Why is CD burning such a pain?

[ShinyRocks]

I downloaded the great Nero. I have some images about 14 MB added. When I go burn some more, the previous images are gone!!! I can't recover them because I already deleted the orginals!!!. On top of that, that 14MB is getting burned each time. a couple of pictures about 12 MB are taking over 300 MB because they keep on getting burned over and over again. Man, why can't the cD be more like a floppy disk?

 

[Nothinman]

CDs weren't designed to be used like that, they were designed to be burned completely in one big session by stampers. If you use packet writing (Nero InCD) it works like that, but thats less reliable IMO.

You should have multiple sessions on the CD and you should be able to switch between them to recover the data, you only get so many session switches though as it writes to the disc to pick the session.

 

[ShinyRocks]

How do I switch between each session? I don't want to lose my pictures.

 

[Nothinman]

There should be a way in the Nero software somewhere, I'm not sure exactly because I don't use that software very much.

 

[ShinyRocks]

 

[lucky9]

don't use the wizard. when you get out of the wizard there is a tab at the top of the window that says multisession (second tab from the left) click it then click the radio button to start multisession, then just go and pick the files you want to burn and burn them. when you want to add some more to that disk go to the same tab and click continue multisession and pick your files and burn them. at some point the program will tell you you need to close the multisession disk (it may do it automatically with some versions of nero) then you'll have to filalize that disk. help file in nero will help a lot.

 

[EeyoreX]

Also, if you want to use your CD-R/W like a big floppy, you need to use CD-RW discs, not CD-R, and packet writing software. That way, you can add files like you would on a big floppy.

\Dan