Can't write .jpg files to CD?!

This one is driving me bonkers! I select the images I want to write to a CD-R, then from windows exporer I hilight the D drive and hit the drop down "file" and select "write these files to CD" Every time I try to, the message I get is "There is no disc in the drive, please insert a writeable disc into drive D:\" There IS a writeable disc in the drive, so what's the deal?

HELP!

 

"Drag and Drop" recording to a CD-R can be done in Roxio. Otherwise you may need a CD-RW disk.

 

gakere--Have you tried using another CD? Perhaps format before use?

 

I could be wrong but I think you guys are misunderstanding here. I think gakere is trying to use Windows XP's built in burning software. That's what I get out of it from his/her post. The description is how you do it with XP's software. No need to format the cd. This isn't packet writing. You can drag files to the cdrw drive in windows explorer and once you've done that you select "write these files to cd ".

I don't have an answer right now as to why it's not seeing the CD's in the drive. Am I understanding correctly about the software you're trying to use?

 

Zander

Think you're correct, but need a RW for native XP. Roxio will do either. She wants to write to a CD-R.

 

gakere

Please clarify; are you talking about writing (adding) more files to a CD-R that you've already written files to on another occasion? That's what "drag and drop" usually means.

PeteC, I'm not surprised, if I'm wrong. Been there before!

My add emphasis on blank. There's nothing in your reference that says you can drag and drop (writing) over and over until the CD-R is full. You CAN do that with roxio. Think I've tried that in XP only once (hate to make coasters), and thought it wouldn't do that. Do you mean XP WILL do that?

 

You can drag and drop files to your cdrw drive with XP's software (first put a blank cdr or cdrw in the drive). The catch is that it's not the same as something like Roxio's Direct CD or whatever they call it now. The files you drag don't get wrote to the cd imediately. Once you're done dragging files you have to double click on the drive in My Computer or Windows Explorer and a window will open that shows files that you're going to burn. Then, in the left pane of that window you choose write these files to cd. That's about all there is to it.

I haven't used XP's built in support for this much so I don't really no if the disk gets closed or if it just closes the session so you can write more to it later. My guess would be that it closes the disk and that you need to use a blank disk the next time you want to write something to disk.

 

Hi Zander,

That's what I found, the disk is closed; so it seems to be write once, and nothing like how we use a floppy. From the same reference:

That's not true! Not the way we use floppies! Marketing hype!

InCD by Ahead will also allow one to use a CD, but only a CD-RW, like you use a floppy, and there may be others out there, too, so it can be done right, but not sure of situation with patents and copyrights. I was fortunate to get Adaptek software, which is now Roxio, with my first writer years ago, and it used to be quite cost effective when CDs were costly, especially the WRs.

 

Hi All, ............... I must admit that I was reluctant to reply to the discussion by you experts but I have been using the "Copy to Folder" process over and over on the same CD. It is a CD-R (I don't have a CD-RW) Using the WindowsXP SP2. Before posting this I burned a .jpg file to the CD and it now has some 11 folders and 31 files. I don't close the CD.

The process is discussed in the Windows Help and Support Center under "Copy files and folders to a CD." Hope this answers gakere's problem.

 

derfsch

Wow! and thanks. No such thing as an expert.
How about some more details, such as:
do you remove the disk between writings? put in another CD to read and then re-insert the one to write more?
how do you know when it's full?
Did your writer come with any other software?
why are gakere and I unable to do that?
anything else you feel we should know.

 

I guess I should have done a bit more experimenting here before I made my first post in this thread. I read derfsch's post and decided to try something. Last night before I posted in this thread I made a cd using XP's built in burning software (just experimenting). I copied about 500 MB's worth of files to it. Tonight, I took the same cd and tried copying about 30 MB's more to it. It worked just fine. All files that I wrote to it last night and tonight are accessable on it. Guess XP doesn't close the disc after writing to it. It must only close the session. I have no idea though how you'd close the disc if you wanted to. Maybe you can't. I really have no idea. Perhaps derfsch knows the answer. Guess I'll wait and see.

In the mean time, anybody have any idea what gakere's problem might be? We shouldn't forget about that.

gakere
Have you ever had success burning a cd using this burner and XP's built in software?

 

Zander

"You and I both! ", says I with red face. Guess when I tried it when XP first came out and it didn't work like what I was used to, jumped to conclusions, especially since it didn't write to the CD, just to someplace on the HD using the tricky smoke and mirrors thing to make it look like writing to a floppy.

It still looks like a marketing idea; don't think programmers would think of that. And if it can write additional data, why not do it at once rather than wait for a bunch of data? Why say you have to start with a blank disk if you can take out the disk and continue to write to it later, when it's obviously not blank? Still looks misleading.

To really test it, think one should use an XP computer that hasn't had any 3rd party burning software installed. Really interested now; should have an opportunity to do that soon.

 

I think there was a patch or update released which enabled this. Himat cd support or something like that comes to mind. I think SP2 included it by default.

I still prefer using Nero.

 

Pete, PeteC,

Doesn't seem to apply to the current problem/discussion, does it?

 

Hi All, .............. I haven't been able to duplicate gakere's problem, maybe it would help to have him/her go through the steps that produces the problem. My comment about closing the CD was brought up in your previous replies and probably due to the previous use of a third party program to write to a CD. I don't see any way of closing the CD in WindowsXP.

Note to gakere: If your SendTo folder is set up with a shortcut to the CD drive, you can right click the file to high-light it and use SendTo to get the copy to the CD drive. On the CD drive screen you should see the file with the message: "Files Ready to Be Written to the CD." High-light it (them) and click File on the tool bar. In the drop-down menu click on: "Write these files to the CD." You will notice that I have emboldened the phrase high-light, if you don't high-light the files at the significant points, the process will not work.

Zander and sparrow ............ Apparently you have convinced yourselves that WindowsXP can copy and write to the CD drive. A further note to sparrow: When you install the CD in its drive and right-click Properties you can read off the available space, but I'm sure you knew that. If gakere has followed the info in these posts and still cannot record to a CD, then the problem probably is that the CD drive is not being recognized.

 

PeteC--Re HighMAT. Now I am confused. According to the www.highmat.com website only certain versions of DVD/CD readers and writers are able to use the system. My writer is made by TEAC, a company not on the list. My reader is made by JLMS (or JVC) which is on the list.

 

derfsch

Thanks again for the additional information. Hope you get over any shyness about your qualifications mentioned in your first post in this thread; you've done better than me!

Originally thought that if XP wasn't able to write to the CD-R there must be something on it, written in a previous session, as if drag and drop was being attempted, and didn't realize that would make no difference. Have the impression that more folks than myself think/thought that XP can't handle dragNdrop. Glad you, PeteC and Zander have corrected my impression. MS does say, however, that XP doesn't do packet writing, which is often equated with dragNdrop.

This page from microsoft probably has the answer to gakere's question if it hasn't turned up yet in this thread.