I burn Power Point on CD-R but I can't burn twice?

Question

Every church activity (Sunday and Wednesday) needs a Power Point display showing activity information. I make the presentation at home, burn it on a CD -R take it to church, run it, then bring the disk home to copy another power point presentation. But, one copy is all it will allow, there's certainly room on the disk. Someone help please? I Re-Formatted the disk which did not help.

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Answer 1

technically, if your device and CD-burning software support it, for CD-R you can "close a session", and still be able to add additional files to a disc. but you would not be able to reformat or edit any existing files on a disk, unless it is a CD-RW. and if the drive you are reading it from is a CD-ROM, you need to be using CD-Rs. I mean, you can't add something to a music CD by your favorite band you bought at a record store, right? this is the same thing.

You could copy as many things to the disc that you want, but once the disc is closed, you cannot add anything else.

CDs are so cheap, but what you are doing seems a bit like a waste. what about getting a flash drive instead? they are SO convenient, and they work just like you are use to floppies or your harddrive working.

If the computer at church has a USB port, and the computer at your house has a USB port, I'd get a USB flash drive and stop wasting CDs.

You can get a 1 GB flash drive for less than $20 these days, and that's 350 MB more than an CD.

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Answer 2

CD-R is write once media.
CD-RW is re-writeable.

If you close a session and finalize the disc when burning you cannot add to it. You can choose not to finalize the disc but you may have trouble reading from it.
Keep copies on hard drive. Write new and old ones to the same disc if you need to have more than one at a time with you.
Otherwise, one at a time.
And if you're just using one at a time, consider a USB flash drive.

Answer 3

You must be using single session writing after which the cd is closed for further writing. Select Multisession writing before starting writing on the cd. And writable cds can not be formatted as they are nor re-writable. If you are using re-writable cds, then you may need to use a separate software for it, which allows you to use them like another hard disk on your computer, it means you can directly save files on them.

Answer 4

Save your presentations as a Data CD and run the programs from there. Be sure to use Multisession when making the data CD, so you can add more presentation files later on.

Answer 5

You can alternatively use Nero and don't tick "close session" to be able to re-write on CD-R disks which are normally read only.

You can alternatively buy CD-RW disks

Answer 6

Your burning program should have a "close disc" option. Make sure this is unchecked.

The close disc option makes the disc locked to future additions. They include the option because some disc readers (especially older ones) have trouble reading discs that are left "open".

This should solve your problem.

Answer 7

Is it a rewritable disk? If not then it won't work. It should say CD-rw on the pack of discs.

Answer 8

If u enable multisession then probably, but for music cds (cd players that can only hold like 12n songs) probably not, if mp3 files/any computer files u can keep writing on the disk

Answer 9

probably you have not burned the disk with multisession option.the other reason may be that the second pp must have the same name as the first one

Answer 10

If you are using CD-RW disc, then try using a new one.

If its a CD-R then you cant reformat them, they are not designed for that.