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CD/DVD Burning using Vista

Oct 5, 2007 11:50AM PDT

Hi i used a default dvd burnig builtin of vista home premium. Simply Drag n Drop and close session. But most of the time it dosent close session and make that dvd unsable. but if u use that dvd in your DVD RW drive it shows all the files that u have copied on it but not show those files on any other DVD drive not even in any DVD RW drive.

Please help me find the sloution of this it desent closes the session properly

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My solution was to not use drag and drop.
Oct 5, 2007 12:02PM PDT

I just run a cd/dvd recording software (CDBURNERXP which is free) and it works fine here.

Bob

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My solution was to not use drag and drop.
Oct 6, 2007 11:20AM PDT

iam using nero 7 now but any ay by which i can recover those dvds

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Good news. Since you used DVD RW media you can...
Oct 6, 2007 12:41PM PDT

Copy the content out, then erase them and create a simpler single closed session that most machines understand.

Bob

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Good news. Since you used DVD RW media you can...
Oct 7, 2007 10:40AM PDT

but if a put that dvd in any other dvd RW drive it shows me the remaing space avaliable free in that dvd as an empty disc. supppose i have copied 2 gb of data in that dvd it will show me 2.7 GB free only.

the data is written in that dvd but cant be read by any other drive other than my dvd RW drive by which the data is written on it

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Which is proper.
Oct 8, 2007 3:52AM PDT

Since I don't care for such inventions I move back to simpler single closed session recordings. Only a few more mouse clicks to create but solves the issue you are having.

Bob

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Finalise the disk
Oct 8, 2007 9:18AM PDT

so it can be read on other drives, or better still do what Bob suggested and don't use drag to disk. If you want to move around smaller amounts of data use a USB device.