackup does not regard the result as a removable
device, but as a hard disk, and will not 'span' to a second disk if it
fills up. I have successfully used DLA with it (although the DLA readme
says not), by making a tiny backup to a file on Hard disk, and copying
that to a DVD-R disk as a 'seed' for NTBackup to work with

 

[Alex Nichol]

As much as I can't stand XP's inbred CD burning, it does support CDRW
writing. It does not support packet writing, but it will burn to a blank
CDRW.

But *not* as output from a program, which is what the OP seems to want
It effectively treats the CD-RW as a CD-R, writing in sessions. You
cannot update individual files, and can only erase the disk as a whole

 

[kurttrail]

But *not* as output from a program, which is what the OP seems to want
It effectively treats the CD-RW as a CD-R, writing in sessions. You
cannot update individual files, and can only erase the disk as a whole

It is correct that it won't burn as "as output from a program," but I
find the OP was unclear about how they were going about backing up their
files to CD. Personally after MS dropped the 9x backup file format for
2k & XP, I won't use any MS program to back up, since who knows how long
the present file format will be supported by future MS OS's.

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