re: Question about 'How do I use the built-in CD burning in Windows XP?'
Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 6:03 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Matterhorn69
(1 messages posted)
Ok, follow-up question on this post:
I used the CD-burning utility in XP last night to burn 3 cdr's. My intention was
to move 1.95 GB (650 mb x 3) of files from my hard drive. When the utility finished
writing the data to the cdr I chose to delete the temp files, then closed the utility.
I then went into explorer and deleted the files from the original folder location,
then cleared out the recycle bin.
Here is the problem and the question: The first 2 burns and deletes resulted in
almost no gained space - maybe 100 mb. The 3rd burn and delete resulted in eating
up 500-600 mb of space on my primary drive - even though I burned and deleted from
my D or secondary drive. I have searched for .tmp files, I searched both drives
for any files created yesterday to see if I could find the original file names or
some big .dmp or .tmp or some other kind of big files that might be stored somewhere
hidden. What do I do? I have run Norton utilities, disk defrag, and even clicked
on just about every folder on both drives looking for something.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!
Matt
On Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 9:38 pm, Michael Champlin wrote:
>The built-in CD burning capability is actually easy to use if you forget about the
>previous tools and utilities that have come before. Assuming everything is installed
>correctly and operational, the basics are as follows:
>
>Data CD
>
>1. Insert the new media into the CD-RW drive.
>2. A dialog box will pop up giving several options. Select "Open writable CD folder
>using Windows Explorer" and select the OK option.
>3. Drag and drop any folders and files as needed to this window. (Windows is making
>a copy of the data at this time)
>4. To write to the CD, select the "Write These files to CD" option in the upper
left
>hand options area of Windows Explorer.
>5. Wait for the write to complete and chek your work.
>
>Music CD (Disk Copy - kinda)
>
>1. Insert the new media into the CD-RW drive.
>2. A dialog box will pop up giving several options. Select "Select media to copy
>to CD using Windows Media Player" and select the OK option.
>3. Using the Media Player, select a stored "playlist" to copy to the CD by selecting
>the "Copy to CD or Device" button. (If all you want to fo is copy and existing CD,
>unfortunately, you have to copy[rip] the source music onto disk using the "Copy
from
>CD" button first.
>4. Once you have selected all the playlists to be copy, press the "Record to CD"
>button in the upper right corner of the Media Player. (The selected tracks will
be
>re-convirted to a CD recognizible format and then burned to the CD.)
>
>Note: If making [archive] copies are all you want to do, my mught be better off
purchasing
>an XP tested CD utility software program.
>
>Good burning to you!
>
>-Michael
>
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