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#1 Kokalomd

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Posted 25 January 2008 - 10:23 AM

Once upon a time in Easy CD Creator V one could not only erase a CD or DVD/RW but also reformat it. I don't see that option in the Tools menu EMC 10 and wonder if that is not necessary anymore. Does anyone know the answer?    dry.gif

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Posted 25 January 2008 - 10:25 AM

QUOTE (Kokalomd @ Jan 25 2008, 12:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Once upon a time in Easy CD Creator V one could not only erase a CD or DVD/RW but also reformat it. I don't see that option in the Tools menu EMC 10 and wonder if that is not necessary anymore. Does anyone know the answer?    dry.gif


It actually never was necessary to format a disc, unless you were using Drag to Disc, or some other packet writing software.  Drag to Disc is not part of EMC 10.
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Posted 25 January 2008 - 10:46 AM

Neither Packet-Writing (DirectCD, Drag2Disc, Nero's InCD, Sonic's DLA, etc) nor RW media was ever intended for long-term archiving, so hopefully you are only using it for things like transferring files (altho these days Flash drives - aka Thumb / Jump / Keychain / Pen drives - can do the job and there have been fewer reports of problems with them than Packet-Writing).  Using RW media and Packet-Writing together seems to speed up the failure point.

Here is some additional info to think about -
http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=12382

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Posted 25 January 2008 - 07:25 PM

QUOTE (Kokalomd @ Jan 25 2008, 10:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Once upon a time in Easy CD Creator V one could not only erase a CD or DVD/RW but also reformat it. I don't see that option in the Tools menu EMC 10 and wonder if that is not necessary anymore. Does anyone know the answer?    dry.gif


rolleyes.gif Thanks to all. I was curious as to why packet writing seemed to sort of diappear.


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Posted 25 January 2008 - 07:39 PM

It disappeared from EMC 10 because that suite is designed for Vista, and Vista has adopted this format and use as a big floppy software as its default system - so having a separate application to do it isn't needed any longer. It's now built-in to Vista.
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