burning a data DVD

maya

hi,

I'm on windows ultimate.. I need to burn a DATA DVD.. for some reason
this is proving a challenge.. you can't do it w/WMC, as it doesn't
afford possibility of browsing to folders you want to burn..

my roxio 10 isn't letting me do it either (when I go to "Data and
Backup" I get to a window where under "Data Disc" it says, "Easily
create and bun a data CD or DVD or save a disc image to your hard
drive"... so I click on this "Data Disc" link, choose folder, click on
yellow button at bottom right ("click this button to continue") but it
just hangs.. nothing happens.. (and yes I do have a blank DVD loaded in
the drive...)

just downloaded a trial version of nero.. same thing, you can do all
sorts of fancy stuff, like burn music DVD's, movies, video, do fancy
menus, slideshows, etc.. but I want none of that, I just want to burn a
bunch of JPG's to a DVD (A LOT of them actually, only reason need to
burn them on a DVD instead of a regular data CD is that it's so many
images that I would have to burn about four CD's to burn all the images
I want to burn..)

I just want a DATA DVD that when user inserts it in the machine they can
browse the files... but this is proving a bit difficult, which is a
bit strange, I mean this is a very simple thing.. how can I do this..

thank you..

Bob

Have you tried "copy and paste"?

"maya" <maya778899@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:z9CdncFMnN3CGsDVnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
> hi,
>
> I'm on windows ultimate.. I need to burn a DATA DVD.. for some reason
> this is proving a challenge.. you can't do it w/WMC, as it doesn't
> afford possibility of browsing to folders you want to burn..
>
> my roxio 10 isn't letting me do it either (when I go to "Data and
> Backup" I get to a window where under "Data Disc" it says, "Easily
> create and bun a data CD or DVD or save a disc image to your hard
> drive"... so I click on this "Data Disc" link, choose folder, click on
> yellow button at bottom right ("click this button to continue") but it
> just hangs.. nothing happens.. (and yes I do have a blank DVD loaded in
> the drive...)
>
> just downloaded a trial version of nero.. same thing, you can do all
> sorts of fancy stuff, like burn music DVD's, movies, video, do fancy
> menus, slideshows, etc.. but I want none of that, I just want to burn a
> bunch of JPG's to a DVD (A LOT of them actually, only reason need to
> burn them on a DVD instead of a regular data CD is that it's so many
> images that I would have to burn about four CD's to burn all the images
> I want to burn..)
>
> I just want a DATA DVD that when user inserts it in the machine they can
> browse the files... but this is proving a bit difficult, which is a
> bit strange, I mean this is a very simple thing.. how can I do this..
>
> thank you..
>

maya

Bob wrote:
> Have you tried "copy and paste"?
>
> "maya" <maya778899@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:z9CdncFMnN3CGsDVnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>> hi,
>>
>> I'm on windows ultimate.. I need to burn a DATA DVD.. for some reason
>> this is proving a challenge.. you can't do it w/WMC, as it doesn't
>> afford possibility of browsing to folders you want to burn..
>>
>> my roxio 10 isn't letting me do it either (when I go to "Data and
>> Backup" I get to a window where under "Data Disc" it says, "Easily
>> create and bun a data CD or DVD or save a disc image to your hard
>> drive"... so I click on this "Data Disc" link, choose folder, click on
>> yellow button at bottom right ("click this button to continue") but it
>> just hangs.. nothing happens.. (and yes I do have a blank DVD loaded in
>> the drive...)
>>
>> just downloaded a trial version of nero.. same thing, you can do all
>> sorts of fancy stuff, like burn music DVD's, movies, video, do fancy
>> menus, slideshows, etc.. but I want none of that, I just want to burn a
>> bunch of JPG's to a DVD (A LOT of them actually, only reason need to
>> burn them on a DVD instead of a regular data CD is that it's so many
>> images that I would have to burn about four CD's to burn all the images
>> I want to burn..)
>>
>> I just want a DATA DVD that when user inserts it in the machine they can
>> browse the files... but this is proving a bit difficult, which is a
>> bit strange, I mean this is a very simple thing.. how can I do this..
>>
>> thank you..
>>
>


yep, if I try to drag (or paste) files into the DVD it says it has to be
formatted, I click yes, then it asks me for CD name, then I see the
"calculating time.." thingie.... but after a little while get another
alert that says the disc can't be formatted..

thank you...

