Formating CD's

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Is there a built-in program in XP Pro that will format a CD? I have Roxio
"drag-to-disk" but's it's very unreliable. It keeps telling me that my CD is
"bad". I install another CD and it formats. I then re-install the "bad" cd
and it get formatted.
 
Mike D said:
Is there a built-in program in XP Pro that will format a CD? I have Roxio
"drag-to-disk" but's it's very unreliable. It keeps telling me that my CD
is
"bad". I install another CD and it formats. I then re-install the "bad"
cd
and it get formatted.
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No, XP has no facility for this. If you find Roxio's product unsuitable,
there are others, such as Nero's InCD or Sonic DLA. If you decide to use
those, be sure that you've succesfully uninstalled the Roxio product first.

And do be aware that the problem may be with the hardware - the drive - not
the disk or the software. And if you buy a replacement drive, these often
come with Nero.

HTH
-pk
 
Patrick said:
No, XP has no facility for this. If you find Roxio's product unsuitable,
there are others, such as Nero's InCD or Sonic DLA. If you decide to use
those, be sure that you've succesfully uninstalled the Roxio product first.

And do be aware that the problem may be with the hardware - the drive - not
the disk or the software. And if you buy a replacement drive, these often
come with Nero.

HTH
-pk
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I agree with Patrick. It could be the drive itself, but I'm willing to
bet it's Roxio. Roxio is - the - *ABSOLUTE* - bottom of the barrel in
programs of that type. I have not used Sonic, though I have heard good
things about it. Nero is wonderful, but is a little expensive (about
$70 usually), and if you buy it by itself, make sure you get version 7.0
if you plan to upgrade to Vista eventually (all versions below 7.0 are
incompatible with Vista, or so Microsoft's "Vistas Ready" program tells me).

And pay strict attention to Patrick's advice about COMPELTELY
uninstalling Roxio first.

Tony
 
Thank You both for your input. I assume that when you state to "Completely"
uninstall Roxio you not only mean through the control panel but also I should
go to the C:\Program Files\Roxio and make sure that the folder is gone. If
not, delete "Them".

Thank you again.
 
Mike said:
Thank You both for your input. I assume that when you state to "Completely"
uninstall Roxio you not only mean through the control panel but also I should
go to the C:\Program Files\Roxio and make sure that the folder is gone. If
not, delete "Them".

Thank you again.
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Well, the best way is to use the Roxio Uninstall. When that finishes,
then go to the folder and delete the rest of the leftovers and folder, yes.

If you have conflict problems later on with whatever replacement program
for Roxio you install, then you'll need to do a registry search (F3 with
Regedit open) and delete any and all references to it - but that may not
be as thorough as you think. Alternately, you can get one of those
"Registry Cleaner" tools and remove any Registry traces of it. And I
remember Roxio as being one of the most stubborn programs I ever had to
pry the bits and pieces of off my hard drive. But . . . the Roxio
uninstall program on my computer was corrupt. If it works OK on yours,
you should be fine.

Oh, and if you are running Norton System Works, the "WinDoc" feature
will find the references and allow you to delete them.

Tony
 
Patrick Keenan said:
No, XP has no facility for this. If you find Roxio's product unsuitable,
there are others, such as Nero's InCD or Sonic DLA. If you decide to use
those, be sure that you've succesfully uninstalled the Roxio product
first.

And do be aware that the problem may be with the hardware - the drive -
not the disk or the software. And if you buy a replacement drive, these
often come with Nero.
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You should be aware that different versions of Drag-to-Disc and InCD often
use different versions of the Packet Incremental Format (which is what you
are using), and thus you may not be able to read your existing disks. This
is especially true if you have used Drag-to-disc to write to CD-R discs.
InCD does not support CD-Rs.

It is worth noting that due to limitations of the hardware, Packet
Incremental Format is not as reliable as users might think it is. It should
never be used to store the only copy of anything remotely valuable.
 
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