-=PCTechTalk=- Re: CD Burning Software
- From: "Cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:25:17 -0500
What I don't like about the windows burning program is that
it is difficult to find out when you are reaching the limit
of the amount of data you can put on a cd.
In Nero, it just has a bar that climbs as you put data on to
be burned, so you can play around with what you want to
burn. Plus - I like the way you can find your data to burn
better on Nero.
Cris
----- Original Message -----
From: T. Hunt
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:53 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: CD Burning Software
The feature built into XP that allows you to burn files to
CD is an
older version of Adaptec's (now Roxio) DirectCD program
which is a
packet writing program. It's another in a long line of
bundled
applications that are either old, limited or buggy that
Microsoft has
added to Windows. Seldom do any of these work as well as
the full blown
programs available elsewhere.
My statement was to indicate that Windows' drag'n'drop
feature wasn't
part of any current burning program.
And don't equate "always works" in a situation limited to
one computer
or one household with the idea that a program is functional
across a
wide range of platforms and operating systems. I learned a
lesson a
long time ago on a service call out in the middle of nowhere
when the
CD's I needed wouldn't read in the customer's machine. I
had thought I
would save money by using CD-RW's and erasing and updating
the info.
When I got home, I put all the info on CD-R's using the
TAO/DAO method
and haven't had a problem since.
Backups mean different things to different people. If you
KNOW that
you'll always be reading those CD's in the same machine with
the same
OS, then using a method like that included in Windows is OK
for you.
When I talk about backups, I'm talking about securing vital
information
and putting it in a form that will be as widely readable as
possible, so
I can access it as quickly as possible, on the first machine
I have
available. I am usually involved with corporate records,
bank records,
business transactions, etc.
Tom
Judith wrote:
> But when I use XP's My Computer, click on my CD burning
> drive
> and drop a file I want to save into it, the menu on the
> left
> says "Write these files to CD."
>
> When I click on that, the Wizard which comes up and burns
> the
> file (data) to the CD has the words right before it closes
> that
> the software was made by says Roxio or Nero.
>
> All of the CDs I've burned dragging and dropping files
> always
> work. -- so what do you mean?
>
> Judith
> __________________
> Neither one has anything to do with XP's drag'n'drop
> feature,
> however.
>
> Tom
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