TSGL: cd read/write troubles

[Ron Brunton]

The piece I'm unclear about is "he is just using the CDs as a backup media"
since there must be CD packet writing software involved. As you describe it,
he's accessing the CD as if it were a hard drive or floppy disk through the
"Save", "Save As" options from the "File" menu of the applications (Word,
Wordpad and Notepad) and possibly through Windows Explorer (drag & drop). In
order to do that, there must be some sort of CD packet writing software in
place. The software probably came with the computer. Other than Nero and
Roxio's Easy CD Creator, I think the other common one that gets bundled is
Sonic. Windows (all version up to and including XP) don't have packet
writing ability. XP does have a CD-R capability, but it's pretty clunky -
you write the file to a special place on your hard drive and then tell XP to
burn those files to CD.

I've had a bunch of trouble over the years with CD burning software. I
switched from Roxio to Nero because I was getting too many coasters with
buffer overflow errors, even though the Roxio packet writing was very smooth
and did allow CD-R disks to act like CD-RW (it's a multi-session trick
rather than really turning CD-R disks into CD-RW disks). Lately, I ran into
a problem where the RAID controller appears to conflict with Nero's packet
writing software, InCD. I'm not using RAID, so I just disabled that software
and things seem to be OK.

All of the above just leads me to the conclusion that while no commercial
product is perfect, he would be better off purchasing one of the two leading
brands (Nero or Roxio) and obtaining more control over the process.

Does any of this make sense for you?

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Chuck Neuenschwander
Sent: December 4, 2006 7:21 PM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: TSGL: cd read/write troubles

he's a (willing to learn and experiment) novice.
I believe he is just using the CDs as a backup media.
He has written and retrieved WORD files before but I was 
trying to get him to use WORDPAD/NotePad and he ran
into this problem.
-chuck


Ron Brunton <rbrunton at accesswave.ca> wrote: Hi Chuck,

Is the problem new? Has he tried to access the Word2k and other files after
they've been reported "saved"? What's he using for packet writing software?
(InCD is the Nero program that allows direct program access to the CD-RW.
Easy CD Creator has a different, and non-compatible utility for doing the
same.) Has this changed? Can he burn a whole CD with whatever CD writing
software he's using?

Ron

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