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by jimmy

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Data and Music CD's Desperate
I have recently purchased a Toshiba TecraM1 with a DVD/CDRW drive.
The system came pre-installed with data and music copying Software called Drag and drop. It also had Windows Media Player9 installed.

When i have tried to copy data from the HD to a CDRW disk it works fine but when i try to add Music to the same CD it says please load CD serial number 12-123-12 or something along those lines. (The CD i want to copy from is a Robbie Williams CD, don't know if it is copywritten)

Question 1 -What i need to know is if it is possible to have both music and data on the same CDRW disk using the Drag and Drop Software and if so how do i achieve this?

The way i am copying is like this:
Placing in data CD and simply dragging the files i want to copy to the CDRW disk > Then press copy > It then copies the data to the CDRW disk.

I then insert my Music CD into the CD/DVD combo drive and it open Media Player9.
I close Media payer and open Drag and drop and then select the Music files i want to copy. > at this stage it says loading. An indicator bar activates and when it has loaded i again press copy but this is the stage it asks for disk
12-123-12. I then place the CDRW with my data files on it into the combo Dirve and try to copy to this CD but it just doesn't copy.

Anyone got any ideas as to why?

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by otl

You can not copy music (.CDA) files to a data disk, the CD must be formated for music not data. You can copy MP3 files to a data disk, however these will not play in most CD players.

by grbeckmeyer

I thought I had read this somewhere, but I cannot find any reference to it now. Still, it my be worth a shot...I believe you can write data and audio to the same CD, but you must record the audio 1st, then the data. This is probably dependent on the application you're using to burn, you might need to check the options to see if the disc can be left 'open' after burning your music. Like I said, I'm not positive on this, but it's worth a shot.

by duster52

First question: If you copy just data to a CDRW. Does it work? Can you access the data on a different computer?

Second question: Can you copy just music to the CDRW? And does that work?

Third question: Does this happen with other music CDs?

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