I have just formated a RWCD and burnt a couple of files to it using Nero but I am unable to view these files with Windows Explorer

Finalizing a CD If you want your CDR/CDRW to be able to be read in any CD-Rom drive by any operating system, you will need to finalize the CD. (You will need to make this decision before you burn a CDR/CDRW) When using Nero Burning Rom to write to a CDR, it will automatically finalize each session. Most, but not all CD-Rom drives will be able to read it. To guarantee that it can be read anywhere, the CDR/CDRW must be finalized. This means that the CDR/CDRW can never be written to again, no matter how much free space it has left. * To finalize a CDR/CDRW, follow the steps below for the type of CD you want to create, but do not actually burn the CD. * When you select Write CD from the File menu, click Close Wizard. * In the Write CD window, click on the Burn tab. * Click Finalize CD. OR you can try the disk in a friend/family memebers system "One more repossesion and I'll be out of debt" ~Richard Carruth

I just formated a RWCD with Incd and then went to burn a file to it using Nero. I received a message saying the cd was not empty and that it could fix it for me. My cd burner is a LG and is 18 months old not sure if it can read RWCDs or not. When I tried to copy a file to RWCD I got a fixation error. Not having a lot of joy at all. Any ideas??

Why is it when I burn a file to a cd with Nero what was on the cd is nolonger there but when I use xp do burn the file I can still see what was previously on the cdr. I gave up on the CDRWs I think it has become faulty.

Why is it that Nero Burning ROM doesnt display the previous sessions but Nero Express does. This is not my favourite program. By the way is there a better program for burning CDs/DVDs.

By the way why is the multisession grayed out in Nero burning rom.

Firstly, CD buring is a "science" in it's own. There's a lot of things one should need to know about CD burning, CD formats, etc. Use Google to find some documents covering that and take some tome to read it. You mentioned using Nero and InCD. Those two tools don't really work the same way. Nero is just a regular CD burning program which you use when you want to burn a couple of (for example) files onto a CD-R/W and then usually fixate (close) the dics so it appears as a normal CD-ROM disc which can be read anywhere. Of course you could leave the disc unfixated if you intended to burn additinal files to it sometime later (you would need to select "New multisession" in Nero before you start burning). In this case only the currently written session is closed automatically by Nero and the CD itself is left open. This CD can still be read by most CD-ROM drives. If you decide to add files to the existing ones later you would just open Nero again, select "Continue multisession disc", drag in more files and burn. If you dont use the "Continue multisession disc" option then the old files in the first session will not be visible anymore. InCD is a packet writing software. It enables you to use your CD-RW disc as a floppy disc. You can insert the disc into your burner and copy the files to it like to a floppy using Windows Explorer or save files to it via Save As file menu from any Windows program, so Nero is not needed at all. But to use your CD-RW disc in such a way it needs to be "specially" formatted first. InCD format option will do that for tou but note that such a disc will appear smaller (on a 650 MB disc only about 502 MB will be available, on a 700 MB disc a few MB more). After you format the disc you can use it as a floppy as mentioned before, but if you want to read it on another computer you will have to install a special reader driver on that computer so that the CD-ROM driver there will be able to read this disc (InCD reader driver is one solution). InCD also supports Mt. Rainer format. If your burner supports Mt. Rainer then you can use InCD to format the disc in Mt. Rainier format to create a CD-MRW disc. This disc can then be read on other PCs wihout any driver installed, provided that their CD-ROM drive also supports Mt. Rainier. Otherwise you will still need a reader driver. Actuallt Mt. Rainier is currently still not a viable option because it's support it not yet built-in to Windows (next version of Windows Vista (Longhorn) will suport Mt. Rainier so you won't need InCD to burn CD-MRW discs). As I said, Mt. Rainier still has a long way to go before it becomes really useful. Hope that cleared some things up. PS.: Stick to Nero, it's a great program and can do anything you need correctly. It's you who has to know what you're doing. There's just no way around that. :-)