Cannot burn disc

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I cannnot burn a disc by doing drag/drop of files. See attached. Everytime I
insert a fresh blank CD-RW and do a drag/drop it forces me to format the
disc. When its done, and I try again it won't allow me to drag and drop
anything.

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Chad said:
I cannnot burn a disc by doing drag/drop of files. See attached. Everytime
I
insert a fresh blank CD-RW and do a drag/drop it forces me to format the
disc. When its done, and I try again it won't allow me to drag and drop
anything.
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Have you tried actually going through the motions to copy image to disc,
rather than dragging the file?
 
Chad said:
1. How do I do that?

2. Why is drag/drop not working and forcing me to format?
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ISO files do not work like that. What you have is a proper disc image, not
just a program you can put onto disc. You should really also use a CDR and
not a rewritable one.
What sort of burning program are you using?
 
I'm simply using vista's windows explorer to drag drop. I've never had such a
problem before. I'm not sure where you get "iso" in the first place. I never
mentioned such. I am simply copying an unzipped copy of windows xp home
(drag/drop) so I can install it on a virtual pc to run programs not
compatible with vista. I had to use this copy (not a cd) as the cd's I have
is IBM standard (7 of them) and that will overwrite vista if I did it that
way.

As a matter of fact, I even dragged/dropped a single text file - same error.
 
I just inserted another unformatted blank disc and it poppped up a dialog box
wanting to force me (no other option at least) to format this disc. Why?
 
Chad said:
I'm simply using vista's windows explorer to drag drop. I've never had
such a
problem before. I'm not sure where you get "iso" in the first place. I
never
mentioned such. I am simply copying an unzipped copy of windows xp home
(drag/drop) so I can install it on a virtual pc to run programs not
compatible with vista. I had to use this copy (not a cd) as the cd's I
have
is IBM standard (7 of them) and that will overwrite vista if I did it that
way.
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Sorry Chad, with all the posts of people wanting to know how to burn the
vista disc I totally got the wrong end of the stick of your post.
 
I'm simply using vista's windows explorer to drag drop. I've never had such a
problem before. I'm not sure where you get "iso" in the first place. I never
mentioned such. I am simply copying an unzipped copy of windows xp home
(drag/drop) so I can install it on a virtual pc to run programs not
compatible with vista. I had to use this copy (not a cd) as the cd's I have
is IBM standard (7 of them) and that will overwrite vista if I did it that
way.

As a matter of fact, I even dragged/dropped a single text file - same error.

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I have not tried the built in burning in Vista so not sure. But if
Vista is like XP...drag and drop burning is not supported.


 
Vista certainly does support drag & drop burning! In fact, with the "live
format" you can also update and delete files on the disc! If the disc is
blank, it WILL force a format first!
Regards,
Mike L
 
I have the exact same problem. It is not that I cannot use a seperat burning
program, but I just want to figure out why I cannot make it work, using
Vistas built in function.
It doesn't matter whether I drag and drop; or choose "copy to disc"; or
right-click on a file and choose "send to" -> "DVD-drive".
It doesn't matter whether it is a CD-R or a CD-RW disc.
I simply manage to format lots of discs...

I hope Microsoft has this fixed in the final release.
 
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