burning a cd or photographs

[Dumbo#1]

Why am I not able to burn a copy of a cd or photographs to a cd-r yet am able to burn to a cd-rw?? It's really making me nuts. Thanks!

[sarah_louise]

Could it be ?
A CD-RW acts like an extra Drive and is probably formatted..
A CD may need to be formatted first by the CD Burning software.
What error message.
What software ?

[madsteve]

Had this it can be one of a few things

1 your writer is on the blink, not impossible my dvd writer would write CD's DVD's but not DVD-RW's

2 Your CD is one that's been used before and is not a multisession disc

3 The CD could be faulty

[ACtheTROLL]

sl
you are thinking of dvd-ram

CD-r and CD-rw are both effectively just soft pieces of plastic ... the burner just heats the surface of the reflective "data layer" burning pits into the plastic.

the reader then bounces a beam onto the reflective layer ... and uses the refracted wobbles as 1s and 0s.

any notional "format" is done on the fly.

the difference between -r and -rw is that -rw can be reset .... so re-heating allows the surface to flatten out.

a cheapo drive conforms to lots and lots of different standards Supports DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, DVD+/- RL, DVD+/-RW DL, DVD RAM and CD-R, CD-RW to name a few -

just to add another to mad steves list
unless proved wrong ... I'd suspect a duff batch of discs



it could be the software ... see if you can update to the latest version ... uninstall/reinstall.