Please Help with CD-RW

jimb11 · Jun 21, 2004

1. I thought CD-RW's worked the same way floppy's did! When I got mine installed today by a tech he told me I had to download any setup.exe to the hard drive first and then put in on a CD-RW. That's just a extra step I have to do that I didn't do with a floppy. Is there any way I can just download a program directly to the CD-RW? I also have InCD 4 and Nero Express 5.5.

2. I also only have 4 files saved on my CD-R and it tells me I have used up 60 MB's already. These files don't even come close to that so why is Nero Express reading such a high MB total?

DavidGP · Jun 22, 2004

1. Yes you can, but you will have to format the CDRW ( for packet writing/drag n drop ) first, then you can on the save as box pick your CDRW drive to save the file.

2. possibly if you are using CDR for multi-session writing it does take up more space than the files you are saving and for each subsequent session more space will be lost ( 15mb+ per session IIRC ) so if saving to CDR over a period of time it maybe worth having a temp folder with what you want to save and once you have enough fo fit a CDR then burn it.

ASUS · Jun 22, 2004

You can use InCD to use CDRW Same as floppy,
I have InCD on desktop in the tray, Left click Brings up InCD Wizard will walk ya thru, right Click gives ya three options: Properties/Format/Version Info

ASUS · Jun 22, 2004

Make sure ya got Nero updates off thier web site.

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