#1 Burning Software

I downloaded StarBurn today and burned my first disk. It was track-at-once. I didn't see a way to tell it to finalize the disk, so I just burned it and later tried to read it from another machine. It would not recognize the disk. I put it back in the machine I burned it from and it would not read it, either. I started up SB on that machine again and figured I could finalize the disk, but I see no way to do that. I've looked through the help and don't see it and have search on "finalize" here and didn't find anything that helped. Perhaps I'm just missing it, but in other apps it's been a prominent thing ("finalize after burn" or some such terminology). Can someone please tell me how to finalize this disk (at present, I assuming that's the issue)?

Thanks,

Russell

Thanks, Andrey. I had actually turned on expert mode and gone back through the wizard and didn't see it, but I see now I had not gone far enough (I think I was a little worried about messing up the disk - I didn't want to have to burn it again - but maybe I was being overly cautious).

Anyway, is there just a way to finalize the disk now without putting anything else on it? I can just drop something else onto it and burn it with multisession unchecked, but would like to know if there is a way to finalize the disk without doing that.

Thanks again.

Ok, thanks. I believe that Nero and Roxio can finalize a disk without making you put anything else on it, so it would be nice if StarBurn could.

Well, I added some more folders to the disk and burned it. I thought I still had expert mode turned on - I don't remember turning it off - but it was not turned on and it just started burning the disk before I got to indicate that I didn't want a multisession disk. But it must retain that setting somehow, because it did seem to close the disk after burning. However, when I inserted it in another computer, it would only show the first folder I burned and not any of the others. I've really never understood multisession disks. I've had no desire to do anything other than burn a bunch of files and folders onto a CD or DVD and finalize it right then, so I just haven't paid much attention to what that's all about. So I ended up with a disk where I thought I'd be able to see all the folders I put on it, but I can only see the first folder I put on it. I'm not sure if I did a multisession disk before with Nero or Roxio, but I do know that I was able to finalize the disk without adding files and I was able to see all the files I put on it. Perhaps you can tell me why I can't see the files I burned onto the disk.

Ok, but you didn't answer my question. I got the disk finalized, but I can only see part of what was burned onto the disk. Why is that.

I think the problem might have been related to my question.

If the user shuts down StarBurn 12, it restarts with EXPERT MODE turned OFF. If you forget then forget to turn Expert Mode back ON, you have AGAIN burned more information to your disk without closing out the disk.

The fact that rcampbell12 finalized the disk but only sees part of the data means that he has installed multiple tracks instead of laying all the data on one track.

(In order to view disks on my TV player, the disk MUST be closed - no multi-session or multi-track.)

SO MY QUESTION IS - How can I permanently turn ON the EXPERT MODE?

Registry tweak or startup parameters would be great if there is NO easy way to do it. This is a MUST have for me.

It seems that with version 12 you have taken 2 steps forward and one step back. I love being able to figure out what files I want using the Micro$oft file manager and then dragging and dropping them into SB-12, that works great! Unfortunately this Expert/NonExpert mode thing is frustrating because I am forever forgetting NOT to turn it on!

It would be great if you had some kind of setup - configuration - preference option.
I really like your product(s) and have been using it since Feb 2007. (Which is my problem because I have not had to worry about Expert ON/OFF for the last 28 months
--Steve

This is a good idea and we'll do it. In the upcoming update. Thank you for your suggestion!