"krok dundee" said in news:%23R7bDIm%
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InCd is an app that erases/formats CD RW's
Not really. It provides support for the UDF format (universal data format)
that lets files be written onto rewritable media. It must be rewritable
media since any prior copy of the file on the CD must get marked as deleted
and the file table updated to reflect the position for the newly added copy
of the file. It runs as another file system and why you have to reboot to
load its driver.
InCD is Nero's UDF writer program. DirectCD is Roxio's (Adaptec's) UDF
writer. UDF is a specialized format to allow dynamic update of CD media
without the need to use dedicated CD burning software. As such, and since
not everyone has a driver installed for a UDF reader, only you can read your
UDF-formatted and written CDs. Portability of the UDF disc is limited to
whomever has a UDF reader installed, and may be further restricted to only
those users that have the *same* UDF reader (which is compatible with
whatever UDF writer was used).
CD-ROM Drive May Not Be Able to Read a UDF-Formatted Disc in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321640
Just saying InCD erases and formats the CD rewritable media is severely
oversimplifying the feature along with underexaggerating the incompabilities
of using it.
application from starting when you reboot... yu can always start it
when u need it.
No, it needs to load the UDF driver to add the file system for it so you can
then read from it (or write if the UDF driver also supports writing). That
means you have to reboot to load that extra file system for UDF. For info
regarding UDF, see
http://www.osta.org/specs/index.htm. Also see
Microsoft's article at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prkc_fil_ipge.asp.
UDF is an kernel mode installable file system driver and as such has to get
loaded during startup, not sometime later like an application. ZipMagic was
another installable file system that provided support for .zip files to make
them appear as folders in Windows long before it showed up in Windows XP. I
don't remember the exact problems with ZipMagic but I did have to get rid of
it because of incompatibilities or crashing. It was not a stable IFS
(installable file system). I've used both InCD and DirectCD and have also
found them to be unstable IFS'es often causing BSODs (blue screens of
death).