Hewlett-Packard Official Recordable CD Handbook: Your Ultimate Guide to Buying, Using, and Troubleshooting Recordable CD Equipment No Matter the Brand You Choose [Paperback]

Mark L. Chambers (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764534742 | ISBN-13: 978-0764534744 | Publication Date: January 15, 2000 | Edition: 1

No matter what recordable CD hardware you own, this ultimate guide to using and troubleshooing your equipment shows you how to make the most of its capabilities. Most people use recordable CDs to back up and store huge data files, but you can also cut your own music CDs, make greeting cards, baby books, wedding albums, design family trees, archive important documents, and more! The Hewlett-Packard Official Recordable CD Handbook walks you through everything from choosing a system that suits your needs and recording your first CD to getting the most out of your investment.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

You can't beat a compact disc recorder, also known as a "CD burner," as an accessory for your home computer. With it, you can make backups of your data and software, transfer files among computers without a network, and compile music CDs containing all your favorite songs. In an office environment, you can take presentations on the road, make demo disks for customers, and lots more. Hewlett-Packard Official Recordable CD Handbook shows how to select a CD burner and use it to maximum effect. With remarkable brand neutrality, Mark Chambers explains how to configure a CD recorder, use the most popular software for controlling one, and put it to use in interesting home and office recording projects.

Chambers offers no-nonsense buying advice ("For most of us, 4x is fast enough"), straightforward hardware configuration instructions with lots of illustrations, conceptual information about how the CD-recording process works, and precise directions for using recording software. He's not stingy with procedures for you to follow, but you might value more highly his explanatory text. In that prose, Chambers offers facts and hints you can use to get your system out of any jam it might get into, and properly optimized once it's running. The projects described in these pages are cool, too: Chambers shows how to create a CD that contains resources for new employees, record a video CD (VCD), and combine music and video on a single disk. --David Wall

Topics covered: All aspects of installing, configuring, and using a CD recorder. With its emphasis on PCs running Microsoft Windows 9x, this book shows how to hook up a CD recorder and get it to work well. A large part of the how-to material deals with Adaptec Easy CD Creator, a popular software package for configuring and burning CDs. Specific instructions for various recording projects conclude this book.

From the Publisher

Prices for recordable CD hardware are falling, making this powerful tool available to more and more users.

Discover hundreds of helpful tips for choosing, setting up, recording, and troubleshooting your new CD-R or CD-RW hardware.

Explore some fun and creative uses for recordable CD, in addition to backing up your hard drive, through 7 different projects.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764534742
• ISBN-13: 978-0764534744
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,982,798 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mark L. Chambers is an author, tech editor, and unabashed Mac fan. He is the author of more than 30 computer books including Mac OS X Leopard All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies and AppleTV For Dummies.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Burners should buy this book, July 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Hewlett-Packard Official Recordable CD Handbook: Your Ultimate Guide to Buying, Using, and Troubleshooting Recordable CD Equipment No Matter the Brand You Choose (Paperback)

This is the best book on CD burning I've ever read! It covers everything. The text on Easy CD version 4 is great and even takes you through Direct CD. I like the author recommendations and his style, he knows his recording! Whether you are already burning your own CD-ROMS or looking for a burner to buy and how to use it you will enjoy this book.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How I learned to use my CD-RW Drive, July 20, 2000

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Robert A. Drafts (Beverly Hills, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hewlett-Packard Official Recordable CD Handbook: Your Ultimate Guide to Buying, Using, and Troubleshooting Recordable CD Equipment No Matter the Brand You Choose (Paperback)

I just finished reading Hewlett-Packard's OFFICIAL RECORDABLE CD HANDBOOK written by Mark L. Chambers. I received an HP CD-RW drive (8200i) and tried to learn how to operate it on my own. I promptly ruined 4 new R-W disks. After reading the HANDBOOK, I now have backed up all my files, my operating system and working on a family album. This book certainly improved my learning curve and allowed me to "get right to it" after only several hours of reading. My thanks to HP and Mr. Chambers for this helpful book.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Everything I needed, August 9, 2000

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Steve (St. Louis MO, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hewlett-Packard Official Recordable CD Handbook: Your Ultimate Guide to Buying, Using, and Troubleshooting Recordable CD Equipment No Matter the Brand You Choose (Paperback)

I give this book 4 stars. It has everything you need to know to install and record music CDS. I also learned more about making data CDS in this book than anything else I've read yet. A good pick.