kannie Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 I have a problem. I'm trying to copy some of our cds so that we can have a second copy in the car, but I can't get it to work! I can copy them onto the hard drive OK, but then can't transfer them onto the blank cds. The cds I've got are say 'cd-rw, 700mb, 80 min, x10' and they're by sony. Do I have the wrong CDs? Or is there some sort of protection on the CDs that prevents this? Or is my computer / drive broken? I also tried to make a copy of the Urban Chickens film on a DVD for my sister, and that didn't work either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 Nope You've lost me I was hoping that your thread would be a "how to" for us techno numpties I am sure there are some real geeks (sorry technological wizz kids) out there that can help you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel19 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 What exactly does your computer say when you try and burn the music to the CD's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 It converts all the tracks. Then it give me an error message and says 'cannot copy files to recordable disc'. It suggests I: 1 clean the disc & check its not damaged (done) 2 select a slower recording speed (I think I've done this) 3 try a different brand of cd-r or cd-rw disc (but I've just bought 10 sony ones & they dont work, and neither did the jvc dvd+r (should it have been '-' ?) - neither of them were cheap makes) 4 quit other programmes (done) Can you copy CDs rachel? do they do something to stop people pirating? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 (edited) I've copied music to and from CD (not DVD) and it's worked fine, but never had problems so not much help. RW means you can write to the CD multiple times, wipe it and start again R means you can only record once to it My Memorex CDs seem to be 1X-4X (not sure about that bit) and also 700mb which is the amount of space on the disc. I think the recording speed may be down to how good your computer is i.e. a better machine can burn discs faster. Does the disc have any files on it already? If it's not empty it may not work Edited July 1, 2006 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 No, its an empty disc. Maybe I should try copying some photos onto the cd and see if that works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura007 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 is it possible that the drive you are using doesnt copy?? try putting it in the other one ( if you have two that is ) we have to disc drives one is a copy thyp thing the other isnt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 No, I dont thing so. We have 2 drives too, and I'm using the one that says 'dvd writer & cd-writer'. The other one says 'dvd-rom'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 It didn't let me write the photos to cd either. It said 'there was an error in the writing process. The disc you have attempted to write may no longer be usable'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura007 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 try formatting the disc. i just thought of that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel19 Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 Hmmmmm I have had that problem before and found that lowering the speed at which you write the music to the disc helped. Other than that I really don't know..........sorry, hope someone else can help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
