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I'm showing my ignorance here, but since buying my T60P a couple of months ago I never had the occasion to burn any discs.

What kind of a DVD/CD player/writer do I have on my 2623 DDU and how would I burn my collection of wav files from my Olympus Digital Recorder onto a CD?

Thanks,

taichi

It should be a dvdrw drive, able to burn either CDs or DVDs.

You might want some software to help you do burning. I like Nero and and Windows 7 can burn very nicely. Next you need to decide if you want to burn CD's or DVD's. They both cost about the same. There are many ways to burn your audio files and others can make suggestions. XP, Vista and Windows 7 all allow you to just drag and drop them into your burner.

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks all for the good input.

Should I make a desktop short cut for the DVD/CD drive in order to drag-and-drop?

Ashampoo has a free burning program. Anybody have any experience with that program? And you say that it's possible to burn audio files with Vistas built-in application. Does that application burn DVDs as well?

taichi

I recommend official "MultiMedia Center for Think Offerings" for burning all types of discs in ThinkPad.

For Windows XP and 2000: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 66042.html

for Windows Vista: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 68589.html

Hey there, crazyfrog.

Are you in the UK or in Taiwan?

I downloaded the program you suggested from Lenovo. It's huge. What advantage does it have over other burning utilities and media centers? Does it have any particularly useful and unique features?

The advantage of Ashampoo, and the reason that I downloaded it, was that it permits the burning of the ISOs.

Thanks,

taichi

The MultiMedia Center for Think Offerings suite is an official offer from Lenovo to ThinkPad user (included in official recovery discs too). It is reliable (according my experience), free (on thinkpad only), and can certainly burn ISO files. Although there are many other choices, why not try something that is exclusively for ThinkPad first. As for it size, it is not a big deal for current large hard drive capacity.

I have a program I use that is quite small (6.28MB) but very effective for ISOs, transferring some files to DVD, and making whole copies of DVDs or CDs. Don't let the name of the program fool you it works fine for W7.

CDBurnerXP

Drag and drop supported also. Also allows a one-time burning session or multi-session burning.

My vote is for ImgBurn.

Crazyfrog:

My download for the Thinkpad CD/DVD is 279 MB (probably compressed)...I think it needs 500 MB of space. My Drive is the 100GB drive that came stock, which only has 93.1 GB capacity.

Is this utility also a media center? I'm just curious about what its features are. Given that it is for Thinkpads makes me think it might be optimal for my machine...it's just the size that concerns me.

taichi

Installed size is around 24 MB

Ted

That's astonishing. You're saying that a 279 MB download only installs a 24 MB
program! Could you explain to me how that is, as this is new information for me. I'd always assumed that an installer has some extra data on it to actually effectuate the installation, but this disparity in size is mind blowing!

Do you know, by the way, the features of this Lenovo utility that recommend its use?

Astonished in Los Angeles,
taichi