CD-RW will not relaase aftr Drag-n-Drop

[Kenaso]

Each time I use drag and drop to copy files to a CD-RW disk, I cannot eject the CD. I have to reboot in order for it to release. When I open EasyCd and interrogate the disk I get the messae that the disk is being held by Sonic Solutions after Drag-n-Drop. What have I done wrong?

[ogdens]

Each time I use drag and drop to copy files to a CD-RW disk, I cannot eject the CD. I have to reboot in order for it to release. When I open EasyCd and interrogate the disk I get the messae that the disk is being held by Sonic Solutions after Drag-n-Drop. What have I done wrong?

 

From an earlier post, hope this helps you:

 

You should never shut down the computer with a Direct CD disc in the drive. You have to eject the disc using Direct CD by right clicking on the Direct CD icon in the system tray and select eject. Or, open Direct CD and select eject. You have to eject the disc from Direct CD so that Direct CD can complete the writting process.

[Kenaso]

From an earlier post, hope this helps you:

 

You should never shut down the computer with a Direct CD disc in the drive. You have to eject the disc using Direct CD by right clicking on the Direct CD icon in the system tray and select eject. Or, open Direct CD and select eject. You have to eject the disc from Direct CD so that Direct CD can complete the writting process.

 

My mistake for not mentioning that I have tried all the above including Right mouse click in Windows Explorer and selecting eject. I have also pressed the eject button manually below the drive door. Rebooting is my last resort. What else can I do?

 

Should I reformat this CD-RW and try agian?

[lynn98109]

Not too sure what you are trying to do.

 

Formatted discs have a tendancy to fail for any reason (or none at all), and at best are fussy about what Operating System/Program Version they will allow themselves to be read by.

 

Using CD-RW with formatting will speed the disappearance of the data.

 

If the idea is to have a "great-big floppy-disc", get a Flash drive.

 

Meanwhile, have a look at this (note that it applies to DirectCD, Drag2Disc, Nero's InCD, Sonic's DLA, and other Packet-Writing):

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=12382

 

Lynn

[ogdens]

My mistake for not mentioning that I have tried all the above including Right mouse click in Windows Explorer and selecting eject. I have also pressed the eject button manually below the drive door. Rebooting is my last resort. What else can I do?

 

Should I reformat this CD-RW and try agian?

 

DirectCD is packet writing software and provides the ability to burn and copy files on cd media using drag & drop actions in Windows Explorer similar to working with floppy or hard disc drives. This requires formatting the cd media in DirectCD before you can use it in this way. In order to read one of these cd’’s on a computer which does not have DirectCD installed, you must have a udf reader installed on that computer. The first time you insert a cd made in the fashion described above on a computer which does not have the udf reader installed, it will offer to install the udf reader. There are options to close the DirectCD media so it can be read on any computer (without the udf reader). DirectCD made discs can be very fussy and unreliable. It doesn’’t seem to take much to cause them to become unreadable and require erasing and reformatting. It is especially important to always use keyboard commands to eject a DirectCD disc so the program has a chance to finish any writing processes it has remaining. Always eject a DirectCD disc from your burner before shutting down the computer for the same reason.

 

The DataCD Project process does not use formatted media, and works much like other Easy Cd Creator Project activities. You would design and build a project layout, and then burn that project to a cd. The best approach is to finalize session, don’’t finalize cd, so you can add more files later on, if you choose. Whenever you add a session later, you must remember to import previous session or you will lose the pointers to the files in earlier sessions. A cd made in this fashion is usable on most any computer.

 

Never use DirectCD formatted media for permanent storage of important or critical files because I really don’’t trust it over the long haul. And I never format cd_r media in DirectCD.

 

Use DataCD Project to save important files, programs, etc. If it is to be permanent, use cd_r media and finalize session, don’’t finalize cd so you can import previous session and add more sessions later. If it is to be temporary storage and you want to re-use the media, use the same process, but use cd-rw media, so you can erase it later on and start over.

Using DirectCD formatted media can be a frustrating experience. DirectCD formatted media become unstable, complete with loss of data files also.

[Kenaso]

I will erase the CD-RW CD and recopying the files using EasyCD in lieu of DirectCD Drag-n-Drop. Thank you.

[lynn98109]

If the idea is long-term backup, hope you use CD-R.

 

Or, to put it another way, if you lost all the data, would replacing it cost more than the 15 cents or so a CSD-R costs by the spindle?

 

Lynn

[Kenaso]

This is ever changing development code. I have copies on my hard drive and make a temp backup to CD-RW. Thannks for caring.