Hi! Thanks for answering. But DirectCD does format CD-R so you can treat them like normal floppy disks. Thank you again. Cesar Mendoza -----Mensaje original----- >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 > <[log in to unmask]> > > PCBUILD mailing list is brought to you by: > The NOSPIN Group > http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org > PCBUILD mailing list is brought to you by: The NOSPIN Group http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org