[GLLUG] CD-R Problems

[Michael T.Watters II]

It's most likely caused by the session not being closed.  There should be an option in XP to make the cd readable by other computers.  I'm not sure exactly where it is since I haven't used XP in forever.

You could always install Nero and use that.

On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:21:53 +0000
"Ex Fed" <exfed@hotmail.com> wrote:

> A group of my users has one machine with XP on it which can add to a CD-R 
> disk over and over again.  It has no extra software or drivers loaded on it, 
> other than those that came off of the Windows XP CD.
> 
> They have another machine with windows 2000 which has Direct CD 5 on it.  
> With this machine you can not add to the previously written CD-R mentioned 
> above.  It indicates that the media can not be written to.  It can create 
> CDs from files or copy CDs provided it is a blank CD-R
> 
> Why does the one machine allow us to write to the CD-R over and over again 
> and the CD remains locked to the machine?
> 
> 
> Could it be a difference in the CD writer hardware specifications?
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
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