Re: General question about using CD's
From: Harry Ohrn (harry---_at_webtree.ca)
Date: 08/21/04
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:44:50 -0600
Hi Dudley. check out Alex Nichol's site for great info on burning CDs
http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.htm I have more links and information here
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/cdr_info.htm at this page on my site.
-- Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp "Dudley Henriques" <dhenriques@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message news:OPFSq7zhEHA.964@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > Many thanks for this tidbit! > I understand now what was wrong. I use the CDRW's on my machine for > backup and naturally I need to format in INCD to do that. Since InCD > doesn't support CDR's, it never dawned on me that all I needed to give > my friend was a blank CDR. I've never even used a CDR :-)) > D > "NoNoBadDog!" <mypants_bjsledgeATpixi.com> wrote in message > news:uzo%23K2zhEHA.2880@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... >> Windows native CD burning support does not support CD-RW, formatted or >> otherwise. Regular CD-Rs use the CDFS recording format, while CD_RWs > use >> the UDF format. Without packet writing software installed on your > friends >> machine, his computer cannot see or use a UDF formatted disc. You > must >> understand that CD-R and CD-RW are completely different from each > other. >> >> Bobby >> >> "Dudley Henriques" <dhenriques@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message >> news:eRZtFTzhEHA.1356@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... >> >I hope this question is ok for this group. I'm assuming it might be > as >> > it involves XP's default CD program and CD's. >> > Yesterday, I asked a friend of mine to download a 50meg program file > for >> > me on his high speed connection because my dial up was too slow. The >> > plan was for him to put the file on a CD for me and then I would >> > transfer it to my computer later. >> > I have Nero InCD installed and use that for my CDRW when I need back > up. >> > I'm having no problems with it right now. >> > What I did was format a new blank TDK CDRW in InCD and give that CD > to >> > my friend to use after he downloaded the file. >> > He explained to me today that the file downloaded ok but when he > went to >> > transfer it to the CD I had given him, it wouldn't transfer. >> > He used a blank CD of his own to put the file on and gave that one > to >> > me. >> > I think my friend just uses the supplied XP CD recording program on > his >> > computer. He tells me that he doesn't format his discs but just > copies >> > things right to them. >> > Can someone please tell me why the formatted Nero InCD disk I gave > him >> > wouldn't work on his machine? Should I just have given him a blank > CDRW >> > without formatting it in Nero? >> > Thanks much, >> > Dudley >> > >> > >> >> > >
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