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CD and DVD burning
I have a drive that is labelled as DVD/CD-RW. I assume that I can only read
DVDs and read/write CDs but I am not sure. I do not seem to have any documentation on writing DVDs. My question is about DLA. When I look at drive properties there is a check mark on "use with DLA". I currently write CDs by dragging files to the D drive and while in the D drive directory selecting burn CD. This works fine. I use CD-R disks. Is DLA only used for CD-RW disks? What is formatting? Is it only necessary for CD-RW disks? If I didn't use DLA what would change in the way I write disks. How can I tell if I can write DVDs? -- Dennis M. Marks |
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CD and DVD burning
I have done further research on DLA and it seems that by just dropping a file
on the D drive it will burn it without having to select the burn command. If I have the "use with DLA" checked and do not format the disk does the system automatically fall back to the standard way of burning? What is the advantage of DLA? "denmarks" wrote: I have a drive that is labelled as DVD/CD-RW. I assume that I can only read DVDs and read/write CDs but I am not sure. I do not seem to have any documentation on writing DVDs. My question is about DLA. When I look at drive properties there is a check mark on "use with DLA". I currently write CDs by dragging files to the D drive and while in the D drive directory selecting burn CD. This works fine. I use CD-R disks. Is DLA only used for CD-RW disks? What is formatting? Is it only necessary for CD-RW disks? If I didn't use DLA what would change in the way I write disks. How can I tell if I can write DVDs? -- Dennis M. Marks |
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CD and DVD burning
Well, to answer my own question I have found that my computer requires CD-RW
disks to use DLA. I still would like to know of any advantages. "denmarks" wrote: I have done further research on DLA and it seems that by just dropping a file on the D drive it will burn it without having to select the burn command. If I have the "use with DLA" checked and do not format the disk does the system automatically fall back to the standard way of burning? What is the advantage of DLA? "denmarks" wrote: I have a drive that is labelled as DVD/CD-RW. I assume that I can only read DVDs and read/write CDs but I am not sure. I do not seem to have any documentation on writing DVDs. My question is about DLA. When I look at drive properties there is a check mark on "use with DLA". I currently write CDs by dragging files to the D drive and while in the D drive directory selecting burn CD. This works fine. I use CD-R disks. Is DLA only used for CD-RW disks? What is formatting? Is it only necessary for CD-RW disks? If I didn't use DLA what would change in the way I write disks. How can I tell if I can write DVDs? -- Dennis M. Marks |
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CD and DVD burning
You may wish to read about the UDF format or packet writing, which is what
DLA uses, at Alex Nichol's site http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm The advantage of an application like DLA is that it "preformats" or prepares a CD-R/W so it can perform like a giant floppy. You drag and drop files directly to the CD Writer icon and they will be immediately written to the disk. You can also delete or overwrite individual files in addition to being able to erase them. And most importantly you can save directly to the disc from any program that can write to a floppy drive, like Notepad, MS Word, NTBackup etc. You can even download files off the internet directly to a DLA formatted CD-R/W. This all sounds grand however packet formatted disks have problems. One is that unless they are finalized they usually can not be read on a computer that doesn't have packet reading software installed. You can not use packet writing software to create music CDs. A major problem is that these disc are notorious for becoming unreadable. The main cause can be traced to how they write data. Most packet writing software programs create a VCache (virtual cache) which contains data that is not burned to the disc until it is ejected. Incorrectly ejecting packet formatted discs can result in the VCache data not being written and the disc is unreadable. The correct ejection is to use the software's eject method rather than using the drive's eject button. A system lock up, improper shutdown or power failure can also render the disc unreadable if the VCache data isn't written to the disc prior to shutdown. Third party software like ISOBuster or CD-Diagnostics should be kept on hand if you use packet writing as these apps can extract raw data from otherwise unreadable discs. -- Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User] www.webtree.ca/windowsxp "denmarks" wrote in message ... Well, to answer my own question I have found that my computer requires CD-RW disks to use DLA. I still would like to know of any advantages. "denmarks" wrote: I have done further research on DLA and it seems that by just dropping a file on the D drive it will burn it without having to select the burn command. If I have the "use with DLA" checked and do not format the disk does the system automatically fall back to the standard way of burning? What is the advantage of DLA? "denmarks" wrote: I have a drive that is labelled as DVD/CD-RW. I assume that I can only read DVDs and read/write CDs but I am not sure. I do not seem to have any documentation on writing DVDs. My question is about DLA. When I look at drive properties there is a check mark on "use with DLA". I currently write CDs by dragging files to the D drive and while in the D drive directory selecting burn CD. This works fine. I use CD-R disks. Is DLA only used for CD-RW disks? What is formatting? Is it only necessary for CD-RW disks? If I didn't use DLA what would change in the way I write disks. How can I tell if I can write DVDs? -- Dennis M. Marks |
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