Has anyone actually burnt a CD using Windows?

Question

I run 3 PC's, 2 using XP, one using 2000. Each has a different CD or DVD unit. I have bought different makes of blank CD's. I crack the seal, and Microshi*te tells me the disk is full.
I managed to cut a CD today - but then the PC that cut it said that the CD was unreadable! This on the machine that had just burnt it. The other 2 machines did not recognise it.
I have Nero, etc, but should this be necessary?

Answer 1

I've never burned CDs with anything else but Windows...

Sometimes I have to throw many blank cds out because they are just plain corrupted in some way...

sometimes the cd may not be just set "right" into the drive

and sometimes the cd drive itself is just burned out.

i personally dont like Memorex blank cds and use Imation

also be sure you are using the correct cds and not dvds vice versa in the correct drives.

Hard to believe all three of your computers aren't reading the cds correctly.

To be sure you are doing the burning correctly, here are my instructions:

when i burn cds with windows, I first put all my files into one folder on my desktop. Then i open that folder, select all and then click "copy to folder"..and choose which drive I have my blank CD inserted....at which time a pop up bubble comes up in my task bar at the bottom to let me know I have files ready to be burned..these are temp files stored until you're ready.

In that window, at the top it says to burn these files on to a cd..or something to that affect.

It also asks me if i want to choose audio or data cd
i always choose data, even for music files because I can get more on to a cd that way...

One other thing you could check, is in control panel, administrative tools, click Services and scroll down to be sure that your IMAPI CD burning service is set to manual or automatic and or is not disabled.

Answer 2

First, Windows 2000 does not include any CD burning software, so you will have to install Nero or something else on that PC.

On the XP machines, check that the drives themselves are burners, and not just CD players (CD-ROM). Attempting to burn to a CD-ROM will give you the "disk is full" error.

Try a different brand of CDs. Not all brands work in all burners. Check the web site of your burner's manufacturer for the CD brands they recommend.

Finally, install Nero. It works so much better then the cheap burning abilities in XP that I would not waste time on XP.

Answer 3

I dont think windows has its own burner but there is one that comes with the computer- Mine came with NTI CD and DVD Maker but I also use Nero. Sometimes I couldnt see anything on the cd/dvd even though there was stuff on it but most of those were burnt by my friend who uses a mac (which are annoying to use) so that might be the problem.

Answer 4

Well it may sound weird but your lasers are probably off line. Before you put the cd in the drive you need to check for a light circle going around the outside of the bottom of the side. About a centimeter or two in. This is the seal if it doesnt have it then it is ok to burn with.

Answer 5

Hi, my son put on nero burning rom for me, as i have windows xp,
it is really easy to use.
I think it can be downloaded from the internet but i am not 100% sure.
But without nero i can not burn any cd's, it must be a fault with windows xp, or neither of us know what we are doing (only joking)

Answer 6

Windows only burns data CD's and DVD's(not music or movies). For other uses, it may be illegal to do so. Most computers also comes with software to provide addional features.

Answer 7

even regardless of the indisputable fact that the photos on the Microsoft website are ISO photos, for some reason they supply them IMG extensions. i've got stumbled on that the least puzzling thank you to burn those photos with Nero is first to alter the extension to iso (perfect click on the records in abode windows Explorer and choose rename - replace the final 3 characters from img to iso. be sure you leave the era) then double click on the report. Nero will vehicle start up, and because it acknowledges the ISO extension it is going to wisely extract and write the bootable CD.

Answer 8

I have sometimes found Nero to be a bit flaky telling me it had successfully completed a burn only to find it lied. So I started using Deepburner Free. It has not let me down yet.

Answer 9

Just use Nero it is easy to use so why bother using an inferior burning prog..

Answer 10

If Nero is not suited for any reason, download to try AVS Video Converter from AVS Video Tools: http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/avs-video-tools.htm

It's very simple. Below there is a mini-guide:
- download and install AVS Video Tools, run AVS Video Converter
- open a file or file you want to burn
- select output format (you'll see how to do it, it's really simple)
- click “Convert Now”

That's all!

It supports lot's of video formats: *.avi, *.divx, *.xvid, *.ifo, *.vob, *.vro, *.mp4, *.m4v, *.h263, *.h264, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.m1v, *.m2v, *.dat, *.mpe, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.3gpp, *.3gp2, *.wmv, *.wmv-hd, *.asf, *.mov, *.qt, *.rm, *.rmvb, *.swf, *.dvr-ms, *.dv, *.dif, *.flv, *.mkv, *.ogm.

Also AVS Video Converter has integrated DVD/VCD burning engine.