Well, I did say it was in the box a long time!  It was manufactured in
November 2000, an 8X8X32 CD-RW drive.  Just for the heck of it, I checked the
hard drive and it's virtually full.  My son's been busy.  I guess I have some
cleaning up to do.

William Closure

In a message dated 1/13/03 [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> I don't understand why your burning prog wants 730Mb of temp space. Are you
> trying to copy a CD?  In which case, what's the total size of the files on
> the CD?
>
> All I can think of is that you're running low on drive space.  Although
> folders are virtually open-ended and bottomless, they're still limited by
> the amount of free space on the hard drive.
>
> And your CDRW drive and software must be fairly old and limited in their
> available settings.
>
> Modern CDRW drives can record at more than 40x, and modern burning software
> is set up to handle that kind of speed.
>
> And although current software sports several different proprietary
> technologies like 'BurnProof', for recording direct from CD to CDR, I still
> think it's safer to copy to hard drive first, as your software has directed.
>
> Ian Porter
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Closure" Subject: [PCSOFT] Adaptec Easy CD Creator
>
> I have
> > installed a TEAC CD-W58E that has been sitting in it's box for a long time
> > and, on the first try, successfully copied a music CD that plays on my
> > computer AND CD player by using the CD Copier function of the included
> > Adaptec Easy CD Creator.
> >
> > Only one problem:  When I try to set the CD Recorder function to 8X (the
> > fastest burn speed), it requires me to copy to the hard drive first, with
> a
> > default location of c:\windows\TEMP .  However, after scanning the CD
> tracks,
> > it tells me "You need 728.6 MB of temp space to back up the track.  Your
> temp
> > directory has 279 of usable space. Please make more temp space available."
> >
> > How on earth do I increase the size of TEMP folder?  Or, alternatively,
> what
> > folder could I use that would be adequate size?  Or, must I be content to
> > writing CD's at 1X.  I just installed it and I want SPEED!
> >
> > Any wisdom out there?

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