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Article #202Re: I thought you could burn a CDRW a 1000 times?
From: Patrick I Taylor
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 17:44
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 17:44
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Jimmy wrote: > You are quite right. I assumed that if the person knew the difference between > TAO and DAO, they would know to backup or burn a copy of their CD-RW audio files > before erasing. I may or may not know much about burning CD's, but I do know > that a CD-RW can be erased, that the data needs to be saved if it is valuable, > and that one needs to come in out of the rain in a thunderstorm. Which of these > have you forgotten? The point is, if the disk is FULL, then obviously you can't write any more to it. The OP wasn't able to distinguish between that limitation and the meaning of the 1000-time burn limitation. Perhaps in that case it IS a good idea to warn against idly suggesting to just erase the CD. So...to the OP, if your CD-RW is full, this is why you can't burn anymore. You could erase it and burn it again, but of course all the files that are on it will be gone. You might get some better storage efficiency by copying the contents of the CD-RW to a dedicated folder on your hard drive and then erasing it and burning the files back on it again, but it will most likely still be close to capacity. The 1000 cycles burning is about how many times you can reuse the disk, not about how many times you can stuff more information into an already full container. If each burn only used 1/1000 of the storage, you might be able to do this. But overhead and such makes that unlikely. The disk has "normal" space limitations. Pt
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