CD Full......................................

[R&J]

Each time I try to copy a file to CD it tels me the disc is full.
they are all new discs, if however I use I-tunes I can burn a music cd.

all help greatly recieved

[ThePassenger]

What are you using to burn the CD?

[Jinx]

Let me guess - XP home edition? XP home didn't come with native cd writing capabilities - you'll need something like nero etc.

[Scraggles]

Nero is pretty good, google for it as forget the url for the site, raxxio is another.

bought nero once, the site claimed it would burn dvd's and found it did not, version 6 works fine and can copy mp3's onto a CD that works in the car, or back up existing music cd's

[jamieboy]

Jinx said:

Let me guess - XP home edition? XP home didn't come with native cd writing capabilities - you'll need something like nero etc.

Are you absolutely certain? I've never heard that before, and this MS KB article makes no distinction between the two.

[SneakyNeil]

Exqueese me for asking the obvious but how big is the file?

[R&J]

Guys
Im using the inbuilt drive to burn the discs
I've used it for the last 3years without a problem
the file was 11Mb,
yes I am using XP Home

[SneakyNeil]

When does it say disk full - as soon as you drag & drop the file, or after you click on 'write to CD'?

[TheGroover]

jamieboy said:

Jinx said:

Let me guess - XP home edition? XP home didn't come with native cd writing capabilities - you'll need something like nero etc.

Are you absolutely certain? I've never heard that before, and this MS KB article makes no distinction between the two.

I had the same issue with XP. It would read blank CD's as non writable until I got Nero, after which all was well.

[jamieboy]

TheGroover said:

jamieboy said:

Jinx said:

Let me guess - XP home edition? XP home didn't come with native cd writing capabilities - you'll need something like nero etc.

Are you absolutely certain? I've never heard that before, and this MS KB article makes no distinction between the two.

I had the same issue with XP. It would read blank CD's as non writable until I got Nero, after which all was well.

Sure, and I've had a similar problem myself after a rebuild which in my case was fixed by going into the CD drive properties and putting a tick in the 'enable CD recording' checkbox.

But having a problem writing CDs is different to the OS being incapable of writing CDs, and that's what I think Jinx was saying. I've never used Home much, but I've never heard that before, and the KB article seems to contradict it, which is why I asked.

[Jinx]

jamieboy said:

Sure, and I've had a similar problem myself after a rebuild which in my case was fixed by going into the CD drive properties and putting a tick in the 'enable CD recording' checkbox.

But having a problem writing CDs is different to the OS being incapable of writing CDs, and that's what I think Jinx was saying. I've never used Home much, but I've never heard that before, and the KB article seems to contradict it, which is why I asked.

I haven't got any articles to link to, I'm only going by my experience with about half a dozen installations of XP Home (all over 3 years old - so might have changed with later releases). Unlike XP pro (which if you dump a blank CD into a RW drive will give you the option of opening a folder to write to) XP home never lets you copy files across to a blank CD (Disk write protected or disk full error). Nero, Pinnacle, Itunes installed on the systems will be able to write at will - as does XP Pro.

[R&J]

SneakyNeil said:

When does it say disk full - as soon as you drag & drop the file, or after you click on 'write to CD'?

I copy the files
I then click to write the files to CD
the CD writing wizard opens
the wizard then asks to insert a writable disc as "there is no disc in the drive"

[pdV6]

[quote=R&J]

SneakyNeil said:

When does it say disk full - as soon as you drag & drop the file, or after you click on 'write to CD'?

I copy the files
I then click to write the files to CD
the CD writing wizard opens
the wizard then asks to insert a writable disc as "there is no disc in the drive"

[/quote]
Have you changed brands of CDR recently? Some drives can be a bit picky about the media.
Could also be a sign of the drive going duff (they do, you know - they're produced for pennies) might be time for a new one.

[sneakyneil]

pdV6 said:

[quote=R&J]

SneakyNeil said:

When does it say disk full - as soon as you drag & drop the file, or after you click on 'write to CD'?

I copy the files
I then click to write the files to CD
the CD writing wizard opens
the wizard then asks to insert a writable disc as "there is no disc in the drive"

Have you changed brands of CDR recently? Some drives can be a bit picky about the media.
Could also be a sign of the drive going duff (they do, you know - they're produced for pennies) might be time for a new one.[/quote]

[R&J]

I'm still using the same pack of CDR

it seems strange that when trying to copy a 10 or 11 mb file using the wizard it doesn't recognise that an empty disc is in the drive; yet I can create a music CD using itunes without replacing the disc.

It will also burn a DVD

I think I'll give nero a try

[ThePassenger]

RJ said:

I think I'll give nero a try

If you don't already have Nero and want something free try InfraRecoder.
Although anything is better than XP's inbuilt burning engine; it gets it's knickers in a knot more often than not...

[SneakyNeil]

You can download a trial version of nero here to see if it gets around your problem:

www.nero.com/nero7/eng/nero7-demo.php