maya

Bob wrote:
> Have you tried "copy and paste"?
>
> "maya" <maya778899@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:z9CdncFMnN3CGsDVnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>> hi,
>>
>> I'm on windows ultimate.. I need to burn a DATA DVD.. for some reason
>> this is proving a challenge.. you can't do it w/WMC, as it doesn't
>> afford possibility of browsing to folders you want to burn..
>>
>> my roxio 10 isn't letting me do it either (when I go to "Data and
>> Backup" I get to a window where under "Data Disc" it says, "Easily
>> create and bun a data CD or DVD or save a disc image to your hard
>> drive"... so I click on this "Data Disc" link, choose folder, click on
>> yellow button at bottom right ("click this button to continue") but it
>> just hangs.. nothing happens.. (and yes I do have a blank DVD loaded in
>> the drive...)
>>
>> just downloaded a trial version of nero.. same thing, you can do all
>> sorts of fancy stuff, like burn music DVD's, movies, video, do fancy
>> menus, slideshows, etc.. but I want none of that, I just want to burn a
>> bunch of JPG's to a DVD (A LOT of them actually, only reason need to
>> burn them on a DVD instead of a regular data CD is that it's so many
>> images that I would have to burn about four CD's to burn all the images
>> I want to burn..)
>>
>> I just want a DATA DVD that when user inserts it in the machine they can
>> browse the files... but this is proving a bit difficult, which is a
>> bit strange, I mean this is a very simple thing.. how can I do this..
>>
>> thank you..
>>
>

ok, after numerous attempts, I was able to drag one folder to the disk..
now it says, on top of the folder: "files ready to be written to the
disc.." so HOW do I write them?? i.e., how do I finalize the burning
of the files? I'm just doing a test-burn now.. but eventually will need
to burn about 1.4 GB of images to a read-only disk.. but before I do
that need to make sure I can make this work.. HOW do I finalize the
burning of the files to the DVD??

thank you..

maya

maya wrote:
> Bob wrote:
>> Have you tried "copy and paste"?
>>
>> "maya" <maya778899@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:z9CdncFMnN3CGsDVnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I'm on windows ultimate.. I need to burn a DATA DVD.. for some reason
>>> this is proving a challenge.. you can't do it w/WMC, as it doesn't
>>> afford possibility of browsing to folders you want to burn..
>>>
>>> my roxio 10 isn't letting me do it either (when I go to "Data and
>>> Backup" I get to a window where under "Data Disc" it says, "Easily
>>> create and bun a data CD or DVD or save a disc image to your hard
>>> drive"... so I click on this "Data Disc" link, choose folder, click on
>>> yellow button at bottom right ("click this button to continue") but it
>>> just hangs.. nothing happens.. (and yes I do have a blank DVD loaded in
>>> the drive...)
>>>
>>> just downloaded a trial version of nero.. same thing, you can do all
>>> sorts of fancy stuff, like burn music DVD's, movies, video, do fancy
>>> menus, slideshows, etc.. but I want none of that, I just want to burn a
>>> bunch of JPG's to a DVD (A LOT of them actually, only reason need to
>>> burn them on a DVD instead of a regular data CD is that it's so many
>>> images that I would have to burn about four CD's to burn all the images
>>> I want to burn..)
>>>
>>> I just want a DATA DVD that when user inserts it in the machine they can
>>> browse the files... but this is proving a bit difficult, which is a
>>> bit strange, I mean this is a very simple thing.. how can I do this..
>>>
>>> thank you..
>>>
>>
>
> ok, after numerous attempts, I was able to drag one folder to the disk..
> now it says, on top of the folder: "files ready to be written to the
> disc.." so HOW do I write them?? i.e., how do I finalize the burning
> of the files? I'm just doing a test-burn now.. but eventually will need
> to burn about 1.4 GB of images to a read-only disk.. but before I do
> that need to make sure I can make this work.. HOW do I finalize the
> burning of the files to the DVD??

so I "finalized" by clicking on "burn to disk" in toolbar in folder (but
was suspicious, since "burn to disk" appears always in folder toolbar
when you're browsing a folder w/images.. so it took a long time, when
it was over it ejected the disk, then I put it back in, in another
drive, but when I browse the contents of the disk it still says "files
ready to be burned to disk", and there's a "shortcut" icon on the
folder, and on the files inside the folder..

I have tried everything, have yet to successfully burn a DATA DVD with
Vista..

thank you...

