>greetings all --
>
>anybody know of an OCX or a DLL available that i can use to format CD ?
>want to just format it and be able to supply volume label, and leave it open for write later. or is this possible with windows API ?
>
>thanks,
>patrick

CDR (CD-Recordables) are not formated. When they are burned the burner program creates the files system "on-fly". You may achieve this you want creating multisession disk and storing only volume information. But is it worth to loose about 15MB of CDR space just for a label in it?!
See: http://www.maneurope.com/doc06.htm for more info.

However CD-RW (CD-ReWriteables) ARE "formated" (the correct term is "blanked"). On a CDRW you can also create volume information label. But I am not sure whether this is your case.

Anyway, in both cases storing label information will end-up wasting precious space on your CDR/CDRW disk. And... I will not do it this way.

However - for CDBurning components you may check
http://www.burnarchive.de/ (in german - use http://world.altavista.com for translation)
http://downloads.zdnet.co.uk/downloads/detail/1002-2070-8279358.html
(Check all downloaded files for viruses - just tomakeit sure you donot have additional "features" in the downloaded software)

As last words: I will suggest that you use AHead Nero Burning ROM (http://www.nero.com/en/index.html) for burning CDs and do not bother to dothat from your own application.

Kind regards