Burning on the fly is basically burning from cd to cd *without* the source cd being cached to the hard drive. This is my understanding of it. If I'm incorrect, I'm sure someone will correct me shortly! :-) On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:24:48 -0800, Madrachod@xxxxxxx had this to say: M> In a message dated 6/7/2004 11:25:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, vbalbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: M> M> Basically it takes a failing hard drive and does a low-level format on it on the fly. M> M> I think I have a basic understanding of the term "on the fly", but what exactly does it mean in this circumstance? I have a cd burning studio on my puter that allows me to burn a cd on the fly, but I have no idea what that means. What's the difference twixt burning it normally or on the fly? Won't they both do the same thing and you still have to wait the full 20 minutes for it to finish? M> M> Dale Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage - SP --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------