On 11/29/05, Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I could have sworn that if you stick a blank disc into a computer--any
> computer--you should get a dialog asking how you want to format it--and
> I also coulda sworn that on a Mac you can format a blank disc and then
> copy onto it later. So what's going on here and what do I do about it?

That's how it worked with floppies, but not with CDs. CD-R media can
only be written to once-- formatting, data, and all. The exception to
this is packet-writing software which allows you to mount the CD as a
writable drive and add info bit by bit, but I haven't seen any
software of this kind available for the Mac.

> And BTW, I want to come out of this with a windows-readable disc.

CD-Rs are burned with CDFS, which is a file system readable by both
Windows and Macintosh.

In any case, it sounds to me like you've got a defective CD. Try
putting a different blank disc into your wife's machine and see if
that works.

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