SAVINGS AND EDITING FILES ON CD'S

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DONNA WHITED

I don't understand the concept of writable cd's. I need
to be able to save & edit files on a cd because I take
work home almost every night, and the editing that I do
on my spreadsheet & Documents I need to be able to bring
up at work the next day. Every time that I save a doc. on
a cd then I bring it to work it says that it is a Read
only, I thought that CD-R and CD-RW was able to write and
save and retreve a doc. so that you could transfer data
to another computer using a CD. I have a new VIAO 4 with
a DVD-RW/CD- Drive & a CD-ROM Drive at work. What am I
missing?? HELP
 
Do you have the same CD mastering (burning) software on both machines? For CD-RW (drag & drop) UDF packet writing you need the same application on both machines.

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Just my 2¢ worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| I don't understand the concept of writable cd's. I need
| to be able to save & edit files on a cd because I take
| work home almost every night, and the editing that I do
| on my spreadsheet & Documents I need to be able to bring
| up at work the next day. Every time that I save a doc. on
| a cd then I bring it to work it says that it is a Read
| only, I thought that CD-R and CD-RW was able to write and
| save and retreve a doc. so that you could transfer data
| to another computer using a CD. I have a new VIAO 4 with
| a DVD-RW/CD- Drive & a CD-ROM Drive at work. What am I
| missing?? HELP
 
CD-R discs cannot be changed once the data is written to the disc. All
files written to a CD-r will be read-only, and there is no way to defeat
this. You need to use CD-RW discs, so that you can open the files as
necessary and then re-save them, or replace the files on the CD-RW with the
new version. You cannot do this with a CD-R.

Bobby
 
Windows EX does not support "packet writing" which is what
you need to be able to read AND write to files on a CD-RW
disk. Check out Roxio's CD Creator or Nero's CD software.

Good Luck,
Bill

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DONNA said:
I don't understand the concept of writable cd's. I need
to be able to save & edit files on a cd because I take
work home almost every night, and the editing that I do
on my spreadsheet & Documents I need to be able to bring
up at work the next day. Every time that I save a doc. on
a cd then I bring it to work it says that it is a Read
only, I thought that CD-R and CD-RW was able to write and
save and retreve a doc. so that you could transfer data
to another computer using a CD. I have a new VIAO 4 with
a DVD-RW/CD- Drive & a CD-ROM Drive at work. What am I
missing?? HELP
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If you are using the native XP burning software, then you can only write to
a CD-R/RW once (all the files at once).

However you can reuse a CD-RW by putting the disc in the drive (copy
anything you want to HDD), right-click, select 'Erase this disk' (or words
to effect). The disk will then be as when first taken from wrapping.

Take a look at this page (link below), looks a bit irrelevant at the top,
but part way don't becomes a little more relevent;
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm
 
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