Creating Cd-rw

[yooper46]

My sister (in NH) purchased this program as a salesman told her it would allow her to make CD-RW discs. I have been trying to help her over the phone (from Michigan), but I have reached the conclusion that I do not think the salesman was correct. Does this program allow formating to make a CD-RW disc? Thanks.

[lynn98109]

There is some basic lack of information here. You don't "make" a RW disc - that is done at the factory.

 

There is a a description of the different kinds of discs, and what Packaet-Writing is, here -

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

 

If your sister has WinXP, she already has the ability to write data discs, and doesn't need anythign more.

 

If she wants a "great-big floppy disc", a Flash drive (aka Pen / Keychain / Thumb / Jump drive) would be much better for the job.

 

As to whether Drag2Disc is in this cut-down Version of EMC 9, I am not sure. However, Drag2Disc, like Nero's InCD, Sonic's DLA, and all other Packet-Writing programs, is proprietary (can't be read by another company's program, and may not be readable by different Versions of the same program), has a tendancy to become unreadable (that is, to lose the data), and if used with RW instead of R it will tend to become unreadable sooner.

 

Nobody could convince me, and I managed to learn the hard way.

 

Lynn

[ogdens]

My sister (in NH) purchased this program as a salesman told her it would allow her to make CD-RW discs. I have been trying to help her over the phone (from Michigan), but I have reached the conclusion that I do not think the salesman was correct. Does this program allow formating to make a CD-RW disc? Thanks.

 

 

Please clarify what YOU mean by "make CD-RW discs" and "formating to make a CD-RW disc".

 

I get the impression you think it means it will convert a CD-R to a CD-RW. Give us some details and we will go from there.

 

 

[yooper46]

She has Windows XP. She purchased a pack of CD-RW and has a CD that has read-write capability. I must have a misunderstanding of this media. I thought it had to be formatted the first time before it became a disc (like a great-big floppy) I would have suggested to her to get a flash drive, but was trying to make it easier for her to do backups on her Quicken 2009 which unfortunately will not back up automatically to either a DVD-RW or Flash Drive. I will investigate XP further. It has been a couple years since I have used as I have Vista now. Thanks for your input.

[lynn98109]

WinXP does not have the ability to write to DVDs. For that you do need an outside program, such as the "RedBox" Version. I think it should have Classic Creator included, which would have the ability to write to CDs and DVDs assuming you have an appropriate burner.

 

(Being able to burn a CD or DVD is something mechanical, and buying a burning software program won't add the ability to a drive that is ROM [Read Only Memory].)

 

I'd suggest she get some CD-Rs. (I'm assuming you followed the link for the explanation of the difference between commercially pressed, RW, and R media.)

 

However, I think the basic question is how to save the data - there should be some kind of mechanisim that lets you choose where to keep it, and to use 'save as' so you can change the name and keep the old Version and the new Version. I have my list of CDs as Music List, but about once a month I do a save-as and add a number Jan - Sept, and then O, N, D for the last 3 months - it's not quite in order, but I'd only be referring to them in an emergency.

 

An emergency on a spread sheet can be defined as realizing you somehow screwed up. You can recover only as far back as your last save-as; everything else is gone. Been there, done that, and spent a few hours recovering (re-entering all the data).

 

Lynn

[cdanteek]

She has Windows XP. She purchased a pack of CD-RW and has a CD that has read-write capability. I must have a misunderstanding of this media. I thought it had to be formatted the first time before it became a disc (like a great-big floppy) I would have suggested to her to get a flash drive, but was trying to make it easier for her to do backups on her Quicken 2009 which unfortunately will not back up automatically to either a DVD-RW or Flash Drive. I will investigate XP further. It has been a couple years since I have used as I have Vista now. Thanks for your input.

 

 

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