Format A Cd/cd-rw

[Barblee99]

Someone, if you could please help me before I tear my hair out...all I want to do is format a CD so I can copy audio files. Is that too much to ask? I'm so frustrated I could scream right now.

 

I had Easy CD Creator on my old computer years ago, but apparently that version won't work on XP, so I bought the new EMC Media Creator today, thinking I'd be able to perform a simple thing like formatting a CD, right? WRONG!

 

Someone, please point me in the right direction, spelling it out so any idiot can do it. I'm not technically challenged, but this software makes me feel like I am. Jeez, why does something so simple have to be so complicated? Thank God I don't use CDs anymore, this is a major PITA.

[grandpabruce]

Someone, if you could please help me before I tear my hair out...all I want to do is format a CD so I can copy audio files. Is that too much to ask? I'm so frustrated I could scream right now.

 

I had Easy CD Creator on my old computer years ago, but apparently that version won't work on XP, so I bought the new EMC Media Creator today, thinking I'd be able to perform a simple thing like formatting a CD, right? WRONG!

 

Someone, please point me in the right direction, spelling it out so any idiot can do it. I'm not technically challenged, but this software makes me feel like I am. Jeez, why does something so simple have to be so complicated? Thank God I don't use CDs anymore, this is a major PITA.

 

You don't need to format any disc to burn audio files. If you just want to save them as data, use Creator Classic. No need to format a disc.

 

If you actually want to make a music CD, that will work in your CD player, use Music Disc Creator. No formatting of the disc is needed.

 

If you are formatting a disc, you are using packet writing software. If you are archiving those files, and they are important to you, then using any packet writing software, is the wrong program, and you could lose that important data.

 

[Barblee99]

You don't need to format any disc to burn audio files. If you just want to save them as data, use Creator Classic. No need to format a disc.

 

If you actually want to make a music CD, that will work in your CD player, use Music Disc Creator. No formatting of the disc is needed.

 

If you are formatting a disc, you are using packet writing software. If you are archiving those files, and they are important to you, then using any packet writing software, is the wrong program, and you could lose that important data.

 

Thanks for your quick reply, but none of these options work for me. It says that there's no disc in the drive. I've put multiple CD/CD-RW disks in my RW drive but it doesn't recognize them as such. And I've had no other problems burning DVDs, ever. Only the CDs. I'm very confused.

 

Btw, Navy vet, 1980-1986, my husband is a Navy Viet Nam vet 1965-1985. Go Navy!

 

[Syrallas]

Thanks for your quick reply, but none of these options work for me. It says that there's no disc in the drive. I've put multiple CD/CD-RW disks in my RW drive but it doesn't recognize them as such. And I've had no other problems burning DVDs, ever. Only the CDs. I'm very confused.

 

Btw, Navy vet, 1980-1986, my husband is a Navy Viet Nam vet 1965-1985. Go Navy!

Have you put a cd that you know has music content on it in your drive? Does your drive recognize it?

[Barblee99]

Have you put a cd that you know has music content on it in your drive? Does your drive recognize it?

 

Yes, I put the audio CD that I want to copy and it plays just fine.

[Syrallas]

Yes, I put the audio CD that I want to copy and it plays just fine.

Why don't you then put your "good" music cd in your drive, open "Audio CD" from EMC 10 suite, when the Easy Audio program opens, drag / choose the tracks you want from your cd, click burn/continue button on lower right, & when it kicks out your music cd and prompts you for a blank cd, put one in and burn a new cd w/ the songs you chose?

[Barblee99]

Why don't you then put your "good" music cd in your drive, open "Audio CD" from EMC 10 suite, when the Easy Audio program opens, drag / choose the tracks you want from your cd, click burn/continue button on lower right, & when it kicks out your music cd and prompts you for a blank cd, put one in and burn a new cd w/ the songs you chose?

 

I wish it were that easy. LOL I actually have a ROM drive and a RW drive. So I put the original in the ROM drive and the blank CD in the RW drive, and it keeps promting me for a CD. No matter what I put in, if it's a CD, it won't work. See why I'm frustrated?

[Syrallas]

I wish it were that easy. LOL I actually have a ROM drive and a RW drive. So I put the original in the ROM drive and the blank CD in the RW drive, and it keeps promting me for a CD. No matter what I put in, if it's a CD, it won't work. See why I'm frustrated?

Are you windows XP?

[Barblee99]

Are you windows XP?

 

Yes.

 

Are you windows XP?

 

And I've already tried the Sonic software I had that came with my Dell. And that's what prompted me to buy the EMC. Ha ha.

[Syrallas]

 

 

Have you read this article?

[Barblee99]

Have you read this article?

 

No, I haven't, but I will. Thank you for the link.

 

 

Have you read this article?

 

I'll try the registry fix and see if that works. Thanks.

[Syrallas]

No, I haven't, but I will. Thank you for the link.

 

 

 

 

I'll try the registry fix and see if that works. Thanks.

I hope it helps, please report back....