why does it do this? CD BURNER NOT READ CD

[Terminator2000]

When you're burning a CD as multisession.

and you want to add things later. so you burn things on it and then you want to burn something else on it..but eventually the items on the cd doesn't show up on the burning program.

why does it do this?

first few times, it works and then it stops reading the shit on the cd. And there's more space. It shows alot more space, more than half. I don't want to start burning my items on a new cd. I want to put it all on 1 CD so i keep it organized.

What....the.....hell.

Does this happen to anyone else?

It already happened several times. A whole bunch of files had to burned on several disks, when i could've fit it all one one CD.

and its messy and not organized that way.

what if i lose one CD. I make copies of one CD. keep it all on 1 CD, with backups.

These are important files. They are work files. they cannot be lost.

 

[Papi Chulo]

Can't you just burn them onto a DVD?

 

[Terminator2000]

thats what I did.

I burnt it all on DVD because CD's the thing of yesterday.

Now its better to just burn things on DVD because there's more space on a DVD.

CD's are obsolete.

But still, the same problem.

Things don't appear on the DVD when I try to add things to burn on a multisession DVD.

 

[cypherpunk]

Things don't appear on the DVD when I try to add things to burn on a multisession DVD.

There's really no such thing as a multisession DVD, believe it or not. If you update your optical drive's firmware, you should be able to see all of the contents. If the drive came installed from your computer manufacturer, they probably have an update for it. Just be sure to read any and all warnings with any firmware update.

 

[Papi Chulo]

What operating system??


Try a DVDRW

 

[Gentle Ben]

With an older version of Nero I used to do multi session cds all the time, I cant do them at all with the new Nero, and I cant install the old Nero because it was OEM & wont recognize my new drives.

 

[thirdtime]

You can multi-session with CDs without any problem.
I keep hearing it's not recommended to try the same with DVD-R\+R and keeping the session open. Probably because of the problems you're experiencing.

As Papi Chulo suggests, try a DVD-RW.

 

[Terminator2000]

Well my family member has Windows Vista.

It doesn't show the files on the burning program.

and I have Windows Professional XP.

It doesn't show the files on the burning program.

I'll try the DVD-RW and see what happens.

 

[toughb]

I also have Nero and...

With an older version of Nero I used to do multi session cds all the time, I cant do them at all with the new Nero, and I cant install the old Nero because it was OEM & wont recognize my new drives.

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Mine warns me that the problem mentioned here is a prevalent one.

 

[Whisperwolf]

The answer to your question is that each session is treated as a different entity, more a bug in the way these things work than the programs that write the data.

Each session will rewrite the directory track with its own data. This will mean the last directory track is the one a normal CD drive will read, and the previous data will seem to have vanished.

Is there a way around it? Yes. When you go to add a session to a disk, look in your authoring package for a way to import previous sessions. What this does is add the directory data from previous sessions to the new session, thereby making the previous data accessible as well as the new data you write in the new session.

Finally, remember to "close" or finalise the disk completely if you want to use it in a non CDRW drive. Again, see the documentation for your burner authoring program to find out how to do this.

 

[thirdtime]

The answer to your question is that each session is treated as a different entity, more a bug in the way these things work than the programs that write the data.

Each session will rewrite the directory track with its own data. This will mean the last directory track is the one a normal CD drive will read, and the previous data will seem to have vanished.

Is there a way around it? Yes. When you go to add a session to a disk, look in your authoring package for a way to import previous sessions. What this does is add the directory data from previous sessions to the new session, thereby making the previous data accessible as well as the new data you write in the new session.

Finally, remember to "close" or finalise the disk completely if you want to use it in a non CDRW drive. Again, see the documentation for your burner authoring program to find out how to do this.

That's all fine and dandy for CDs, but we're talking multisession DVDs here which rarely show anything burned after the first session.

 

[Whisperwolf]

The same applies. In Nero 7, for example, starting Nero Burning Rom, selecting "Continue Mulitsession DVD" and checking "Refresh compliation when importing session" and "add new files to compilation" works fine.

You have GOT to do it every time, though. Say you make a session, then you make another session and import the first session, then you make a third session but forget to import the second (and by doing so, the first) session, you'll lose everything from BOTH preceding sessions.

I make multisession DVDs frequently in Nero 7, and have had no problems so long as I make sure I import previous sessions. Doesn't matter if it's a CD or a DVD the process, and the results, are very much the same.