Can't Burn Second CD

[jim evans]

A friend had never used the CD creation function until yesterday. It
worked one time and will not work again.

He copied the files he wanted to burn to the staging area and burned
them to the CD. This worked and he can read the files on the CD.
After that, when he tries to do it again he gets an error message
saying there is no disk in the drive. (Which of course isn't true.)
Also, the files from the original burn were still in the staging area
even though his computer was turned off overnight. He has now deleted
these files manually. After re-adding files he still gets the error.

The drive shows correctly in "My Computer" and he can read CDs on the
drive normally.

Anyone know what's wrong?

jim

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Jim,

Have him right-click the drive in "My Computer" and select properties. Go to
the recording tab and ensure the option to enable recording is checked.

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"jim evans" > wrote in message
...
>
> A friend had never used the CD creation function until yesterday. It
> worked one time and will not work again.
>
> He copied the files he wanted to burn to the staging area and burned
> them to the CD. This worked and he can read the files on the CD.
> After that, when he tries to do it again he gets an error message
> saying there is no disk in the drive. (Which of course isn't true.)
> Also, the files from the original burn were still in the staging area
> even though his computer was turned off overnight. He has now deleted
> these files manually. After re-adding files he still gets the error.
>
> The drive shows correctly in "My Computer" and he can read CDs on the
> drive normally.
>
> Anyone know what's wrong?
>
> jim

[jim evans]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, the "enable recording" is checked.

jim

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 14:18:19 -0500, "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers"
> wrote:

>Hi Jim,
>
>Have him right-click the drive in "My Computer" and select properties. Go to
>the recording tab and ensure the option to enable recording is checked.

[Harry Ohrn]

Take a look at the Problems section at Alex Nichol's page here
http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.htm

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"jim evans" > wrote in message
...
>
> A friend had never used the CD creation function until yesterday. It
> worked one time and will not work again.
>
> He copied the files he wanted to burn to the staging area and burned
> them to the CD. This worked and he can read the files on the CD.
> After that, when he tries to do it again he gets an error message
> saying there is no disk in the drive. (Which of course isn't true.)
> Also, the files from the original burn were still in the staging area
> even though his computer was turned off overnight. He has now deleted
> these files manually. After re-adding files he still gets the error.
>
> The drive shows correctly in "My Computer" and he can read CDs on the
> drive normally.
>
> Anyone know what's wrong?
>
> jim

[David]

jim evans > wrote in
:

>
> A friend had never used the CD creation function until yesterday. It
> worked one time and will not work again.
>
> He copied the files he wanted to burn to the staging area and burned
> them to the CD. This worked and he can read the files on the CD.
> After that, when he tries to do it again he gets an error message
> saying there is no disk in the drive. (Which of course isn't true.)
> Also, the files from the original burn were still in the staging area
> even though his computer was turned off overnight. He has now deleted
> these files manually. After re-adding files he still gets the error.
>
> The drive shows correctly in "My Computer" and he can read CDs on the
> drive normally.
>
> Anyone know what's wrong?
>
> jim

Sounds liek the CD was closed or Finalized. It won't accept any more
data. Try a new CD.

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