Re: partitioning dvds

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I may not have understood your question when I answered in the previous
post. I assumed you wanted to know if you could partition a DVD as one would
partition a hard drive - see here for explanation
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348 if you don't know what I mean. .
While DVD's are not partitioned (as in partitioning a hard drive) you can
create directories (folders) and burn files to those directories. What
essentially happens is files are added incrementally to the disc and the
disc's Table of Contents (TOC) is updated to show the location of the added
files pointing to the directory that they have been added into. This can be
done either using standard burning software like Nero or Roxio or packet
writing software like InCD or Drag to Disk. If you use a DVD-R/W
(rewriteable disc) and packet writing software like Nero's InCD or Roxio's
Drag to Disk to preformat the DVD-R/W then you can erase or overwrite
individual files from the disc and have new data take it's place.

Packet writing has many advantages. One being that, once formatted, you can
save directly to a disk from any application much as one would save to a
giant floppy or to a hard drive. You can also erase individual files from a
formatted DVD-R/W. The downside is that the life expectancy of the disc is
reduced greatly by doing numerous rewrites without doing a full erasure.
Personally I do not consider it to be a good way to save important data such
as medical records. IMO a better alternative is to use a tape device or an
external hard drive to backup data.

If you must use packet writing software you should invest in data retrieval
software such as ISOBuster http://www.isobuster.com/ or DVD Diagnostic
http://www.infinadyne.com/cddvd_diagnostic.html


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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"Harry Ohrn" <harry---@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi. No you can't direct a burn to a specific area of a DVD or CD. Why
would
you want to do that anyway?

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"odeek9" <odeek9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi- I have various personal info. on individual cds. For ex.; med.
records
on one, educational data on another, & so forth. If I want to place all
categorized records on one dvd I can do that. The problem-when burning
additional data to that dvd can I do it in such a way that, say, a blood
panel can be placed with my medical records or is it just going to
follow
the
previous burn to the dvd? Am I clear? Can I separate new burns &
direct
them to specific areas on the dvd?
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As Always-Thanks, Alan





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