Quote: "Put a blank disc in, go to My Computer, and double click the drive that the disc is in. It'll bring up a window mentioning 'preparing' a disc. I didn't realise that for recordable discs this will render them useless. You just kind of assume the system knows what its doing."
:/ Wtf, vista asks you if you want to prepare it or not. It doesn't know what you want to do.
Don't prepare it for burning. Copy your files to disc, burn it, it asks you what speed, set it, and goes. I'm happy I can use the built in burner than installing a 3rd party app. Additionally, there's a power toy thing that allows you to burn ISOs as well that works the same way.
Here.
Sure beats XPs built in recorder!
As for it rendering useless, it should still work in your pc, I'm surprised it doesnt. But I don't use that option anyway, since I generally want my cds to work away from the computer
That said, I do have a gripe regarding music cds. You can't set the timing in between tracks. So if you have some mp3s or a cd that you want to copy that should have no space between tracks, you're out of luck.
It's not just for BYOND you know!
