Formatting CDs
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jun 27 13:20:31 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 21:33 -0500, Justin W wrote:
> Thufir wrote:
> > I'm not sure that it's possible to mount a CD R/W such that you can write
> > and read to it dynamically with random access.
> >
> > Is it possible to do that in windows?
> >
> >
> > -Thufir
> >
> >
> If I remember correctly, a version of Nero on Windows used to be able to
> do that. Unfortunately, I never used it because the only time I tried
> to, the computer glitched and permanently destroyed my CDRW, so I've
> never tried again.
>
> I'd venture to guess that Nero installed a CD-ROM driver in Windows and
> took care of writing to the CD in a proprietary format. In that way,
> I'd also assume that using only software to manage that would not be
> possible, as device driver-level support would also be required.
>
> Totally Guessing,
The above is incorrect. Nero is a program that can format a CD-RW under
windows. Once formatted the CD can be used like any of the hard-drives.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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