Easy CD Creator won't make a CD image file

I have a near-archaic version of Easy CD Creator (4.02e), which nicely
complements my four-year-old 8x Plextor drive (hey, gets the job done
when I need it!).

This is a Win98 system with about 1.2 gig of available HD space (yeah,
livin' on the edge, I know...).

I am about to make a CD of photos to pass out to several family
members who were at a recent wedding with me. So I'd like to make a
CD image on my HD, then create several CDs from that.

Two days ago, I made a CD image with no problem. Then another cousin
who had been traveling since the wedding sent several pictures, so I
added them to the CD layout, deleted the old CD image, and set out to
make a new one.

But this time, the software just sat there. From the menu, I picked
File Create CD Image and I got the dialog box asking me what I
wanted to call the file, but then nothing. My computer didn't lock
up; I could access Easy CD Creator, I could do anything I wanted to on
the computer. But the HD never spun, the status box that normally
comes up the moment you start creating a CD image never appeared,
nothing.

Figuring that maybe the memory was corrupted, I did a full Windows
restart and immediately launched the software. Same problem. It was
like telling a deaf dog to do calculus; it was like the software was
just staring blankly at me.

I have no viruses or malware affecting my system (ran NAV, Stinger,
Ad-aware, and Spybot, all currently updated, yesterday and came away
clean).

It's not an issue of disk space. The photos take up about 250 meg on
my computer, I'm burning to a 700 meg CD, and I have 1.2 gig free on
my hard drive.

And as I said, I was able to create a CD image two days ago with no
problem, on the same group of files, minus the 10 or so new photos
(maybe 6 meg of disk space).

1. Any suggestions of what's wrong and how to fix it?

2. Any suggestions of more current CD burning software, free,
easy-to-use, that will do better than Easy CD Creator 4.02e?

Question #1: Sorry, but I don't have an answer.

Question #2: IrfanView (freeware) will create customizable slideshows that can
be saved as standalone executables, screensavers, or burned to a CD-R/CD-RW disc
that will autorun and contain its own engine.

Here's a link:
http://www.irfanview.com/

Don't forget to download the plug-ins also.
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Eric McGillicudy

"spading traces" wrote in message
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I have a near-archaic version of Easy CD Creator (4.02e), which nicely
complements my four-year-old 8x Plextor drive (hey, gets the job done
when I need it!).

This is a Win98 system with about 1.2 gig of available HD space (yeah,
livin' on the edge, I know...).

I am about to make a CD of photos to pass out to several family
members who were at a recent wedding with me. So I'd like to make a
CD image on my HD, then create several CDs from that.

Two days ago, I made a CD image with no problem. Then another cousin
who had been traveling since the wedding sent several pictures, so I
added them to the CD layout, deleted the old CD image, and set out to
make a new one.

But this time, the software just sat there. From the menu, I picked
File Create CD Image and I got the dialog box asking me what I
wanted to call the file, but then nothing. My computer didn't lock
up; I could access Easy CD Creator, I could do anything I wanted to on
the computer. But the HD never spun, the status box that normally
comes up the moment you start creating a CD image never appeared,
nothing.

Figuring that maybe the memory was corrupted, I did a full Windows
restart and immediately launched the software. Same problem. It was
like telling a deaf dog to do calculus; it was like the software was
just staring blankly at me.

I have no viruses or malware affecting my system (ran NAV, Stinger,
Ad-aware, and Spybot, all currently updated, yesterday and came away
clean).

It's not an issue of disk space. The photos take up about 250 meg on
my computer, I'm burning to a 700 meg CD, and I have 1.2 gig free on
my hard drive.

And as I said, I was able to create a CD image two days ago with no
problem, on the same group of files, minus the 10 or so new photos
(maybe 6 meg of disk space).

1. Any suggestions of what's wrong and how to fix it?

2. Any suggestions of more current CD burning software, free,
easy-to-use, that will do better than Easy CD Creator 4.02e?

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:34:14 GMT, "Eric McG"
wrote:

Question #1: Sorry, but I don't have an answer.

Question #2: IrfanView (freeware) will create customizable slideshows that can
be saved as standalone executables, screensavers, or burned to a CD-R/CD-RW disc
that will autorun and contain its own engine.

Here's a link:
http://www.irfanview.com/

Don't forget to download the plug-ins also.

1. I never got an answer either, but I *did* recreate the CD layout,
save it to another file, and use that to generate a CD image
successfully. No idea why the other, perfectly good layout file
failed to generate a CD image.

2. IrfanView is GREAT! I already use it for a lot of my image viewing
and editing. How many images can this slideshow thing encompass?
I've got 400+ images covering about 250 megabytes of data.

2a. When I was asking for a recommendation for a free program, I
actually wanted something to replace Easy CD Creator 4.05e for burning
music or data CDs.

2a. When I was asking for a recommendation for a free program, I
actually wanted something to replace Easy CD Creator 4.05e for burning
music or data CDs.

Here are two which will do the trick.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4055.html
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

--
Parko
Registered Linux User #339345
And now for something completely different...

The slideshow would only be limited by the capacity of the CD.

Be sure to get the latest version (3.92) and its plugins.

---
Eric

"spading traces" wrote in message
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On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:34:14 GMT, "Eric McG"
wrote:

Question #1: Sorry, but I don't have an answer.

Question #2: IrfanView (freeware) will create customizable slideshows that
can
be saved as standalone executables, screensavers, or burned to a CD-R/CD-RW
disc
that will autorun and contain its own engine.

Here's a link:
http://www.irfanview.com/

Don't forget to download the plug-ins also.

1. I never got an answer either, but I *did* recreate the CD layout,
save it to another file, and use that to generate a CD image
successfully. No idea why the other, perfectly good layout file
failed to generate a CD image.

2. IrfanView is GREAT! I already use it for a lot of my image viewing
and editing. How many images can this slideshow thing encompass?
I've got 400+ images covering about 250 megabytes of data.

2a. When I was asking for a recommendation for a free program, I
actually wanted something to replace Easy CD Creator 4.05e for burning
music or data CDs.

"spading traces" wrote in message
news
2a. When I was asking for a recommendation for a free program, I
actually wanted something to replace Easy CD Creator 4.05e for burning
music or data CDs.

Why not simply use the free "plextools" software that can be downloaded from
Plextor's website? I have recently started using this and it works very
well for creating iso images of any type of project (data cd, audio cd, data
dvd) as well as burning those images to cdr/dvdr.

Parko wrote:
2a. When I was asking for a recommendation for a free program, I
actually wanted something to replace Easy CD Creator 4.05e for burning
music or data CDs.


Here are two which will do the trick.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4055.html
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Be extremely careful with cdburnerxp pro. I got it on my machine and the
rev I had left xp broken after uninstall. Took it all out manually.
I've had good luck with burn4free. I'll take a look at deepburner.
Dave Cohen

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:16:00 -0400, Dave Cohen
wrote:

Parko wrote:
2a. When I was asking for a recommendation for a free program, I
actually wanted something to replace Easy CD Creator 4.05e for burning
music or data CDs.


Here are two which will do the trick.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4055.html
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Be extremely careful with cdburnerxp pro. I got it on my machine and the
rev I had left xp broken after uninstall. Took it all out manually.
I've had good luck with burn4free. I'll take a look at deepburner.
Dave Cohen

I appreciate the suggestions. I looked on download.com for reviews of
these. Burn4free comes with spyware. Deepburner and cdburnerxp
sounded promising. Maybe my Roxio (actually Adaptec back then)
software wasn't so bad after all.