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| Thread ID: 38350 | 2003-10-04 10:45:00 | CD-RW Media/formatting that will read in Cd-Rom drive?? | PoWa (203) | Press F1 |
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| 180412 | 2003-10-04 10:45:00 | Hi people, I've bought a few Elite Data CD-RW discs and I put the data on them and finalise the cd etc. But the disc won't read in a normal cd-rom drive. I can read the disc fine in the cd writer drive though. I want the Cd-RW disc to be read in a normal cd-rom drive so I can transfer stuff to a different computer, then wipe the disc and re-use it for something else. Is there some type of recording format or method needed for this to work? Or any special brand/type of Cd-RW that I should be buying? Thanks! |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 180413 | 2003-10-04 11:18:00 | Never has been much compatability. The reflectivity just isn't there. Its not a file format issue as far as I know. I have seen some really odd things, where the data files (recognised fine on the burner) were interpreted as corrupt audio tracks on one CD Rom drive, and not recognised (or seen) by the other CD Roms. It does differ from drive to drive, there will be some CD-Rom drives that will recognise them, I am sure. This was interesting, as the company concerned were using the CD-RW as weekly data back-ups. Copying the critical data over the network, then burning it. If they ever needed to restore it, they "assumed" the disks could be read in the individual machines (without CD-RW drives). While fitting drives would have solved the situation, the first time they needed the data to be restored they went into panic mode, as the data was not visible. The perceived need to "save" $0.70 per week was a joke in comparison to the time and worry it did cause. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 180414 | 2003-10-04 11:23:00 | most pc's without cdburning software will need a packet reader such as nero easy write reader or adaptecs udf reader. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 180415 | 2003-10-04 12:48:00 | I've installed Roxio UDF reader 5.1 (Latest) (Roxio took over the software from adaptec) and the stupid thing still won't read in the Cd-rom drive. I've even closed the cd with "Close to UDF 1.5" and "Close so it will read in any Cd-rom drive" options. Still nothing. The cd is now formatted in direct cd options now. I can see why they would have had trouble with getting the data back off the cd-rw disks ;) |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 180416 | 2003-10-04 20:54:00 | Some CDR will read them - some won't. My 2 year old Asus was starting to have troubles with the odd CD,so bought a new one. This reads CDRW fine, so maybe an age thing. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 180417 | 2003-10-05 00:02:00 | Ha, they got a CD burner at work, burnt all the backups to CD-RWs then when the five-month old PC blew up the five-year old PC's very slow CD reader couldn't even read the data on the CD-RW discs, never mind restore it. I did warn them....... :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
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