Roxio Drag to Disk

Question

I'm using Roxio CD Creator Suite 7.5. I have the Drag to Disk Icon on my desktop along with one in the system tray next to the clock.

The problem I have is that at times when I try to use a rewritable CD-RW or DVD-RW to write data to, I get a message that I can't copy to disk due to disk being full. When I use Explore to check the disk to check for free space, I see a entry on the disk as follows NON Allocable space 0. I can cure this by rebooting my system and when I check the disk again I get the proper free space specs and I'm able to write to the disk.

Demension 8400

3.0 GHZ CPU
250 GB Sata ATA
Windows XP Service Pack 2
ATI PCI Express 300 video card
Dell DVD rom drive
Dell (Phillips) DVD+RW drive
1 GB DDR Ram
Sound Blaster Audiology Card
56K modem

I have the eject set to use the setting to make the disks readable in any drive. While I can correct being locked out of writing to disks that have free space on them by rebooting it is really a pain and I don't think that this should be necessary. Looking for a solution or someone to explain to me why this is happening.

fireberd · Answer

One possibility when using packet writing software (e.g. drag to disc) is that the built in Windows XP CD burning program can sometimes interfere. Try turning off the Windows XP CD burning software and see if that helps.

If not, post on the Roxio forum and you should get more specific help there. www.roxio.com since it is really a Roxio issue.

As a side note, CD-RW and packet/UDF programs are the most unreliable CD burning method. This has been noted many times on this forum section and in the CD/DVD section of the forum.

I have Roxio 7.5 (and Roxio finally got their act together with this version) but I never use the packet writing function.

Jim Hardin · Answer

I agree with fireberd that packet writing is the most unreliable form of burning ever devised!

For best results set your Advanced Eject Settings to "Leave the disc as is".

If the drive is not refreshing it is not a software issue but an indication of the need for a firmware update for the drive.

Nascar Nut72 · Answer

Thanks for the help. I have shut off the Drag to Disk feature and unchecked the call for it to run at boot by unchecking it in the startup using Msconfig. One question, by disabling it, will the disk that were written to using Drag to Disk still be usable and not cause me to lose the data on these disk?

Again, thanks for quick response....

Nascar Nut72 · Answer

I have the latest firmware update installed on the drive. Got this from Dell System Updates by using my service code. At the present time there is no new update. I will just not use drag to disk as I did have Drag to Disk set to leave this disk alone and the problem was still there. So far with Drag to Disk disabled I getting the proper reading on the drives contents and free space.

Windows General

Roxio Drag to Disk

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