Chris, Unless nero is doing special things for you try using the open writable folder option xp presents when you insert a blank cd. I found nero is buggy when it comes to recognizing cd writer drives properly and screws up writing to cds because of it. I have been using this option for creating all my data cds now. Hope this helps, Rick -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 5:15 AM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: RE: PhotoShoot yup - xp Chris. http://www.chrisspages.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rick Kessler Sent: 21 January 2004 23:08 To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: RE: PhotoShoot Chris, What Operating System are you running? XP? Rick -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:25 PM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: PhotoShoot I took 50 images of paintings yesterday afternoon using a tripod, natural light through a roof window and my Olympus E20p. The resultant TIFF files were fine and they converted to much small jpeg files for my clients web page fine, but when I tried to use Nero to save the TIFF files to cd my computer crashed each time of the four times I tried. The computer finally executed a boot-up sequence that discovered and deleted a lost file and a corrupt index so it deleted image 42 and recovered. I do not know why this is happening and the deleted image file previously converted to a jpeg file previously so was not originally corrupt. My client has the jpeg files but to complete the deal I need to deliver the much larger TIFF files (I can take number 42 again quite easily) So how do I get Nero to save to CD? The 50 files fit on to two CD's being 15MB each. The first 25 have been saved to CD. Chris. http://www.chrisspages.co.uk