My hard drive has three partitions on it. My D drive--with Windows XP installed on it--is running out of space, making it more difficult for me to burn CD-ROMs, since there's not enough space to save all the files I want to burn to a 650MB CD-ROM. Is it possible for me to tell Windows to store the files on the other partitions with more free space available? I have tried to do this by right-clicking on the CD burner drive's icon, choosing Properties, clicking on the Recording tab, and changing the drive where Windows will save an image of the CD-ROM, but that doesn't do anything--Windows still saves the files I want to burn on the D drive. I'm thinking maybe I need to buy some commercial burning software that will work with XP, but I hope I'm wrong. Thanks in advance...

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Problem 1: no disk space (just how small is D:?)
resolution: free up some space it will cause serious problems unless fixed
problem 2: the burning software bundled with XP is weak and in flexible
resolution: third party burning software, roxio has never given me major problems and many people like nero
XP should store the image where you tell it to



On the one occasion that I used it, it used my specified folder

But your badly short on space if 650M trips the warning
All program load files into system folders regardless of where you put their program files
As it your system is in need of some serious trimming if you want it to run at all
But you're going to need more space on the system drive in the future regardless of how much you trim it down
Good luck you're gana need it, Adam Bradley


On Saturday, August 23, 2003 at 5:47 pm, Josh Klugman wrote:
>My hard drive has three partitions on it. My D drive--with Windows XP installed
>on it--is running out of space, making it more difficult for me to burn CD-ROMs,
>since there's not enough space to save all the files I want to burn to a 650MB CD-ROM.
> Is it possible for me to tell Windows to store the files on the other partitions
>with more free space available? I have tried to do this by right-clicking on the
>CD burner drive's icon, choosing Properties, clicking on the Recording tab, and changing
>the drive where Windows will save an image of the CD-ROM, but that doesn't do anything--Windows
>still saves the files I want to burn on the D drive. I'm thinking maybe I need to
>buy some commercial burning software that will work with XP, but I hope I'm wrong.
>
>Thanks in advance...

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I use Nero, and it lets me decide where to save it, but I believe that Powertoys (TweakUI for XP) lets you make the changes you are talking about - just be sure that what you ask for is what you really want as Microsoft sometimes makes it difficult to "normalize" things after making some changes. If you are really running low on disk space, you might consider another hard drive (I have an 80G primary and a 30G I use for backups/images, etc)


On Saturday, August 23, 2003 at 5:47 pm, Josh Klugman wrote:
>My hard drive has three partitions on it. My D drive--with Windows XP installed
>on it--is running out of space, making it more difficult for me to burn CD-ROMs,
>since there's not enough space to save all the files I want to burn to a 650MB CD-ROM.
> Is it possible for me to tell Windows to store the files on the other partitions
>with more free space available? I have tried to do this by right-clicking on the
>CD burner drive's icon, choosing Properties, clicking on the Recording tab, and changing
>the drive where Windows will save an image of the CD-ROM, but that doesn't do anything--Windows
>still saves the files I want to burn on the D drive. I'm thinking maybe I need to
>buy some commercial burning software that will work with XP, but I hope I'm wrong.
>
>Thanks in advance...

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Change or create the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\CD 
Burning

It is an expandable string that you can point to whatever drive/directory that you 
want the temporary data files to be stored in.

HTH,
-Mike








On Saturday, August 23, 2003 at 5:47 pm, Josh Klugman wrote:

>My hard drive has three partitions on it.  My D drive--with Windows XP installed 

>on it--is running out of space, making it more difficult for me to burn CD-ROMs, 

>since there's not enough space to save all the files I want to burn to a 650MB CD-ROM. 

> Is it possible for me to tell Windows to store the files on the other partitions 

>with more free space available?  I have tried to do this by right-clicking on the 

>CD burner drive's icon, choosing Properties, clicking on the Recording tab, and 
changing 

>the drive where Windows will save an image of the CD-ROM, but that doesn't do anything--Windows 

>still saves the files I want to burn on the D drive.  I'm thinking maybe I need 
to 

>buy some commercial burning software that will work with XP, but I hope I'm wrong.

>

>Thanks in advance... 

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