TSGL: cd read/write troubles

Tue Dec 5 21:29:14 EST 2006

CD-writer plus is the software.  WIN98 OS.

good idea to save to C: (or desktop) and then move to M:
-chuck

The Computer Whisperer <justin at whisperer.com.au> wrote: solution: save to a folder on C drive, then add the file to a CD manually.

m8, we need something like the exact name of the program to see if it
supports drag and drop to disk, if it does, i'm pretty sure it still needs
to be saved to a writeable medium first.

Justin

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On 06/12/06, Chuck Neuenschwander  wrote:
>
>
> yes, he's accessing the CD as if it were a hard drive or floppy
> disk      through the "Save", "Save As" options from the "File" menu of
> the      applications (Word, Wordpad and Notepad) .  He sent me a quick note
> before taking off for a
>
week, indicating the software he uses, which came with the computer, is
> something like CD-writer plus
> -chuck
>
> Ron Brunton  wrote: The piece I'm unclear about is
> "he is just using the CDs as a backup media"
> since there must be CD packet writing software involved. As you describe
> it,
> he's accessing the CD as if it were a hard drive or floppy disk through
> the
> "Save", "Save As" options from the "File" menu of the applications (Word,
> Wordpad and Notepad) and possibly through Windows Explorer (drag & drop).
> In
> order to do that, there must be some sort of CD packet writing software in
> place. The software probably came with the computer. Other than Nero and
> Roxio's Easy CD Creator, I think the other common one that gets bundled is
> Sonic. Windows (all version up to and including XP) don't have packet
> writing ability. XP does have a CD-R capability, but it's pretty clunky -
> you write the file to a special place on your hard drive and then tell XP
> to
> burn those files to CD.
>
> I've had a bunch of trouble over the years with CD burning software. I
> switched from Roxio to Nero because I was getting too many coasters with
> buffer overflow errors, even though the Roxio packet writing was very
> smooth
> and did allow CD-R disks to act like CD-RW (it's a multi-session trick
> rather than really turning CD-R disks into CD-RW disks). Lately, I ran
> into
> a problem where the RAID controller appears to conflict with Nero's packet
> writing software, InCD. I'm not using RAID, so I just disabled that
> software
> and things seem to be OK.
>
> All of the above just leads me to the conclusion that while no commercial
> product is perfect, he would be better off purchasing one of the two
> leading
> brands (Nero or Roxio) and obtaining more control over the process.
>
> Does any of this make sense for you?
>
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of Chuck Neuenschwander
> Sent: December 4, 2006 7:21 PM
> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
> Subject: TSGL: cd read/write troubles
>
> he's a (willing to learn and experiment) novice.
> I believe he is just using the CDs as a backup media.
> He has written and retrieved WORD files before but I was
> trying to get him to use WORDPAD/NotePad and he ran
> into this problem.
> -chuck
>
>
> Ron Brunton  wrote: Hi Chuck,
>
> Is the problem new? Has he tried to access the Word2k and other files
> after
> they've been reported "saved"? What's he using for packet writing
> software?
> (InCD is the Nero program that allows direct program access to the CD-RW.
> Easy CD Creator has a different, and non-compatible utility for doing the
> same.) Has this changed? Can he burn a whole CD with whatever CD writing
> software he's using?
>
> Ron
>
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