Re: Copying Files to CD from Floppy Disk

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rene wrote:

"CAVA" wrote:

I tried to copy files from my floppy disk onto a CD R/W disk. The files on my floppy disk are not Read-Only, but show up as such on my CD. How can I make these files not READ-ONLY files on my CD? I tried changing these CD files using Control Panel/File/Properties, but it won't work. I also tried using Windows Explorer.

You can't. Since a CD is a read-only device, all files are thus read-only. I know, its an RW, but that does not make them writeable. The one file written to the CD is written and that's it. The only way to simulate a re-written file is to put a 2nd copy on the CD and change the directory pointer, which also means writing a 2nd copy of the directory since it too is read only. It can be done, but its not a normal procedure, and thus you have read-only.
The side effect (if you got some program to do this) is that each change has to leave the old file and old directory there and the space is used. You can't erase it, the space on the CD is just ignored. So if you re-write the same 100meg file 5 times, you can't do it again since you now have 5 old copies and one good copy and the 5 old copies are just consuming space and useless. So you basically reduced your 600Meg CD to a 100Meg cd. What a waste.
I gave up using it since it was so useless, and of course a 1 gig thumb drive is really r/w almost indefinitely and they are so cheap.

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