Making Data CDs to Use on Your Own Computer | 5-3 |
NOTE: If no screen appears after about 15 seconds, the disc may not be blank, or it may have an unreadable format. (See “Fixing an Unreadable Disc” on page 5-6 for more information.) Or the “Auto insert notification” option may be disabled (this applies to Windows 95 only). To check this, click Start, move the mouse pointer over Settings, and click Control Panel. In Control Panel, double-click System and select the Device Manager tab. Double-click the CD-Writer Plus icon, then select the Settings tab. Click Auto insert notification if it does not have a check mark next to it, and click OK. Click OK on the System Properties dialog box. Then close the Control Panel.
3.Select the first option: Click here to create a data CD that will be accessible through a drive letter, i.e. as you would use a floppy drive. The Format Disc screen appears. If you are formatting a CD-R disc, continue with the next step. If you are formatting a CD-RW disc, skip to step #5.
4.If you are formatting a CD-R disc, click Next on the Format Disc screen and skip to step #6.
5.If you are formatting a CD-RW disc, you can choose between two formatting options. To do this, click the Advanced button that appears on the Format Disc screen. When the next screen appears, select either Fast Format or Full Format and click OK.
We recommend that you select HP fast format, which lets you start writing to the CD-RW disc almost immediately while the disc is formatted in the background. A Full Format requires you to wait about an hour until the formatting is complete before you can write to the disc. Click the Help button for more information about the formatting options.
NOTE: Data is safe if you write it to the disc while HP fast format takes place in the background. HP fast format will NOT overwrite this data, because the data is written to sections of the disc that have already been formatted.
6.When the Name Your Disc screen appears, type a name for the disc and click Finish. Disc formatting begins.
When the DirectCD Disc Ready window appears, the formatting is complete.
NOTE: Formatted CD-RW discs have about 530 MB of available space, while formatted CD-R discs can store up to 618 MB of data.
7.Click OK.
The DirectCD disc is ready for you to write data to it.
