What can't be burned onto a disc - technically speaking

On 4 Mar 2005 17:56:51 -0800, "stonej" <stonej DeleteThis @mail.lib.msu.edu>
wrote:

 >My son tried to download some files he has with comic illustrations
 >onto a disc. It said that the disc was "full"
 >(no room left) but it was a brand new disc - never used.
 >
 >They were 80 minute discs from Staples. That fact that it says
 >minutes - does that mean they are for music only?
 >
 >We recently had the computer upgraded from Windows 98 to XP.
 >Could there be a compatability problem?

The disc is not formatted maybe? What program are you using to burn
the disc? What Operating System are you using?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Connected wrote:
 > On 4 Mar 2005 17:56:51 -0800, "stonej" <stonej.RemoveThis@mail.lib.msu.edu>
 > wrote:
 >
  > >My son tried to download some files he has with comic illustrations
  > >onto a disc. It said that the disc was "full"
  > >(no room left) but it was a brand new disc - never used.
  > >
  > >They were 80 minute discs from Staples. That fact that it says
  > >minutes - does that mean they are for music only?
  > >
  > >We recently had the computer upgraded from Windows 98 to XP.
  > >Could there be a compatability problem?
 >
 > The disc is not formatted maybe? What program are you using to burn
 > the disc? What Operating System are you using?



It is a CD Writing wizard on Windows XP.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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stonej wrote:
 > Connected wrote:
  > > On 4 Mar 2005 17:56:51 -0800, "stonej" <stonej.DeleteThis@mail.lib.msu.edu>
  > > wrote:
  > >
   > > >My son tried to download some files he has with comic
illustrations
   > > >onto a disc. It said that the disc was "full"
   > > >(no room left) but it was a brand new disc - never used.
   > > >
   > > >They were 80 minute discs from Staples. That fact that it says
   > > >minutes - does that mean they are for music only?
   > > >
   > > >We recently had the computer upgraded from Windows 98 to XP.
   > > >Could there be a compatability problem?
  > >
  > > The disc is not formatted maybe? What program are you using to burn
  > > the disc? What Operating System are you using?
 >
 >
 >
 > It is a CD Writing wizard on Windows XP.

Got it fixed last night. We had the tech person on the phone that
recently updated our computer from Windows 98 to XP and he talked my
son through the process and they figured out what he was doing wrong.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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On 6 Mar 2005 05:47:09 -0800, "stonej" <stonej.RemoveThis@mail.lib.msu.edu>
wrote:


 >Got it fixed last night. We had the tech person on the phone that
 >recently updated our computer from Windows 98 to XP and he talked my
 >son through the process and they figured out what he was doing wrong.

Good. It's a pretty simple process if using XP to do it. Just open the
CDRW drive in explorer and drag and drop the files onto that open
explorer window then choose write these files to disc. Windows will
then say preparing disc to write (formatting) and then burn them to
the disc.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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