TSGL: cd read/write troubles

[The Computer Whisperer]

is he saving to the C drive  in notepad and wordpad?

Justin

On 05/12/06, Ron Brunton <rbrunton at accesswave.ca> wrote:
>
> 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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