LightScribe

[TillysWilly]

Ok I just downloaded LightScribe on my Windows 7 32bit and everytime I put a disk in upside down for it to work the disk just keeps spinning like its trying to read it over and over and thats all it will do. How do I get it to stop this so I can use this program?

 

[Hopalong X]

Here is the lightscribe tutorial from their web site.

LightScribe - Getting Started

Detailed how to for software.
http://www.lightscribe.com/gettingstarted/index.aspx?id=683
http://www.lightscribe.com/gettingstarted/index.aspx?id=1670

CD/DVD's have to be lightscribe capable.
I haven't tried using mine yet.

Hope that may help.

Mike

 

[TillysWilly]

ok yea figures mine aren't light-scribe capable so im thinking thats my problem why....thanx for the quick reply

 

[Airbot]

Not only do the CD/DVD's have to be LightScribe capable, but the CD/DVD burner/writer itself has to be capable of it also.

 

[TillysWilly]

yea it is capable i use to use it about 3 years ago when i had xp but just thought about it a little while ago and re downloaded it and forgot all about the disk

 

[DeaconFrost]

There's several parts to making sure you have the ability to write the labels. Some have been mentioned, but they are:

1. A lightscribe drive
2. A lightscribe disc
3. The lightscribe drivers loaded
4. A lightscribe enabled app to create and burn the labels.

 

[Hopalong X]

I didn't know the CD/DVD's were special until I went searching while ago.

I would have been cussing up a blue streak my first try with it if I hadn't went searching and reading.

I have everything else just not the need to make them.
Mike

 

[profdlp]

...I have everything else just not the need to make them...

Same here. It would have to be pretty special to spend five minutes burning the disc and a half-hour to lightscribe it.

 

[DeaconFrost]

I only do them for important discs that go into cases on my shelves...not for any regular, everyday disc.

 

[Hopalong X]

A half an hour to Scribe?

My special Sharpie CD marker scribes then in about 10 seconds when I have a lot of words to right. LOL

Mike

 

[DeaconFrost]

It takes about 22 minutes, which is a lot of time...far longer than the time to burn the data, but I prefer the look of the discs as opposed to a sharpie. I do use sharpies, probably 9 out of 10 times I burn a disc, but for my real, official discs, like software I download from TechNet, I use a Lightscribe disc.

 

[profdlp]

... for my real, official discs, like software I download from TechNet, I use a Lightscribe disc.

No argument here. If it has more permanence than something like the second beta of Win 7 I'll use them. They're nice when you send a disc as a gift, too, such as a home movie compilation.

 

[DeaconFrost]

Exactly, I have my wedding videos, shower videos, and all our photos from the related events in a safe, all with nice, Lightscribed labels.