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Started by Greg Quinton
Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:55
I thought you could burn a CDRW a 1000 times?
Author: Greg Quinton
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:55
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:55
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apparently not, because after about 12 sessions, Nero said it was full, so I had to close it. how come? also, when burning in mode 1, it doesn't matter whether you pick DAO or TAO does it? because it has no affect; it's only for audio. then why don't the authors grey out that option!?
Re: I thought you could burn a CDRW a 1000 times?
Author: Jimmy
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:32
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:32
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Erase and start again. "Greg Quinton" <wnt@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:f3u75u8mtqphdabaqe7tihpo5pes6uq7t6@4ax.com... > apparently not, because after about 12 sessions, Nero said it was > full, so I had to close it. how come? > > also, when burning in mode 1, it doesn't matter whether you pick DAO > or TAO does it? because it has no affect; it's only for audio. then > why don't the authors grey out that option!?
Re: I thought you could burn a CDRW a 1000 times?
Author: Graham Mayor
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:30
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:30
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If you burn a rewritable disc in multisession mode, then it behaves exactly as if you used a write once disc. When it is full it is full. The difference is that you can erase a rewritable disc and begin again. How many write/erase cycles it will perform before it becomes unreadable is anyone's guess. -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor <gmayor@btinternet.com> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> "Greg Quinton" <wnt@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:f3u75u8mtqphdabaqe7tihpo5pes6uq7t6@4ax.com... > apparently not, because after about 12 sessions, Nero said it was > full, so I had to close it. how come? > > also, when burning in mode 1, it doesn't matter whether you pick DAO > or TAO does it? because it has no affect; it's only for audio. then > why don't the authors grey out that option!?
Re: I thought you could burn a CDRW a 1000 times?
Author: Anthony Horan
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:51
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:51
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In article <f3u75u8mtqphdabaqe7tihpo5pes6uq7t6@4ax.com>, wnt@bigfoot.com says... > apparently not, because after about 12 sessions, Nero said it was > full, so I had to close it. how come? Try erasing it. (Recorder menu, "Erase ReWritable") > also, when burning in mode 1, it doesn't matter whether you pick DAO > or TAO does it? because it has no affect; it's only for audio. then > why don't the authors grey out that option!? http://www.cdrfaq.org/ ...and specifically... http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html#S2-9 Read and learn. - Anthony
Re: I thought you could burn a CDRW a 1000 times?
Author: Jimmy
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:07
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:07
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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? <WingNut@enter.net> wrote in message news:shia5u0b3m596q1vvl7n3e722cd9s93o9t@4ax.com... > Jimmy wrote: > > >Erase and start again. > > > > Ahem...someone who would post a message such as that one obviously > doesn't know much about burning CDs. Don't you think that the advice > to 'erase' the disc will only prompt another message asking how he can > recover valuable data from an erased disc? > > Think people.... > > -- > > To reply, remove the numbers from my email address.
Re: I thought you could burn a CDRW a 1000 times?
Author: Greg Quinton
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:44
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:44
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Well, we can't all be prodigies like you, mate!!
Re: I thought you could burn a CDRW a 1000 times?
Author: 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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