Repost hoping for MS MVP reply

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I posted the following question several days ago and got no reply. Maybe no
one knows the answer but I'm betting one of the MS MVP's can help, if they
see this, therefore, a repost. Maybe I'm in the wrong newsgroup.

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I have a blank 4.7 Gigabyte DVD +RW in my DVD burner. When I go to Explorer
and click on the E: drive (that's the letter for my DVD burner) it
recognizes the drive and a label I gave the disk. I did burn a file to the
disk (from my burning software), Explorer recognized it and ran it from the
disk. I then erased the
file.
However, when I right click on the drive letter in Explorer and check for
"properties" it shows a capacity of 1.99 MB and also lists the "used space"
as 1.99 MB and the "free" space as zero. When I go into my burning software
that came with the computer (RecordNow! by Sonic), it properly shows the
size of the blank disk.

Why isn't Explorer in my XP SP2 properly reading the size of this disk in my
optical drive?

And while I'm here, related question: Is there any tool in XP that would
allow me to use this DVD +RW just as if it were a floppy? In my old Windows
98, one could do this with a CDRW but only with packet writing software (I
used to use InCD from Nero) loaded. Does XP require this type of additional
program
to use DVD RW's as if they were a floppy? I don't plan on doing this but
I'm curious.

Thanks.

Chet
 
And while I'm here, related question: Is there any tool in XP that would
allow me to use this DVD +RW just as if it were a floppy? In my old
Windows
98, one could do this with a CDRW but only with packet writing software (I
used to use InCD from Nero) loaded. Does XP require this type of
additional program
to use DVD RW's as if they were a floppy? I don't plan on doing this but
I'm curious.

Thanks.

Chet
Click to expand...

You need Nero's InCD or Roxio's Drag-to-disk installed to do this.


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Mon said:
Why isn't Explorer in my XP SP2 properly reading the size of this disk in my
optical drive?
Click to expand...

Explorer can't write to a CD or DVD, and therefore as far as Explorer
is concerned the available space _is_ zero.

(The CD writer that comes with Windows looks like it's part of
Explorer but actually it's a stripped-down Roxio program, I've been
told.)
 
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