Re: Veritas DLA versus XP's built in Roxio?

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:05:39 +0100

JustMee wrote:

> would like to hear from others who have used Veritas's DLA (drive
>letter access) system versus XP's built in Roxio software. I installed
>a new DVD writer on my computer, and now have both of these systems
>installed (however only one can be active at a time.)

The inbuilt CD burning, though it looks like a drag and drop method
similar to DLA or Roxio's Direct CD (Drag to Disk) is in fact nothing of
the sort. It just stashes files on hard disk later to write them as an
ISO session in just the same way as Easy CD Creator does.

If you want true drag and drop, with the ability to update files on a
CD-RW, and to use such a disk as output medium from a program, you need
one of those 'packet writing' programs. DLA is as good as any, and
better than some. I use the facility very little, but it is the one I
use when I have to 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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