I just want to make a DVD a data DVDl i.e., so it is just like a 4.7GB external hard drive. Thanks!
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How doo you create a data DVD?
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, Sep 20 2007 02:26 AM
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Posted 20 September 2007 - 04:03 AM
QUOTE (Jeff T @ Sep 20 2007, 05:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I just want to make a DVD a data DVDl i.e., so it is just like a 4.7GB external hard drive. Thanks!
Look into Creator Classic. In the burn options, make sure Read Only Disc is not checked. When you later add to the disc, you would then choose the appendable button.
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Posted 20 September 2007 - 08:49 PM
QUOTE (Beerman @ Sep 20 2007, 05:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Look into Creator Classic. In the burn options, make sure Read Only Disc is not checked. When you later add to the disc, you would then choose the appendable button.
Thanks for the reply, but I can not follow this. This is what I want to do, which was extremely easy in Roxy Easy CD Creatpr 5.3.4 which came with my Dell computer:
Format a DVD so that it is a Data DVD with approximatley 4.7 GB of space. Then I want to cut and past files from my C drive to the DVD - no burning at all. Thanks.
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Posted 21 September 2007 - 05:48 AM
QUOTE (Jeff T @ Sep 20 2007, 11:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Thanks for the reply, but I can not follow this. This is what I want to do, which was extremely easy in Roxy Easy CD Creatpr 5.3.4 which came with my Dell computer:
Format a DVD so that it is a Data DVD with approximatley 4.7 GB of space. Then I want to cut and past files from my C drive to the DVD - no burning at all. Thanks.
Format a DVD so that it is a Data DVD with approximatley 4.7 GB of space. Then I want to cut and past files from my C drive to the DVD - no burning at all. Thanks.
You are using Drag to Disc, which is packet writing software and is the least reliable method of backing up your data.
Do not format the disc. Take it off of your spindle of blank discs, put it in your drive, open Creator Classic, add the data you want burned, and burn it to the DVD.
Remember to uncheck the Read Only box, if you want to add more data later.
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Posted 21 September 2007 - 07:47 AM
QUOTE (Jeff T @ Sep 21 2007, 12:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Thanks for the reply, but I can not follow this. This is what I want to do, which was extremely easy in Roxy Easy CD Creatpr 5.3.4 which came with my Dell computer:
Format a DVD so that it is a Data DVD with approximatley 4.7 GB of space. Then I want to cut and past files from my C drive to the DVD - no burning at all. Thanks.
Format a DVD so that it is a Data DVD with approximatley 4.7 GB of space. Then I want to cut and past files from my C drive to the DVD - no burning at all. Thanks.
I don't understand the highlighted part
The only way to put data on a CD or DVD is to burn it to the disc!
You cannot make a DVD "just like a 4.7GB external hard drive"
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Posted 23 September 2007 - 04:55 AM
It would appear you were using DirectCD before which was replaced by Drag to Disc starting in V6.
Both of these are packet writers and like all packet writers have proven themselves to be the most unreliable form of burning ever devised!
If you are keeping anything you value on PW discs, you will most likely lose all of your data before you know it!!!
Learn how to do Data CD/DVD's with Sessions as Paul and GPB have outlined.
I have never seen a single post from anyone about recovering data from a Data Session. Whereas there have been hundreds of posts from those using PW!
Both of these are packet writers and like all packet writers have proven themselves to be the most unreliable form of burning ever devised!
If you are keeping anything you value on PW discs, you will most likely lose all of your data before you know it!!!
Learn how to do Data CD/DVD's with Sessions as Paul and GPB have outlined.
I have never seen a single post from anyone about recovering data from a Data Session. Whereas there have been hundreds of posts from those using PW!
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