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Old March 13th 04, 01:42 AM
Drew
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The burning program which came with my new Dell computer is "Record Now"
from Sonic. In order to create a drag and drop disk, I must format the disk
(with dla, whatever that is) which takes about 25 minutes with this program.
The recorded drag and drop disk does not seem to be readable in the cd drive
of my other computers. This is very impractical.

Are there other programs which:

1. Format in less time?

2. Produce disks compatible in other drives?

Thanks

Drew


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Old March 13th 04, 03:04 AM
dev
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/Drew/ said:

The burning program which came with my new Dell computer is "Record Now"
from Sonic. In order to create a drag and drop disk, I must format the disk
(with dla, whatever that is) which takes about 25 minutes with this program.
The recorded drag and drop disk does not seem to be readable in the cd drive
of my other computers. This is very impractical.

Are there other programs which:

1. Format in less time?

2. Produce disks compatible in other drives?


1. As I recollect, my program formatted in a similar time frame.

2. Be sure that the other drive has a program comparable to the one used
to create the disk. Better still would be the SAME program. For an
overview of this type of burning, and some alternatives, see...

http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.htm

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Old March 13th 04, 06:42 PM
Alex Nichol
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Drew wrote:

The burning program which came with my new Dell computer is "Record Now"
from Sonic. In order to create a drag and drop disk, I must format the disk
(with dla, whatever that is) which takes about 25 minutes with this program.
The recorded drag and drop disk does not seem to be readable in the cd drive
of my other computers.


DLA is one of the third party 'packet writing' programs (and the one I
personally prefer) that allow you to write individual files direct to a
CD-RW (or DVD-+RW) disk, as if it were a big floppy or very slow small
hard disk. Whichever of the packages you use is going to take that sort
of time to format, unless you have a writer that supports the so called
'Mount Rainier' or 'EasyWrite' techniques.

A packet formatted disk is likely to need a reader program installed in
many systems - XP can read some (including I think DLA) without
additional support, but that is not general. You should be using Record
Now *without* formatting the disks, and set up a whole batch of files to
then write as an ISO 'session' which is the format use in regular CDs
and should read on about anything (provided Hardware compatibility with
the media is adequate). See more at http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

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Old March 14th 04, 01:05 AM
Drew
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Default Sonic "Record Now"

Thanks for the response -

I hate to ask such a question, but what is an iso session?

Drew

"Alex Nichol" wrote in message
...
Drew wrote:

The burning program which came with my new Dell computer is "Record Now"
from Sonic. In order to create a drag and drop disk, I must format the

disk
(with dla, whatever that is) which takes about 25 minutes with this

program.
The recorded drag and drop disk does not seem to be readable in the cd

drive
of my other computers.


DLA is one of the third party 'packet writing' programs (and the one I
personally prefer) that allow you to write individual files direct to a
CD-RW (or DVD-+RW) disk, as if it were a big floppy or very slow small
hard disk. Whichever of the packages you use is going to take that sort
of time to format, unless you have a writer that supports the so called
'Mount Rainier' or 'EasyWrite' techniques.

A packet formatted disk is likely to need a reader program installed in
many systems - XP can read some (including I think DLA) without
additional support, but that is not general. You should be using Record
Now *without* formatting the disks, and set up a whole batch of files to
then write as an ISO 'session' which is the format use in regular CDs
and should read on about anything (provided Hardware compatibility with
the media is adequate). See more at http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)



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Old March 14th 04, 05:25 AM
mrtee
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Default Sonic "Record Now"

ISO =3D An organization, the International Organization for =
Standardization, that sets standards in many businesses and =
technologies, including computing and communications.

Yes, if using RW CDs the same program needs to be installed on the other =
computers. Why not just open RecordNow, put in a blank CD, drag the =
files you want to the big CD on the program (top left) when they are all =
there click burn. It will then be readable in any CD-ROM.


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Just my 2=A2 worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________

"Drew" wrote in message =
...
| Thanks for the response -
|=20
| I hate to ask such a question, but what is an iso session?
|=20
| Drew
|=20
| "Alex Nichol" wrote in message
| ...
| Drew wrote:
|
| The burning program which came with my new Dell computer is "Record =
Now"
| from Sonic. In order to create a drag and drop disk, I must format =
the
| disk
| (with dla, whatever that is) which takes about 25 minutes with this
| program.
| The recorded drag and drop disk does not seem to be readable in the =
cd
| drive
| of my other computers.
|
| DLA is one of the third party 'packet writing' programs (and the one =
I
| personally prefer) that allow you to write individual files direct =
to a
| CD-RW (or DVD-+RW) disk, as if it were a big floppy or very slow =
small
| hard disk. Whichever of the packages you use is going to take that =
sort
| of time to format, unless you have a writer that supports the so =
called
| 'Mount Rainier' or 'EasyWrite' techniques.
|
| A packet formatted disk is likely to need a reader program installed =
in
| many systems - XP can read some (including I think DLA) without
| additional support, but that is not general. You should be using =
Record
| Now *without* formatting the disks, and set up a whole batch of =
files to
| then write as an ISO 'session' which is the format use in regular =
CDs
| and should read on about anything (provided Hardware compatibility =
with
| the media is adequate). See more at =
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm
|
| --=20
| Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
| Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)
|=20
|
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Old March 14th 04, 06:03 AM
Airman Basic
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Default Sonic "Record Now"

Check he
http://www.cdrfaq.org/

Drew wrote:
Thanks for the response -

I hate to ask such a question, but what is an iso session?

Drew

 




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