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Penang <kalambong@gmail.com> wrote in
news:a054afca-65ad-4918-a768-e92384d46529@z1g2000prc.googlegro
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> In NERO or ImgBurn and many other CD burning programs they
> have the "verify" step to make sure that the CD/DVD burned
> is the same as the ISO image.
> 
> And what I am looking for is a stand alone utility to do
> just that --- Read in an ISO-Image file, and then compare
> it to the (CD/DVD) disc that is on a CD/DVD drive,
> directory by directory, file by file, byte by byte.
> 
> Again, please accept my sincerest apology for the vagueness
> of my original message !

I basically understood what you want/ed to do and I do not know 
of any such utility.

You were given /so many links/, especially by "johnw" and you 
seem not to have bothered to check any of the links out. I wrote 
you a post earlier today before this latest "clarification" but 
did not bother posting it since all I said had already been 
said.

While it is nice of you to "clarify" for the great unwashed, it 
would have been nice of you to THANK all the people (not just 
ONE) who gave you so much info. It doesn't happen with a snap of 
the fingers, you know - YOU were too lazy to just Google for the 
answer to begin with, weren't you? No one here is God, you know. 
We can't tell you of something that does not exist, while Google 
knows everything.

Still, if you get a utility like WinImage (there are several), 
you can open any ISO file and write it to your HD and then 
compare the contents with what went into the ISO file in the 
FIRST place. I am not aware of ANY utility which can magically 
overcome the fact that AFAIK every ISO file burned from the same 
material by different programs will be slightly different, have 
a completely different checksum, and can not be "compared" bit 
by bit except to a copy of itself with a good file manager or a 
file compare program.

Of course, the easiest, and free, solution would be to use 
imgburn - or to plonk down 40 bucks and get CDRWin from 
goldenhawk (which is what I have been using for years, started 
before imgburn - which is /supposed/ to be even better - came 
out) but if you don't want to do that and insist on using a 
plug-in instead of a real program, that's your problem.

Just out of curiosity, does this miraculous plug-in allow you to 
set the burning speed? Or do you just burn everything at MAX 
like so many other modern "computer users"?

No offense, it's just a little tiresome to see SO many good 
replies and then get a re-post which implies you haven't looked 
at ANY of the links and appear to refuse to accept any of the 
info given.

BTW, ANY program the author of which proudly says "It is 
recommended by MSDN download site along with Easy CD and Nero 
and is used by a number of companies around the world." is 
(IMHO) to be avoided like the plague.

SOME recommendation... MS made BOB, WinME and Vista, remember? 
But they STILL won't let you print the contents of a directory 
in ANY version of Windows without using the command line or a 
3rd party program... The ONLY thing they know how to do is spy 
on their customers and make lots and lots of money...

AFA Roxio and Nero, they make incomprehensible illogical pig 
bloat. Adaptec may have been the first - I remember burning a 
Quantegy/Ampex CDR with Adaptec software at 1x on an external HP 
burner which cost more than a good computer costs today, and 
Roxio is "related" to it, but I know of *few* programs that did 
not change for the worse (if not simply became complete trash) 
when the kinds of changes that Adaptec made in its company 
structure were made. (Let alone when someone just buys someone 
else out, a favorite MS/Adobe tactic of destroying quality 
competition.)

AFA Nero, I find it simply insane. Anyone who uses either it or 
Roxio is not anyone I would trust to recommend a ball-point pen, 
let alone ANY software.



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