Anybody make this kind of cd burning software??

[LawyerRon]

Does anyone make cd burning software that allows you to "save" to a cd from the file menu, ie, like if you were in MS Word & you would perform file>save to a floppy in the A drive? Can you do the same thing to a cd burner?

[Force Flow]

I think Roxio's Easy CD Creator enables you to "format" the CD-R so you can drag files onto it. I'm assuming that you can save to it.

I have it on a workstation at work, so I could double check on it on monday.

[TwoRails]

Both Nero and Roxio have that. With Nero it's called InCD. Roxio now calls their version Drag-to-Disc. You still want to use a CD-RW until it's full, then burn a "permenent" CD-R. With a CD-RW in the burner, it acts just like any other drive, even a floppy.

[LawyerRon]

Thanks TwoR,
I never used InCD much so I'll check it out. My friend has Nero 6.0 and InCD.
If I recall, you have to format the cd first, correct? And this takes a bit of time.

[TwoRails]

Originally Posted by LawyerRon Thanks TwoR, I never used InCD much so I'll check it out. My friend has Nero 6.0 and InCD. If I recall, you have to format the cd first, correct? And this takes a bit of time.

Yes and no. You can do the "quick format" option on the CD-RW where it takes only a minute or two on modern machines. You can start using it after that point; the formating goes on in the background. If you do the "full" format option, then it takes about 12 - 15 minutes before you can use it. Of course the actual time vary depending on the speed of the burner and the rating of the CD-RW.

[RJ]

Yes you have to format the CD first. Just like you have to format a hard drive or a floppy before you can use it.

The amount of time required depends. If you have a modern burner, with Mount Rainier support, it takes less than a minute.
Without MRW, it takes about 40 Minutes. The quick format won't work if it's not already formatted.

RJ

[TwoRails]

Even back with my early burners, like the HP 8100 (which was what, a 2x?) you could put in a blank / new CD-RW and start using it in short time. If I remember right, it was about a 6-7 minute wait and then start using it. Back then a full format was at least an hour.

I just stuck in a brand new, never used TDK CDRW into my burner. Windows Explorer correctly said the drive is "not accesible." I fired up my format options and Do have the Quck Format option, which I use regularly. Attached is a screen shot:

[RJ]

Hm. Strange. I never had that option with my Plextor 12/10/32A. I was using DirectCD back then.

RJ

[TwoRails]

Even though I have InCD on other machines (bundled with the burner software), I never have used it for formatting. So, for giggles, I tried one of my older boxes with an AMD 1.333 T-Bird, a 32x burner, and InCD 3.x. It did Not give me an option for "quick" format.

I have the latest version of InCd, but don't have it installed on this machince as I it is not compatible with Roxio software. It would be interesting to see what options it has.

[RayH]

It used to take 45 minutes to format a CD-RW. That's why I just use CD R for Packet Writing. The disks are cheap enough.