(CD-ROM Setup) FINAL BURNING WINDOW FROM CDROM BURNING WIZARD

This is the final screen in the CD/DVD burning process.

NOTE: Users ARE PERMITTED to burn Photo Jockey onto CDs that are given away. The reason is because, when Photo Jockey is run from a non registered machine, Photo Jockey is in non registered mode. So giving away Photo Jockey benefits both parties. Giving away your registration key is NOT PERMITTED.

NOTE: While you are in this screen, your CDROM's AUTO-PLAY feature will be turned off. This is so that as you are inserting disks to burn you don't wind up with a lot of programs popping up on the screen. This can happen if the disks you insert are NOT BLANK by mistake. Or if you want to add files to a disk that already has files on it. When you exit this window, the auto-play feature is turned back on again.

From this screen you can:

Select Burner: This allows you to select which CD burner you want to use if you have more than one burner. If you have only one burner, then this pull-down list will show only ONE item. NOTE: It will NOT show regular CD players, only burners.

BURN: This burns the actual files to your CD/DVD.

VERIFY CD FILES AFTER BURN: This is a cool option. It's used for AFTER-THE-FACT verifying. Let's say you want to burn a disk and then stick a label on it and then verify it AFTER you stuck the label on it to make sure you didn't screw up the disk with the label. Just stick the disk back into your drive and click the VERIFY button and it will do the verify process. Then you can be assured that the process of sticking the label on the CD didn't ruin it.

NOTE: When you apply a label, sometimes you need to RUB on it to get the air bubbles out. This can sometimes lift part of the metalized surface off the CD. Since the metalized top of the CD is what holds the data, then you have basically ruined your disk. So we recommend that if you put labels on CDs then do the verify after-the-fact.

ERASE: This ERASES a CD-RW or DVD-RW disk so that you can reuse it to store more files on it. After erasing, the disk is basically just like a blank disk.

NOTE: The entire disk is not truely erased, just the table of contents are erased so the erase process can complete in about 10 seconds. If the entire disk were erased, it would take 10 minutes.
WARNING: This means that if you had "secret" data on the disk and erased it, and then gave the disk to somebody, that person could (with the right tools) get your "secret" data off the disk.

CANCEL: This cancels the burning process in case you decide you don't want to continue burning. You can NOT cancel the erasing process.

EJECT: This ejects the disk and allows the CD drive to stop spinning.

CLOSE: This closes the CD ROM disk drawer.

HELP: This displays the help notes for this CDROM burning window.

EXIT: Closes this burning window.

COPIES: This allows you to burn up to 20 copies in case you want backups or other reasons.

VERIFY: Check this if you want to verify the files after the disk is burned to make sure that all the files burned on the CD/DVD were saved without errors. 95% of the time, you will notice that the files verify perfectly, but every once in awhile you will have a BAD DISK and it may not burn the data correctly. So we recommend to always verify.

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