CDRWROM Utility

[Earl Gray]

Is the a freeware program that would sit in the system tray and allow direct
writes to a CDRW drive. (Using WIN EXP Pro)

I would like to schedule back ups to a CDRW but need this utility.

Thanks Earl

 

[PKC]

Is the a freeware program that would sit in the system tray and allow
direct writes to a CDRW drive. (Using WIN EXP Pro)

I would like to schedule back ups to a CDRW but need this utility.

Thanks Earl

Nope...

 

[Earl Gray]

Thanks that was helpful..

Nope...

 

[A man]

Is the a freeware program that would sit in the system tray and allow direct
writes to a CDRW drive. (Using WIN EXP Pro)

I would like to schedule back ups to a CDRW but need this utility.

What you are looking for is "packet writing software" for a CD
writer. Plus, you must use the special read/write CDs.

Many CD drives come with this software, like HP computers come with
it, can't remember the name. I think Adaptec also has a version, but
discs written with an HP software cannot be read/written with Adaptec
software.

 

[Paul Blarmy]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:40:30 -0500, A man wrote...

What you are looking for is "packet writing software" for a CD
writer. Plus, you must use the special read/write CDs.

You could do multi-session on a standard CD-R to achieve similar results.

 

[Donald G. Davis]

You could do multi-session on a standard CD-R to achieve similar results.

Doesn't that require manually running a CD-R mastering program?
He wanted something running in the background that would enable writing to
the disc. My favorite for this is Stomp DLA, but that's not freeware.

 

[bambam]

Top post fixed

Thanks that was helpful..

And factually correct, there isn't one.
Besides that packet writing is less than reliable. Use multisession
instead.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

Is the a freeware program that would sit in the system tray and allow direct
writes to a CDRW drive. (Using WIN EXP Pro)

I would like to schedule back ups to a CDRW but need this utility.

Well, there's no freeware UDF packet-writing software that I know of
(on the Windows side, at least - I think Linux has a UDF driver either
in the latest kernels or externally, I'm not sure which). You usually
have to buy some CD burning software like NTI CDNow or Nero Burning
ROM or Adaptec and you get the packet stuff as a driver with it.

Only a couple freeware backup utilities use UDF packet drivers anyway.
Most of them write to the hard disk and then you burn the backed up
directories manually. That's why I bought a cheap older edition of
NTI BackupNow recently (OT) - no freeware can do the job basically.