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"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bs30sr$91juv$1@ID-151056.news.uni-berlin.de...
> In article <3FE46E79.20B51517@teleport.com>,
> ms<msa@nospa.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >In the CDRW format, have you used Imation disks and results? I have
had
> >good results with Imation CDR disks, have but not tried yet same in
> >rewritable format.
>
> I've been using Imation CD_RW for routine daily backup for a couple
of
> years without problems.  One disk lasts about 6 months to a year
> before it's full, so only gets written about 20 to 50 times before
> it's "retired" as I have one for each day of the week (and always
copy
> "yesterday" and "today" [ using good old XCOPY /s/d  ;-) ] so I end
up
> with two copies of everything).  Also been using those Imation
CD_RWs
> for my "Monthly" backups.  So that's now another couple of dozen.
>
> All that said, I've recently switched to Imation CDRs formatted for
> "drag and drop" etc. from Windows/DOS stuff as someone in one of the
> cdrom newsgroups must have convinced me that was a more reliable way
> to go.  8-)  The main problem with this is that these CDRs can't be
> read on other machines that don't have appropriate software
installed
> whereas the CD_RWs can be.
>
>
> Cheers, Phred.
>

You can download UDF Reader from the Roxio site - put it on a floppy
and install it on the other machines