I wish the person that designed this P.O.S. operating system spends the whole of eternity trying to burn CDs using Vista - now that is truly HELL

It's took me alllllllllllll morning and Vista still hasn't managed to burn a
single CD

1/ Vista goes through 20 minute ragmarole everytime i merely put disk in it

2/ After spending 15 minute copying the tracks i want to CD-RW - Vista
doesn't actually copy them and marks them 'to be copied' - despite the fact
that Vista *knows* how big the files are & also *knows* how much space is on
CD it does not let you know how much room you have left to fill - leaving me
to *guess*

3/ Not until you 'start' the copy process (which takes another hour after
it's asked about 200 questions about formats despite me only every using one
format method *ever* in my life) - only *then* does it realise you dont
have enough room - Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

4/ Even then the obvious answer is just to tell you, so you can maybe delete
some tracks (after *guessing* how many) then try again

5/ This P.O.S. makes the crazy assumption you will exchange the disc for one
which hold 22 terrabytes - jigs around for 40 minutes before it ejects the
correct disc

So now you have to start alllllllllllllllll over

I wish the person that designed this POS operating system spends the whole
of eternity trying to burn CDs using Vista - now that is truly HELL


Update: The CD-RW has just been belched out again by Vista so as far as
burning CD - i've given up - my life will never be long enough to have the
time to do it

Go to linux then....see you back here in two days asking how to fix this
mess using windows.


"JethroUK©" <> wrote in message
news:...
> It's took me alllllllllllll morning and Vista still hasn't managed to burn
> a single CD
>
> 1/ Vista goes through 20 minute ragmarole everytime i merely put disk in
> it
>
> 2/ After spending 15 minute copying the tracks i want to CD-RW - Vista
> doesn't actually copy them and marks them 'to be copied' - despite the
> fact that Vista *knows* how big the files are & also *knows* how much
> space is on CD it does not let you know how much room you have left to
> fill - leaving me to *guess*
>
> 3/ Not until you 'start' the copy process (which takes another hour after
> it's asked about 200 questions about formats despite me only every using
> one format method *ever* in my life) - only *then* does it realise you
> dont have enough room - Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>
> 4/ Even then the obvious answer is just to tell you, so you can maybe
> delete some tracks (after *guessing* how many) then try again
>
> 5/ This P.O.S. makes the crazy assumption you will exchange the disc for
> one which hold 22 terrabytes - jigs around for 40 minutes before it ejects
> the correct disc
>
> So now you have to start alllllllllllllllll over
>
> I wish the person that designed this POS operating system spends the whole
> of eternity trying to burn CDs using Vista - now that is truly HELL
>
>
> Update: The CD-RW has just been belched out again by Vista so as far as
> burning CD - i've given up - my life will never be long enough to have the
> time to do it

"JethroUK©" <> wrote in message
news:...
> It's took me alllllllllllll morning and Vista still hasn't managed to burn
> a single CD
>
> 1/ Vista goes through 20 minute ragmarole everytime i merely put disk in
> it
>
> 2/ After spending 15 minute copying the tracks i want to CD-RW - Vista
> doesn't actually copy them and marks them 'to be copied' - despite the
> fact that Vista *knows* how big the files are & also *knows* how much
> space is on CD it does not let you know how much room you have left to
> fill - leaving me to *guess*
>
> 3/ Not until you 'start' the copy process (which takes another hour after
> it's asked about 200 questions about formats despite me only every using
> one format method *ever* in my life) - only *then* does it realise you
> dont have enough room - Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>
> 4/ Even then the obvious answer is just to tell you, so you can maybe
> delete some tracks (after *guessing* how many) then try again
>
> 5/ This P.O.S. makes the crazy assumption you will exchange the disc for
> one which hold 22 terrabytes - jigs around for 40 minutes before it ejects
> the correct disc
>
> So now you have to start alllllllllllllllll over
>
> I wish the person that designed this POS operating system spends the whole
> of eternity trying to burn CDs using Vista - now that is truly HELL
>
>
> Update: The CD-RW has just been belched out again by Vista so as far as
> burning CD - i've given up - my life will never be long enough to have the
> time to do it

Plonk.

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"JethroUK©" <> wrote in message
news:...
> It's took me alllllllllllll morning and Vista still hasn't managed to burn
> a single CD
>
> 1/ Vista goes through 20 minute ragmarole everytime i merely put disk in
> it
>
> 2/ After spending 15 minute copying the tracks i want to CD-RW - Vista
> doesn't actually copy them and marks them 'to be copied' - despite the
> fact that Vista *knows* how big the files are & also *knows* how much
> space is on CD it does not let you know how much room you have left to
> fill - leaving me to *guess*
>
> 3/ Not until you 'start' the copy process (which takes another hour after
> it's asked about 200 questions about formats despite me only every using
> one format method *ever* in my life) - only *then* does it realise you
> dont have enough room - Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>
> 4/ Even then the obvious answer is just to tell you, so you can maybe
> delete some tracks (after *guessing* how many) then try again
>
> 5/ This P.O.S. makes the crazy assumption you will exchange the disc for
> one which hold 22 terrabytes - jigs around for 40 minutes before it ejects
> the correct disc
>
> So now you have to start alllllllllllllllll over
>
> I wish the person that designed this POS operating system spends the whole
> of eternity trying to burn CDs using Vista - now that is truly HELL
>
>
> Update: The CD-RW has just been belched out again by Vista so as far as
> burning CD - i've given up - my life will never be long enough to have the
> time to do it

JethroUK© wrote:
> It's took me alllllllllllll morning and Vista still hasn't managed to
> burn a single CD
>
> 1/ Vista goes through 20 minute ragmarole everytime i merely put disk in it
>
> 2/ After spending 15 minute copying the tracks i want to CD-RW - Vista
> doesn't actually copy them and marks them 'to be copied' - despite the
> fact that Vista *knows* how big the files are & also *knows* how much
> space is on CD it does not let you know how much room you have left to
> fill - leaving me to *guess*
>
> 3/ Not until you 'start' the copy process (which takes another hour
> after it's asked about 200 questions about formats despite me only every
> using one format method *ever* in my life) - only *then* does it
> realise you dont have enough room - Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>
> 4/ Even then the obvious answer is just to tell you, so you can maybe
> delete some tracks (after *guessing* how many) then try again
>
> 5/ This P.O.S. makes the crazy assumption you will exchange the disc for
> one which hold 22 terrabytes - jigs around for 40 minutes before it
> ejects the correct disc
>
> So now you have to start alllllllllllllllll over
>
> I wish the person that designed this POS operating system spends the
> whole of eternity trying to burn CDs using Vista - now that is truly HELL
>
>
> Update: The CD-RW has just been belched out again by Vista so as far as
> burning CD - i've given up - my life will never be long enough to have
> the time to do it
Try this program. I use it, it works.
http://cdburnerxp.se/

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Richard Urban wrote:
> Look at BurnAware FREE edition at
> http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html
>

I'll have a look at that Richard, thanks, I think there may be a problem
with my CD / DVD but have had similar problems to Jethro recently so if
that SW works for you then I can confirm my problem