It
took 68 minutes to fill a 68-minute CD, and it produced more coasters than
Six Flags. Suffice it to say, things have improved, although after a few minutes
of trying to burn a disc in Vista, you??™d be hard pressed to tell.
I??™ll just come out and say it: the CD/DVD burning feature built into Windows
Vista just doesn??™t work. Sure, I??™ll get some bafflingly defensive emails
from a handful of readers, but if you can show me a CD-Rwith readable
data created by Windows Vista, I??™ll eat my hat.
In theory, it goes like this:
1. Open Windows Explorer.
2. Place a blank disc in your burner, and close the drawer.
3. Highlight your CD/DVD drive in the tree, and the Burn a Disc window
appears. Click Show formatting options to show the expanded window
in Figure 4-20.
Figure 4-20. Open this window each and every time you make a CD in Vista, or the disc
you make may not be readable
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4. Select the Mastered option and click Next to make the Burn a Disc window
go away.
Unless you??™re absolutely certain you??™re only going to be
using this disc on Vista PCs, don??™t ever use the Live File System.
Despite Microsoft??™s overly optimistic language here,
discs formatted with the ???Live??? filesystem (also known as
UDF) won??™t be readable on older PCs, Macs, or just about
anything else. And if you skip steps 3 and 4 here, and instead
just start dragging files onto your disc, Windows will use the
Live File System without asking.
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