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Table Of Contents
- Roxio Easy CD Creator™ 5 Basic
- Contents
- Introduction
- Making Music CDs Using Easy CD Creator
- Making a Music CD
- Making Music CDs with a CD-Recorder Only
- Making a Compilation Music CD
- Tips for Making a Music CD
- Working with Tracks in the Music CD Project
- Playing a Track
- Viewing the Status Bar
- Viewing the CD Info Bar
- Saving and Opening a CD Project
- Accessing the Online Music Database on the Internet
- Advanced Music CD Topics
- Making Data CDs Using Easy CD Creator
- Making Data DVDs Using Easy CD Creator
- Making Data Discs Using DirectCD
- Making Enhanced CDs
- Making Mixed-Mode CDs
- Copying Discs Using Disc Copier
- Troubleshooting Easy CD Creator
- Index
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Making Data Discs Using DirectCD
remaining formatting is done in the background.
Background formatting takes up to 90 minutes to complete,
depending on the speed of the CD-Recorder and what other
work the computer is doing at the time. You can safely
interrupt fast formatting by ejecting the CD. When you
reinsert the CD into a CD-RW drive that does not support
fast format, you can read the CD, but you cannot write data
to it until formatting is complete. When you reinsert the CD
into a drive that supports fast format, the formatting
continues from where it left off and you can write data to
the CD.
■ Full Format: Full format takes about 60 minutes for a 2x
drive and about 15 minutes for an 8x drive. It verifies the
integrity of the CD surface, prepares the CD for data, and
writes the UDF file system to the CD.
■ Quick Format: If you have this option, Quick format takes
only a few minutes to format the CD.
7 Click Start Format. CD formatting begins and a progress
dialog box appears.
You can do other tasks on your computer while the CD is being
formatted. The CD Ready dialog box appears when complete.
8 Click OK. The CD is ready for you to write information to it.
See Copying Methods on page 59.