CD writing problem

[John]

I understand the XP professional has CD writing
capabilities. Not for me- everytime I try to copy files
and burn a CD. I get a message that it's not properly
formatted??? Should I have to format/ If so how?

[Harry Ohrn]

Alex Nichol's has an excellent primer on CD Burning in XP. check it out here
http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.htm

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell\User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"John" > wrote in message
...
> I understand the XP professional has CD writing
> capabilities. Not for me- everytime I try to copy files
> and burn a CD. I get a message that it's not properly
> formatted??? Should I have to format/ If so how?

[Alex Nichol]

John wrote:

>I understand the XP professional has CD writing=20
>capabilities. Not for me- everytime I try to copy files=20
>and burn a CD. I get a message that it's not properly=20
>formatted??? Should I have to format/ If so how?

No you should not - and may be using a disk that has been previously
formatted for some packet writing mode, which the inbuilt burning does
not use. Read up at http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.