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| Thread ID: 59056 | 2005-06-20 11:34:00 | Nero does not burn | Thomas01 (317) | Press F1 |
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| 365481 | 2005-06-23 02:17:00 | Nero works ok with multisession . I use it now for most things . Data/photo/video/dvd . Never had a prob with it . I used to use directcd / cd creator 6, but it (directcd) used to make coasters with XP SP2, so I wiped it completely . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 365482 | 2005-06-23 03:56:00 | I am used to Nero - been using it for ages so I thought I could use it on my laptop. But as I mentioned before it just will not run on it. Yes Roxio does. I agree that it works just like a floppy - but only up to a point. It is really slow to get going in comparison - and I find RW CDs produced by Roxio on the laptop will not work on my computer using NERO. Hardly "behaves like a floppy" It desn't work the other way either. And just to make matters worse - it isn't me because I find many others report the same problems. I notice that in many technical articles also they advise avoiding RW CDs and use the ordinary write once. After all they are cheap and the programs especially Nero seem well organised now. That's a hell of an advance from the early versions. However I find that even the novel I have been writing for ages and ages easily fits onto the common floppy. Apart from photographs etc what else would the ordinary person want. Long live the 3.5 floppy. | Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 365483 | 2005-06-23 03:59:00 | I think Overdrive_5000 appears to have it here.... Are you sure the correct burner is selected/available? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 365484 | 2005-06-23 05:35:00 | However I find that even the novel I have been writing for ages and ages easily fits onto the common floppy . Apart from photographs etc what else would the ordinary person want . Long live the 3 . 5 floppy . Just remember that floppy disks can and do fail suddenly and without warning as can the floppy drive which will then proceed to chew up any floppy disks used in it . If your files are precious I would not be relying solely on floppy disks for backups if it were me . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 365485 | 2005-06-23 05:51:00 | It's Rome that burned. Nero just fiddles. :thumbs: | Graham L (2) | ||
| 365486 | 2005-06-23 09:07:00 | Good advice FoxyMX. Though to be honest I used to use floppies for backups for about 10 years and never had any problems. OK occasionally I had a floppy give trouble but Nortons (remember the days when they produced good reliable usable programs?) would always sort the thing out. I have never run across a drive itself which failed - strange that. But I do agree backups should be reliable. I have a spare drive for my regular backup - a networked laptop for duplicate photographs but also backup to CDs - My CDs are sent to various family members so even if I have a fire all my really precious stuff is retained somewhere. If you have no family members I always suggest using the garage for backups. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 365487 | 2005-06-23 22:19:00 | If you have no family members I always suggest using the garage for backups.Your garage can't be like mine then - it is the mostly likely place that a fire will start in this household. :D For years I had no problems with floppy disks either but just lately have had a bad run in with a few dying on me or having problems. Not a biggie to me though because the files on them were replaceable. Godfather and Graham L taught me years ago never to trust them completely. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 365488 | 2005-06-24 02:07:00 | Floppies aren't all bad . ;) OS doesn't do any error checking when it writes . Even on hard disks . The batch command I used to write magnetic tapes on mainframes was "COPYANDCOMPARE" when writing archive tapes as extra check, despite the fact that full size magtapes have "read after write" checking built in to the hardware . The OS would erase a bad block and 3" of extra tape and rewrite it . The equivalent is to use the filecompare command in DOS, to check that a file is both readable and identical to the one on the hard disk . This is an essential step in any backup, on any storage medium . The other essential is multiple copies . I've made a habit of doing a full format on any new floppies . I've been caught too many times with, say, eight of 10 files (1 per floppy) being readable . |
Graham L (2) | ||
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