CD writer wizard fails to start

This problem just started after having worked flawlessly for 6 months. I
attempt to perform a save data backup, the items write to the temporary burn
folder, but the icon to start writing doesn't pop up. Going into my
computer, and double clicking the D drive gives an error message (can't write
to disc) instead of showing me the temp folder. I can't even find the
location of the temp folder on the C drive. I've used the restore wizard to
no avail. The hardware works. I can write if I manually do so with SONIC,
but it's convenient to have the automated wizard function for simple file
backups. Thus, 2 questions:
1: Where are the temp files on the C drive?
2: Any idea why the wizard just suddenly failed and what to do about it?

Thanks

Hi

Please see if the following article helps you:

"Burning CDs in Windows XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php

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"gary" <gary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8A002AD4-D8BD-44F8-A26F-D2FA8BE47388@microsoft.com...
> This problem just started after having worked flawlessly for 6 months. I
> attempt to perform a save data backup, the items write to the temporary
> burn
> folder, but the icon to start writing doesn't pop up. Going into my
> computer, and double clicking the D drive gives an error message (can't
> write
> to disc) instead of showing me the temp folder. I can't even find the
> location of the temp folder on the C drive. I've used the restore wizard
> to
> no avail. The hardware works. I can write if I manually do so with
> SONIC,
> but it's convenient to have the automated wizard function for simple file
> backups. Thus, 2 questions:
> 1: Where are the temp files on the C drive?
> 2: Any idea why the wizard just suddenly failed and what to do about it?
>
> Thanks

Thanks, Will. That at explains why it happened, annoying nonetheless. It's
odd it happened all of a sudden, without me doing anything differently than
before. I have a Dell PC, and both Sonic and the XP CD Write Wizard came
with the preloaded system and both worked before without disabling one or the
other. Oh well, I'll just stick with Sonic I geuss. It works. Any better
freeware CD write software?

"Will Denny" wrote:

> Hi
>
> Please see if the following article helps you:
>
> "Burning CDs in Windows XP"
> http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php
>
> --
>
>
> Will Denny
> MS MVP Windows Shell/User
> Please reply to the News Groups
>
> "gary" <gary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8A002AD4-D8BD-44F8-A26F-D2FA8BE47388@microsoft.com...
> > This problem just started after having worked flawlessly for 6 months. I
> > attempt to perform a save data backup, the items write to the temporary
> > burn
> > folder, but the icon to start writing doesn't pop up. Going into my
> > computer, and double clicking the D drive gives an error message (can't
> > write
> > to disc) instead of showing me the temp folder. I can't even find the
> > location of the temp folder on the C drive. I've used the restore wizard
> > to
> > no avail. The hardware works. I can write if I manually do so with
> > SONIC,
> > but it's convenient to have the automated wizard function for simple file
> > backups. Thus, 2 questions:
> > 1: Where are the temp files on the C drive?
> > 2: Any idea why the wizard just suddenly failed and what to do about it?
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
>