I have an external, Read/Write CD Rom drive as well as an internal CD-R drive. I want to burn some files onto a new, CD-R disk. I place the new (blank) CD-R disk in my R/W drive. But, the PC sends me an error message claiming that drive is not accessible/incorrect function. So, just to test it, I put in a CD I know has info burned on it. The external drive worked fine - no problem.
I never experienced this problem before. Why won’t the external R/W drive recognize that the blank disc is there for a reason??? How can I burn files to a CD if the drive doesn’t seem to like a blank CD disk in it? It reminds me of how, in the onld days, you had to initialize a floppy. (Nowadays, floppies come initialized.) Is that what is happening here? I kinda doubt it because this is NOT a re-writeable disk. (Once initialized, that would be the end of it!)
At work, I can drag files directly to the R/W drive’s icon and then write the copy. Here, perhaps because it is an external Backpack writer drive, I wager I have to go through the Backpack software package…what an unnecessary pain in the butt process!
Is there really such a need to jump through such hoops? Is it because it’s an external drive, and why should that matter???
OK, I solved the problem…as I am talking to myself on this thread. But, why should it matter that the external R/W CD-Rom drive requires me to go through the software package instead of just dragging from Windows Explorer, and then sayign “Write to drive”? Must be an idiosyncrasy of the manufacturer of the external drive, huh? or, could there be some more practical/logical reason?
Generally, that functionality needs some sort of packet-writing software that will allow you to write on the fly like that. So at work, you’ve probably got some sort of software that’ll allow you to do that, or perhaps you’re running XP at work (which I know has a built-in CD burner function, but I don’t remember if it’ll do packet writing) and 98 at home (which I know doesn’t).