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Thread ID: 44559	2004-04-23 02:05:00	CD with one item says full?	beetle (243)	Press F1

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231321	2004-04-23 02:05:00	a nearly blank CD with one item on it, an audio which i cannot play i want to write over it, it gave me that option before, ( SKC CD-R ) took the CD out to slot in something else,( saving / testing ) and then replaced it again and now it says CD is full and cannot be used, im presuming i now have a coaster with one item on it. what happened? why would i not be able to play something i saved to it? (Windows Media) let alone now not be able to copy anything else to it? im running out of CD's and wanted to use it like a blank and copy over it, cant just pop to the shop today...... any ideas what i did wrong? beetle	beetle (243)
231322	2004-04-23 02:07:00	Sounds like it was finalised before you removed it. If so, that's the end of it I'm afraid. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
231323	2004-04-23 02:30:00	but i have not had that option before, and had got room to save to it minutes before and did nothing with it just poped it out, have never finalised anything as far as i know. as i have never managed to fill a cd to capacity as of yet... i can handle it if it becomes a coaster just go and get some more i guess. does it say finalise? at some stage as an option? beetle	beetle (243)
231324	2004-04-23 03:03:00	OK so its sucked the kumara big time. when does finalisation happen? ?:| this is new for me, help please. beetle	beetle (243)
231325	2004-04-23 04:40:00	From Nero Help Files: Finalize CD When a CD is finalized, it is 'locked' and can no longer be burned . Depending on the type of medium you are burning, this is a necessary process which enables the medium to be used to the full extent . All the options are correctly set in Nero's default settings . Multisession: Multisession CDs are advisable, say, when making a weekly Backup of a number of folders on a CD . When an ISO compilation is created the required folder is written to the CD in every new session . Since only a few files may have changed, writing the entire folder again would have the following disadvantages: Burning would take an unnecessarily long time because redundant data are being written each time . Valuable CD space would be wasted as the same data is copied a number of times . With a CD-R, data can only be written to a CD but cannot be deleted or changed, so the following procedure is used with Multisession CDs: Instead of writing the unchanged data again with every session (i . e . every backup procedure), Nero only writes cross-references to a previous CD track which contains the unchanged file . Only the changed files are completely re-written . By activating the two checkboxes 'Replace files in compilation' and 'Add new files to compilation' in the 'Options' section you will ensure that this actually happens . Of course when individual sessions are linked to one another there must be some way of ensuring that the tracks (which have a definite connection to an existing CD) are not written to another CD by mistake . This would make all files with references outside the tracks unreadable later on! For this reason Nero checks that the correct CD has been loaded for burning . If it hasn't, then the CD that has been loaded in error is ejected . You will find detailed information about burning Multisession CDs in the chapters 'Creating a Multisession CD (Start))', 'Creating a Multisession CD (Continue))' and 'Creating a Multisession CD (Finish)' . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------	godfather (25)
231326	2004-04-23 05:36:00	Um i didnt use nero, i just used the Win XP one as i just want a copy, nothing major and so did it that way, have not got around to using Nero consistently yet. thats half my problem i think i stick to the XP progs and then wonder why it went wrong. thanxs Goddie. beetle	beetle (243)
231327	2004-04-23 07:10:00	Beetle, you don't say what programme in XP that you are using. Mine came with Prassi CD Plus Starter. This has 3 alternative ways of recording A Copy a CD Rom to a CD Rom B Audio files C Data files Presumably if your nearly blank CD has been set up to use Audio it will only record more audio when set up to record Audio and if it has not been finalised If the Audio setting up was incorrect you will have a coaster. As a CD-R it cannot be written over. If it was a CD-RW it could be written over. Just tried to record some audio on a CD-R that already had some data on it and it all turned to custard. Perhaps Godfather can advise if there are different Audio formats which maybe another reason for your problem.	FrankS (257)
231328	2004-04-23 07:39:00	beetle will be using the "native" burning options under Windows XP, just as she says . It does not require the use of any external software . I do not know if it finalises or not, but suspect so when CD-R are used, possibly not when CD-RW are used .	godfather (25)
231329	2004-04-23 09:50:00	Goddie is right, using the Native edition, have no idea what it is called, and as using CD-R 's that could explain heaps..... going shoping i can see for CD-RW's thanxs all, info not known here so glad of the help. beetle	beetle (243)
231330	2004-04-23 10:00:00	beetle, I do not recommend the use CD-RW for backups of important data . I have seen too many failures of these media . They may not be readable on some other computers as well, when drag and drop copying is used . CD-R are cheap enough for use without them needing to be added to IMO	godfather (25)
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