Re: No "format" in MY Computer/Files

From: Marko (Marko_at_mmct.net)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:06:38 -0500

exactly, and he has CDRs, so no formatting

Yves Leclerc wrote:

> You never format a CD-R media. This type of media is a type where you WRITE
> ONCE, READ MANY. If you format it, then you can not use it.
>
> However, you can use CD-RW type media and format this type with
> "packet-writing" CD filesystem. XP does not have this type of utility
> built-in so you would need to get Roxio/Sonic Easy Media Creator's Drag to
> CD module or Ahead's InCD.
>
>
> "Marko" <Marko@mmct.net> wrote in message
> news:%23FcfM9p7EHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>
>>CR-Rs don't come formatted
>>
>>
>>Flycaster wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Flycaster wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>No format in my computer/files when I put in a blank CD-r. Shouldn't
>>>>there be a format there? If not, where?
>>>
>>>
>>>As I couldn't write anything to this disk (Probably a corrupted disk,
>>>eh?), I tried another disk. And although still no format showing, I was
>>>able to write to it. Also, when I checked on my C drive, format did show
>>>(a very risky test, eh?) Does this mean that if a disk is already
>>>formatted, which I think mine are, then format doesn't show (at all) in
>>>My Comuter/Files? Or, what does it mean?
>>>
>>>
>>>To email, erase "forgetit"
>>
>>--
>>Marko Jotic
>>"Common sense is anything but common".
>>>From the notebooks of Lazarus Long. Robert A. Heinlein.
>>Handmade knives, antique designs, exotic materials at
>>http://www.knifeforging.com/
>
>
> 

-- 
Marko Jotic
"Common sense is anything but common".
 From the notebooks of Lazarus Long. Robert A. Heinlein.
Handmade knives, antique designs, exotic materials at 
http://www.knifeforging.com/

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