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I get the feeling that someday not to long from now, young people will be unfamiliar with the concept of "burning a CD-ROM" much like they are now unfamiliar with vinyl records. Are you burning CD-ROMs less often these days?
So that no matter which member of a family plays a disc, the player will work. Old or new - there are still dinosaurs out there! I don't own Win7 but I do need this information for Win7 clients. Thanks!
used by disc burner programs to make video and audio CD/DVDs compatible with older players.
"Surely, you can't be serious"
Are there people out there doing that ?
WHY
Are they trying to save a few cents ?
Just because MS encourages you, does not mean it is right.
If your data is important enough for back up, then do generational backups to empty CDs.
Don't be messing about, rewriting to CDs that have important data on them.
Are there people out there doing that ?
WHY
Are they trying to save a few cents ?
Just because MS encourages you, does not mean it is right.
If your data is important enough for back up, then do generational backups to empty CDs.
Don't be messing about, rewriting to CDs that have important data on them.
I was not saying 'Do not backup data to CDs DVDs'
I was saying just use the old proven safe burning method which appears to be called 'Mastered'
MS should not even be offering that first option -
'Like a USB flash drive'
If anyone is using that method for backing up important files, AND are returning to the disc to add / edit / etc the disc, they are fools.
I was saying just use the old proven safe burning method which appears to be called 'Mastered'
MS should not even be offering that first option -
'Like a USB flash drive'
If anyone is using that method for backing up important files, AND are returning to the disc to add / edit / etc the disc, they are fools.
I can't believe that there is any computer user out there who COULDN'T understand the Windows 7 "How do you want to burn a disc" dialogue box - because the two options offered couldn't be simpler to understand! As the article AND the dialogue box explains, the Live File system only works on Windows XP and later, whilst the Mastered disc can be read by most computers. What could be simpler to understand?!!!
But as Rob C says, why on earth would anyone still want to burn optical discs, when flash drives are so cheap and a lot easier to carry around? The only things I ever burn optical discs nowadays are operating system installation discs or emergency boot discs - purely so that I don't accidentally format a drive they are on and lose them! LOL
But as Rob C says, why on earth would anyone still want to burn optical discs, when flash drives are so cheap and a lot easier to carry around? The only things I ever burn optical discs nowadays are operating system installation discs or emergency boot discs - purely so that I don't accidentally format a drive they are on and lose them! LOL
Because optical disks are cheaper. Because you can label an optical disk, so you can tell what's on it without loading it. Because it's harder to overwrite archived data. Because it's less volatile. Because they're harder to lose. Because it's easier to store a stack of DVDs than a handful of flash drives.
Not all data is going to be carried around. If I want to keep backup copies of data in multiple places, I'm going to use DVD, for the reasons stated above. I'm burning three right now at work, of older data that isn't needed online but may be needed for future reference.
Not all data is going to be carried around. If I want to keep backup copies of data in multiple places, I'm going to use DVD, for the reasons stated above. I'm burning three right now at work, of older data that isn't needed online but may be needed for future reference.
I do the same thing: flash drives are for large files that I'm taking to a friend or family member's PC to avoid waiting to download them from email, and that I don't need to store forever on; data CDs/DVDs are for "permanent" storage (i.e. file backup), where either the files are extremely important or would be difficult to recover if I lost them.
I can not afford new stuff, I over a thousand CD R/W's and use them for back ups because they are here and all ready paid for. But the biggest reason is that I can reuse them and not have them dumped in a and fill. Flash drives die more quickly, even if I could afford to buy them. I use the 4 gig flash drives I have for small stuff to transfer from computer to computer. The holders for the CD's stack and are easier for me to store, flash drives vanish for hours at a time because I have no good storage space for them. Those are my reasons. Laugh all you want.
1000 CD R/W's versus a 32gb Flash drive? I know which I'd rather store! You can buy 32gb flash drives for as little as GBP 15 nowadays and each one holds the equivalent of 49 x 650MB cd's. And 500gb portable hard drives cost about GBP 50 and hold the equivalent of approx 787 cd's or 106 DVD's! And to my way of thinking never having to worry about the filing nightmare associated with having dozens and dozens of CD's or DVD's makes life soooo much easier. But I do take Domiles point about old optical discs filling up land fill sites....
What if it that 32 gig is split up between various departments in small chunks? Do you want to give that flash drive or portable drive to a department that wants only its archived data and take the risk they'll overwrite it or the data of other departments? What if some of that data is confidential? Would you want personnel data on the same storage as last year's approve purchase orders?
Incidentally, it takes only seven or eight DVDs for that 32 gig. Burning DVDs may not fit the way you use a computer; that doesn't mean there isn't still a place for them or articles about them.
Incidentally, it takes only seven or eight DVDs for that 32 gig. Burning DVDs may not fit the way you use a computer; that doesn't mean there isn't still a place for them or articles about them.
Palmetto, sorry, I was only thinking of personal use when I made my comments. I agree that in a work environment, optical discs are probably a safer bet than flash drives.
When I got my laptop, I did a bit of experimenting with the copying of files. I am not new to this, yet having a reminder of this helps to refresh my memory. The subject title said that I am not dumb...and NO ONE IS DUMB - Except Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and Adolf Hitler. People with Alzheimer's, Dementia, and other memory-debilitating illnesses could benefit from this...and as I mentioned earlier: This info is a good refresher.
depending on the model of burner and media I'm using. The burner in my Dell desktop doesn't recognize some brands of DVD+R media as acceptable.
My work-around is to start by using the drive like a USB stick. After moving the files to the drive, right-click the drive icon and select 'Close Session'. This will usually make the CD or DVD readable on legacy systems. Your system may behave differently; always test the readability on your target systems before deleting the original data.
My work-around is to start by using the drive like a USB stick. After moving the files to the drive, right-click the drive icon and select 'Close Session'. This will usually make the CD or DVD readable on legacy systems. Your system may behave differently; always test the readability on your target systems before deleting the original data.
Other than audio discs, which require the disc to be closed, MS does not support closing a disc that is not full. Quite often I want to make sure that what I put on a disc cannot be altered; though everything I have read says there is no native way to close a disc. I have found a utility to do this, but it is pretty clunky. Other than this, Windows 7 handles the task just fine. Greg or anyone else, any easy (few clicks) way to accomplish this?
Unless you're using a CD/DVD-RW type disc, the only way to "alter" what's on the disc is to but a brand-new file on the disc that has an identical name & location in the directory structure as the original. In other words, the only way to "overwrite" a file called "MyData.docx" located in the "Data\Mine" directory on your DVD-ROM would be to create a brand-new file on your PC with the same name, put different data in the file, then tell your PC to burn it to the "Data\Mine" directory of your CD/DVD-ROM.
Now, if you mean that you don't want anyone adding additional data to the disc, I don't know if Windows 7 has that capability or not. However, there are plenty of other programs out there you can use that will provide that feature for you, as well as other features. Nero comes to mind, for example.
Now, if you mean that you don't want anyone adding additional data to the disc, I don't know if Windows 7 has that capability or not. However, there are plenty of other programs out there you can use that will provide that feature for you, as well as other features. Nero comes to mind, for example.
on choosing the second option of cd burning in win 7,i can add files later on.Is it correct?i assumed once burn i can not add any files to burn on the mastered cd
Is there an option for multi and non multisession for burning cd and dvd in win 7 as well as Xp.I want to burn a finalized cd on the default cd burning in win7 and Xp.
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