Best Program to write directly to CD-RW (e.g. via Windows Commander)
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For the search utility what you type in needs to match what other people have posted, and for that purpose you need to know terminology. Up to some minutes ago I didn't even know the term "packet driver" .. 
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Anyway, thanks for the hints, now I will definitely not use the CD-RW for storing important data - it's just that it has been sitting here for a couple of weeks, and that my burner also writes to CD-RW, so ..
I just installed the newest version of InCD into my XP installation and will see how it works for me. And to appease you: I will definitely NOT start any "how to recover my data" posting as I will merely use this CD-RW for interrim storage.
.Anyway, thanks for the hints, now I will definitely not use the CD-RW for storing important data - it's just that it has been sitting here for a couple of weeks, and that my burner also writes to CD-RW, so ..
I just installed the newest version of InCD into my XP installation and will see how it works for me. And to appease you: I will definitely NOT start any "how to recover my data" posting as I will merely use this CD-RW for interrim storage.
I agree
I agree with these guys about packet writing.
It was a good idea before CDRW came along
I used to use DirectCD (was Adaptec now Roxio) Version 5 is out now and seems to work well (but again, I don't 'trust' it)
I've packet written about 3 CD's over the last 6 years and one of them failed after about the 3rd session of writing. That was my 1st and last failure. Never used it again.
Now keep in mind that CD's back then were about Aus$16.00 (US$32.00) a CD. To lose one hurt, not to mention the Data!!!!
Strange thing is, when I installed EZCD 5, I installed Direct CD.
Have I used it? No.
Have I uninstalled it? No.
Am I slack? YES!
Have fun!
I agree with these guys about packet writing.
It was a good idea before CDRW came along
I used to use DirectCD (was Adaptec now Roxio) Version 5 is out now and seems to work well (but again, I don't 'trust' it)
I've packet written about 3 CD's over the last 6 years and one of them failed after about the 3rd session of writing. That was my 1st and last failure. Never used it again.
Now keep in mind that CD's back then were about Aus$16.00 (US$32.00) a CD. To lose one hurt, not to mention the Data!!!!
Strange thing is, when I installed EZCD 5, I installed Direct CD.
Have I used it? No.
Have I uninstalled it? No.
Am I slack? YES!
Have fun!
Nero burning software
Hi All,
Nero Burning software is simpliest and easy software , and I use this most the time I burn but one thing I don't like NERO can't support NORMALIZING from MP3 to CDA format.
IS there anybody know the software have a Normalizing method? (ROXIO) i don't like it.
cheers,
sev.
Hi All,
Nero Burning software is simpliest and easy software , and I use this most the time I burn but one thing I don't like NERO can't support NORMALIZING from MP3 to CDA format.
IS there anybody know the software have a Normalizing method? (ROXIO) i don't like it.
cheers,
sev.
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rlb245
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Here's one
A not so smart nubie gets a CDR burner misumi noless some years back and dosn't no any better and uses EasyCDCrapeater and it's packet writer for about 3mounth for all his down loads
and backup it was a thing of beauty he thought untill the day came he needed some of the data on thous CDRs
I still shiver when I remember that day I throw out about 35 to 40 disks
A not so smart nubie gets a CDR burner misumi noless some years back and dosn't no any better and uses EasyCDCrapeater and it's packet writer for about 3mounth for all his down loads
and backup it was a thing of beauty he thought untill the day came he needed some of the data on thous CDRs
I still shiver when I remember that day I throw out about 35 to 40 disks
@ rlb245: That's the day you adopted that computer logo on the left, I guess ..
@ all: I tried to feed the InCD formatter with a CD-RW I had used on a Mac before (treated with good ole Toast 4.1.2 there), and it gulped (error 0028-0003-0001-0006: "Restart your computer and try to format again" .. ). My 2nd CD-RW I cannot find right now. Maybe them disks need to be virgin?
BTW: I didn't know packed writers could be used to also write on CD-R, I thought they were developed for CD-RWs? Hm ..
@ rugrat: Have you tried InCD before? How many times have you written on the same CD-RW amd successfully retrieved data?
BTW: I can imagine that the rate of successful data retrieval is very much dependant on the quality of the medium one is writing on, shouldn't it?
@ all: I tried to feed the InCD formatter with a CD-RW I had used on a Mac before (treated with good ole Toast 4.1.2 there), and it gulped (error 0028-0003-0001-0006: "Restart your computer and try to format again" ..
). My 2nd CD-RW I cannot find right now. Maybe them disks need to be virgin?BTW: I didn't know packed writers could be used to also write on CD-R, I thought they were developed for CD-RWs? Hm ..
@ rugrat: Have you tried InCD before? How many times have you written on the same CD-RW amd successfully retrieved data?
BTW: I can imagine that the rate of successful data retrieval is very much dependant on the quality of the medium one is writing on, shouldn't it?
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Hi pokopiko,
first of all: thank you a lot for your vast and professional anylysis and summary!
Since I would like to keep on using my beloved Windows Commander I will check out Veritas DLA and VOB Instant Write as you proposed, aware of the limitations you wrote about.
Browsing through the web the concept behind the Mount Rainier standard sounds quite promising, although right now it does not look as if those algorithms have been embedded in any working cd writing program so far.
first of all: thank you a lot for your vast and professional anylysis and summary!
Since I would like to keep on using my beloved Windows Commander I will check out Veritas DLA and VOB Instant Write as you proposed, aware of the limitations you wrote about.
Browsing through the web the concept behind the Mount Rainier standard sounds quite promising, although right now it does not look as if those algorithms have been embedded in any working cd writing program so far.
By my experience the CD RW rewritting is quite problematic in general. Particularly I can't recommend to use the "quick blank", when only TOC is blanked. The re-writting on the writted space is unreliable. The best is to blank the entire CDRW before use it again. It means the rewritting at the any packet format is unreliable, too, even if the TOC area is O.K. yet.
