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Starting DirectCD

■Disseminating information to field offices

■Transferring and distributing data to other Windows 95 systems

Starting DirectCD

To start DirectCD so you can begin writing data to your CD:

■Double-click the CD-RW drive icon on the right side of the taskbar.

The DirectCD Wizard appears and guides you step-by-step to prepare the CD so you can write data directly to it.

Writing Data to a CD the First Time

Before you can write data directly to your CD, you must first format the CD. To do so, follow these steps:

1.Insert a blank CD into your CD-RW drive.

2.Double-click the CD-RW drive icon on the taskbar.

The Adaptec DirectCD Wizard window appears.

3.Click Next.

4.If you have more than one CD-R or CD-RW drive, select the CD-R drive containing the blank CD and click Next.

5.In the Format Disc window, select the option that says:

I will be using DirectCD to read and write the CD through thedrive letter associated with the CD-R drive.

NOTE: Formatting a blank CD-RW disc may take approximately one hour. Formatting a CD-RW disc also requires additional space on the disc (up to 100 MB or more). Thus, CD-RW discs have less than 500 MB of available space while CD-R discs can store over 600 MB of data.

6.Click Next to continue.

7.Type in the name you want to call your CD in the Volume Information window and click Finish.