Burning to a DVD+RW

[Raj Mazumdar]

Hi

I am having difficulties in burning files into a DVD+RW drive. I am
right-clicking on the file and using the "send to" option. A pop up window
comes up saying "copying"... remains forever and there's also another pop-up
that says - "Windows encountered a problem while copying"... and there are
two options in that pop-up -- "Retry" and "Cancel". The "Retry" button just
brings the pop-up back again and nothing else happens. The burner is burning
fine if I use a soft-ware like Sonic, so I suppose that nothing's wrong with
my burner. But after burning it through Sonic, the "My Computer" folder shows
"Used Space" as 590 KB and "Free Space" as 0 for only a 27 KB file burned and
for a 4.7 GB capacity DVD+RW. But I am being able to read from DVDs and CDs
just fine.

Please help! Thanks...

 

[LaManchaDQ]

Windows cannot write to a DVD by itself. You must have something like Nero
to burn DVD's

 

[Raj Mazumdar]

I know what you mean but I was being able to just copy-paste/drag-drop/use
send to into my DVDs before!

 

[Echo S]

First of all, this is a Windows question, not an Office question. You should
post these kinds of questions in the appropriate Windows newsgroups. See
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx for
an alpha list of MS groups available through the web interface.

That said, you have to install software to allow you to copy-paste/drag-drop
to a CD or DVD. For example, Nero has InCD, which allows you to save files
to the CD/DVD, just as you would with a floppy disk or another drive. I
think Roxio refers (referred?) to this as "direct CD." I suspect that you
need to set up this same type of thing in order to use "send to" with a CD
or a DVD.

I personally dislike these "direct CD" programs, because, at least with
PowerPoint (and that's my area of expertise), you're just asking for corrupt
files. It's much better to save the file to your hard drive and then use
CD/DVD burning software to burn to CD or DVD. Or, for CD, you can use
Windows XP's CD burning capability.

 

[Jonny]

You created a closed session on DVD RW media, burning one file using 3rd
party software.

This is not an Office related or XP related question. Windows XP cannot
natively burn to DVD media.

Fellows at microsoft.public.windowsxp.general are more tolerant of such
questions, try there.
You may also consider using help with your 3rd party burning software, and
its corresponding website.
.............
Jonny