CD-rom and CD-rw

I have a Windows XP computer with a CD-rom drive and a CD-RW drive. Is there any way that I can install the data from a store-bought CD-rom with pre-existing data onto my CD-RW disk? In other words can I keep my store-bought CD-rom in the CD-rom drive and the CD-RW disk in the CD-RW drive and transfer the data from my store-bought disk into my CD-RW disk? Thank you very much.

 

In a word Yes.

How you do it depends on the program you use to burn cd's

What program are you using?

 

To KevinSaul: Thank you for your response. I am a beginner at computers. I don't know what you mean by "program ". But on my spec. sheet describing the contents of my computer it states "NEC 24/10/32 IDE CDRW DRIVE ". I hope this answer is helpful. Thank you.

 

Hello abx,
What KevinSaul meant was the program you use to write to a cd like: Easy CD Creator or Sony CD extreem. The different programs allow different options. Did you get any software with your CD/RW? If you did then that software is what you would use to write to a cd unless it just contained drivers. There are some free programs you can download, check out: www.vcdhelp.com for lots of examples and free downloads.


There may be an ICON on your desk top that says CD something or something CD. If nothing is recognizable then click on start-programs and look through your list of programs to see if something relates to a CD program.

Post back with what you find.

Good luck

 

If I read the situation correctly, you have some data on Disk A. You also have some data on Disk B. You want to merge the two.

If it were me, I'd just use Windows Explorer and copy the data you want on a merged disk to a folder. Then I'd burn a new folder. That is, create a Disk C that now contains the merge data.

 

cdr-w

RayH your point is followed easily by us in the know but this person is a bigginer We gotta find out if abx has burning software installed & what "flavor ".

abx

You must format a cd-r/w disk before you can copy over to it. This is done with "Software "! A utility within the software package that does this is called Packet burning. One brand is with Nero's INCD. This is installed after the NERO BURNING ROM program is installed. Another is part of ROXIO's ezcd. When you format a cd-r/w disk the proccess takes 30-45 min & takes 55 or so megabyts of space FROM the disk, therefore you may not have enough room left to copy a FULL cd to a formated cd-r/w.

So follow RayH solution

 

I'm not positive because I don't have an XP machine, but I believe XP comes with CD burning software built in to the OS. So if someone with experience with WIN XP can jump in here it would probably help.

 

I am running winxp Kevin & the burning software built in ***** as anyone can tell you. Very hard to get a re-wright disk figgered out as abx is discovering, therefore...................