John Inzer

maya wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'm on windows ultimate.. I need to burn a DATA DVD.. for some reason
> this is proving a challenge.. you can't do it w/WMC, as it doesn't
> afford possibility of browsing to folders you want to burn..
>
> my roxio 10 isn't letting me do it either (when I go to "Data and
> Backup" I get to a window where under "Data Disc" it says, "Easily
> create and bun a data CD or DVD or save a disc image to your hard
> drive"... so I click on this "Data Disc" link, choose folder, click on
> yellow button at bottom right ("click this button to continue") but it
> just hangs.. nothing happens.. (and yes I do have a blank DVD loaded
> in the drive...)
>
> just downloaded a trial version of nero.. same thing, you can do all
> sorts of fancy stuff, like burn music DVD's, movies, video, do fancy
> menus, slideshows, etc.. but I want none of that, I just want to burn
> a bunch of JPG's to a DVD (A LOT of them actually, only reason need to
> burn them on a DVD instead of a regular data CD is that it's so many
> images that I would have to burn about four CD's to burn all the
> images I want to burn..)
>
> I just want a DATA DVD that when user inserts it in the machine they
> can browse the files... but this is proving a bit difficult, which
> is a bit strange, I mean this is a very simple thing.. how can I do
> this..
> thank you..
=================================
Maybe the following articles will offer some ideas:

Windows Vista -
Burn a CD or DVD in Windows Media Center
http://tinyurl.com/y94kac
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...289e01033.mspx

Windows Vista -
Burn pictures or videos to a CD or DVD
http://tinyurl.com/265r5k
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...9c6631033.mspx

Windows Vista -
Help and How To:
Windows DVD Maker
http://tinyurl.com/yusbhl
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...=&qu=dvd+maker


--

John Inzer

maya

John Inzer wrote:

> maya wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I'm on windows ultimate.. I need to burn a DATA DVD.. for some reason
>> this is proving a challenge.. you can't do it w/WMC, as it doesn't
>> afford possibility of browsing to folders you want to burn..
>>
>> my roxio 10 isn't letting me do it either (when I go to "Data and
>> Backup" I get to a window where under "Data Disc" it says, "Easily
>> create and bun a data CD or DVD or save a disc image to your hard
>> drive"... so I click on this "Data Disc" link, choose folder, click on
>> yellow button at bottom right ("click this button to continue") but it
>> just hangs.. nothing happens.. (and yes I do have a blank DVD loaded
>> in the drive...)
>>
>> just downloaded a trial version of nero.. same thing, you can do all
>> sorts of fancy stuff, like burn music DVD's, movies, video, do fancy
>> menus, slideshows, etc.. but I want none of that, I just want to burn
>> a bunch of JPG's to a DVD (A LOT of them actually, only reason need to
>> burn them on a DVD instead of a regular data CD is that it's so many
>> images that I would have to burn about four CD's to burn all the
>> images I want to burn..)
>>
>> I just want a DATA DVD that when user inserts it in the machine they
>> can browse the files... but this is proving a bit difficult, which
>> is a bit strange, I mean this is a very simple thing.. how can I do
>> this..
>> thank you..
> =================================
> Maybe the following articles will offer some ideas:
>
> Windows Vista -
> Burn a CD or DVD in Windows Media Center
> http://tinyurl.com/y94kac
> or...
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...289e01033.mspx
>
> Windows Vista -
> Burn pictures or videos to a CD or DVD
> http://tinyurl.com/265r5k
> or...
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...9c6631033.mspx
>
> Windows Vista -
> Help and How To:
> Windows DVD Maker
> http://tinyurl.com/yusbhl
> or...
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...=&qu=dvd+maker
>
>

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...9c6631033.mspx

but don't see the dialog when insert the blank DVD (even though now I
set it to "Burn files to disk using Windows"....

I also tried pasting
files into the blank DVD using Windows Explorer.. here's screenshot of
what happens after I paste the files:
http://www.mayacove.com/misc/ss_burn_dvd.gif

what do I do next to finalize the burning of the files to the DVD???

thank you...

