Hi! Thanks for answering. But DirectCD does format CD-R so you can treat
them like normal floppy disks.
Thank you again.

Cesar Mendoza

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>Hi Cesar!
>
>> One week ago I bought a box of Recordable CDs (Maxell). 3 of them report
>> this error when I try to format them with DirectCD: Invalid Sesion Number
>> (0x04000047). I have also tried copying files to them with CDRWin
>> 3.7E, but it cannot be done (no error here, but no copy neither). What
>> is this 0x04000047 error?
>
>Tho I can't answer your question as to what the error means exactly, I do
>know
>one thing -- you don't need to format recordable CDs. The ones you have are
>CD-Rs, not CD-RW (which do need to be formatted before use I believe), so
>they're
>write once only, and will be formatted correctly by your recording software
>when
>you burn them. And the reason that CDRWin won't write to them is that when
>you
>formatted them, you basically trashed them for recording anything else; why
>CDRWin didn't spit an error at you is strange to me, but that's been a
>quirky
>little program for me, so it's not exactly surprising. Hope that helps!
>
> Sean Oelkers
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