RW CDs

[Robert H]

Have new PC w/no floppy dr. After saving data on RW CD with CD RW Drive
find I have Read Only file I can't edit. Need to post certai
information on CD that I don't want to keep on hard drive but can b
periodically revised...not just erased. How do I get RW CD to perfor
as floppy disc would

 

[dev]

/Robert H/ said:

Have new PC w/no floppy dr. After saving data on RW CD with CD RW Drive,
find I have Read Only file I can't edit. Need to post certain
information on CD that I don't want to keep on hard drive but can be
periodically revised...not just erased. How do I get RW CD to perform
as floppy disc would?

XP, natively, cannot format the disk - to act the way you desire. See...
http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.htm

and read about UDF Format Disks

 

[Michael Stevens]

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Have new PC w/no floppy dr. After saving data on RW CD with CD RW
Drive, find I have Read Only file I can't edit. Need to post certain
information on CD that I don't want to keep on hard drive but can be
periodically revised...not just erased. How do I get RW CD to perform
as floppy disc would?

You will need third party burning software.
Roxio and Nero both have packet writting applications in their applications.
Have both, like both.

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[Borg hater]

XP is perfoming as designed, it cannot do rewrites of singular or multiple
files when accessed then saved to the same CD rewritable media. 2 commonly
used 3rd party programs are Nero's INCD and Roxio's DirectCD for the purpose
of your rewrites.

 

[Gordon]

XP is perfoming as designed, it cannot do rewrites of singular or
multiple files when accessed then saved to the same CD rewritable
media. 2 commonly used 3rd party programs are Nero's INCD and
Roxio's DirectCD for the purpose of your rewrites.

And if you can't afford either of those, then try CDBurner XP Pro
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

This will do everything (AFAIK) that Nero and Roxio will do and it's free.

HTH

 

[NobodyMan]

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You will need third party burning software.
Roxio and Nero both have packet writting applications in their applications.
Have both, like both.

Also, back up elsewhere. Critical data on CDRW media, written using
packet-writing software, is almost always going to be corrupt or not
accessable on the CDRW when you need it the most. CDRW combined with
packet-writing is not all that reliable - from my experience it's a
disaster just waiting to happen.