maya

maya wrote:
>
> John Inzer wrote:
>
>> maya wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I'm on windows ultimate.. I need to burn a DATA DVD.. for some reason
>>> this is proving a challenge.. you can't do it w/WMC, as it doesn't
>>> afford possibility of browsing to folders you want to burn..
>>>
>>> my roxio 10 isn't letting me do it either (when I go to "Data and
>>> Backup" I get to a window where under "Data Disc" it says, "Easily
>>> create and bun a data CD or DVD or save a disc image to your hard
>>> drive"... so I click on this "Data Disc" link, choose folder, click on
>>> yellow button at bottom right ("click this button to continue") but it
>>> just hangs.. nothing happens.. (and yes I do have a blank DVD loaded
>>> in the drive...)
>>>
>>> just downloaded a trial version of nero.. same thing, you can do all
>>> sorts of fancy stuff, like burn music DVD's, movies, video, do fancy
>>> menus, slideshows, etc.. but I want none of that, I just want to burn
>>> a bunch of JPG's to a DVD (A LOT of them actually, only reason need to
>>> burn them on a DVD instead of a regular data CD is that it's so many
>>> images that I would have to burn about four CD's to burn all the
>>> images I want to burn..)
>>>
>>> I just want a DATA DVD that when user inserts it in the machine they
>>> can browse the files... but this is proving a bit difficult, which
>>> is a bit strange, I mean this is a very simple thing.. how can I do
>>> this..
>>> thank you..
>> =================================
>> Maybe the following articles will offer some ideas:
>>
>> Windows Vista -
>> Burn a CD or DVD in Windows Media Center
>> http://tinyurl.com/y94kac
>> or...
>> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...289e01033.mspx
>>
>>
>> Windows Vista -
>> Burn pictures or videos to a CD or DVD
>> http://tinyurl.com/265r5k
>> or...
>> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...9c6631033.mspx
>>
>>
>> Windows Vista -
>> Help and How To:
>> Windows DVD Maker
>> http://tinyurl.com/yusbhl
>> or...
>> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...=&qu=dvd+maker
>>
>>
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...9c6631033.mspx
>
>
> but don't see the dialog when insert the blank DVD (even though now I
> set it to "Burn files to disk using Windows"....
>
> I also tried pasting
> files into the blank DVD using Windows Explorer.. here's screenshot of
> what happens after I paste the files:
> http://www.mayacove.com/misc/ss_burn_dvd.gif
>
> what do I do next to finalize the burning of the files to the DVD???
>
> thank you...

as mentioned in an earlier post, this
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...289e01033.mspx
doesn't work for me, as you can't browse to files/folders you want to
burn.. it's frustrating, b/c there IS a "data DVD" choice, but when you
hit 'next' you get this:
http://www.mayacove.com/misc/ss_wmc.gif so: no way to BROWSE to
files/folders you want to burn..

so I put folder I want to burn in "pictures" folder (really stupid, you
SHOULD be able to browse to any location you want, THIS is the typical
M$ stuff that drives me nuts..)

so when I get to that folder, I can't just say, ok, burn this entire
folder.. no, the way it works is I click on the folder and it asks me to
choose the images one by one, this is no good for me.. what I'm doing
here is just for testing, what I actually have to do -- if I ever get
this to work -- is burn about 1.4 GB of imgs to a DVD, and they are
divided into numerous folders, so this thing in WMC where I have to
click on every file to burn doesn't work for me at all...

thank you..

John Inzer

maya wrote:
> as mentioned in an earlier post, this
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...289e01033.mspx
> doesn't work for me, snip<
=======================================
Okay...we're getting nowhere so far...

Maybe the following free software would be worth a try.

ImgBurn
http://tinyurl.com/yjgdu5
or...
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...n/1128426215/1

After you install ImgBurn...open the program
and click the "Write files / folders to disk" option...

Insert a DVD blank in your DVD burner.

Click the "Browse for a file" button and select
the folder you wish to include on the DVD.
If there is more than one folder...you'll have to
browse for each additional folder...it only adds
one at a time.

When you have all the files selected...click the
"Build" button at the bottom of the screen.

This should create a Data DVD for you...

Good luck.

--

John Inzer

N Brown

Are you sure your adding the files to burn? Just browsing and chosing a
folder may not work? I never use smart start in Nero I use Nero Burning
rom. Try that then you browse
on the right explorer window in Nero and drag and drop files you want to
burn to the left
window. Oh and remember to dvd ISO mode or UDF mode if any of the files are
bigger than 2gigs.

"maya" <maya778899@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:z9CdncFMnN3CGsDVnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
> hi,
>
> I'm on windows ultimate.. I need to burn a DATA DVD.. for some reason
> this is proving a challenge.. you can't do it w/WMC, as it doesn't
> afford possibility of browsing to folders you want to burn..
>
> my roxio 10 isn't letting me do it either (when I go to "Data and
> Backup" I get to a window where under "Data Disc" it says, "Easily
> create and bun a data CD or DVD or save a disc image to your hard
> drive"... so I click on this "Data Disc" link, choose folder, click on
> yellow button at bottom right ("click this button to continue") but it
> just hangs.. nothing happens.. (and yes I do have a blank DVD loaded in
> the drive...)
>
> just downloaded a trial version of nero.. same thing, you can do all
> sorts of fancy stuff, like burn music DVD's, movies, video, do fancy
> menus, slideshows, etc.. but I want none of that, I just want to burn a
> bunch of JPG's to a DVD (A LOT of them actually, only reason need to
> burn them on a DVD instead of a regular data CD is that it's so many
> images that I would have to burn about four CD's to burn all the images
> I want to burn..)
>
> I just want a DATA DVD that when user inserts it in the machine they can
> browse the files... but this is proving a bit difficult, which is a
> bit strange, I mean this is a very simple thing.. how can I do this..
>
> thank you..
>