Re: Cannot Complete the CD Writing Wizard

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Thanks for replying! I have done a disk cleanup and there is nothing left to
clean-up on C:\. I don't see how defragmenting would make more space, only
increase performance, if at all.

I can write a CD if there is about as much space on the C:\ drive as the CD
I'm burning. I'm low on space on C:\ and would prefer to burn CD's using
only my D:\ drive, which is far roomier (I don't want to waste 1GB on C:\ and
another 2GB on D:\ just for a CD burn).

This is why this problem is so strange because I chose to create the image
on D:\. Why is Windows using C:\ for this too? It seems like a waste to tie
up both drives' space. How can I force Windows to prepare the image on D:\
exclusively? Can I change something else or move 'C:\Windows\Temp'?

"Unknown" wrote:

Have you done a disk cleanup and defrag before attempting this? Can you
temporarily delete something on the C drive as a test case?
"Skippybox" <Skippybox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:256E038A-7CFB-4302-8683-D1DF850D76CD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My problem is still unresolved, so I am hoping someone might have some
insight on this:

I am trying to write 695MB to a 701MB CD-RW using the CD Writing
Wizard. I have the D:\ drive selected as the place to have Windows store
an
"image" of the CD to be written. My D:\ drive has about 5.99GB of free
space
and my C:\ drive has about 599MB of free space. So, according to my
configuration I would figure I could write the CD-RW under these
conditions.

However, when I attempt to write the CD-RW, the wizard proceeds to prepare
the image, but my free space on C:\ whittles down to almost nothing and
D:\
remains unchanged. Eventually, I get the error: Cannot Complete the CD
Writing Wizard --- Disk D:\ does not have enough space to create temporary
files for the writing process.

Someone suggested changing my "temp" and "tmp" variables because the image
could be being put together there (C:\) before being copied to D:\.
However,
I changed those and it didn't make a difference.

I tried looking around for another place on C:\ that could be problematic,
and I located a file in C:\WINDOWS\Temp called '18era6ad.TMP', which
happened
to appear only when the wizard was running. The file grows slowly to
about
572MB, so it must be it. However, even with hidden files and folders
visible, the file isn't. I could only 'see' it through my back-up
program,
so it must be super hidden.

So what should I do now to resolve the error? Thank-you!
.

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