I am probably stupid but...

Dan-PDan-P
edited May 2005 in Science & Tech
So..I bought some CD-RWs. I wanted to test them so I put 3 songs onto one of the dics. It worked fine, no problems there. However, I have just tried to add another song and it told me that the disc is either full or not writable. I don't use any burning software, I just drag the files I want into the CD-RW's folder and click 'write these files to CD now'. Do I need to use some sort of software to be able to add to the disc? The discs are Maxwell CD-RW 80 700MB. Thanks

Comments

  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    CD-RWs are a little strange. Wish I could be more technical than that, but I'm constantly surprised by their unpredictable behavior.

    You might need to erase the disk and add the files from scratch.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited May 2005
    Ive never done it that way, I have always used Nero to burn files to CDs/DVDs.

    Burning it like that might have closed the CD. If so then you wont be able to burn anymore songs to it. But yeah since they are CD-RWs, you should be able to erase and then burn them all over again.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited May 2005
    thats what I was thinking as well, but I thought the Windows XP Highmat CD utility differentiated between CD-R and CD-RW, in which case it shouldn't have closed the CD...
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    There is (was released a while ago) an XP update for the HighMAT function. Forget where it is on Microsoft, but suggest updating computer's OS for security given that problem and how it occured.
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