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[Grama Hooch]

To keep my cd-rw updated, do I have to erase the original or can I overwrite it with my updated version from my "C" drive (like a floppy disk)? How do I do this?

[Brendon]

The disc writing method which allowed you to format and use a rewriteable disc as a 'big floppy disc' is called "packet writing". It is not provided with Easy Media Creator 10, perhaps because Windows Vista could do that without extra software. It doesn't seem as reliable as writing standard CD/DVD-ROM discs, so use the Vista 'Live File' system at your peril.

Using Roxio Creator Classic, if the data I want to update take up all or most of a disc, I just erase the disc and re-write it entirely. If they only take up a small part of a disc I usually write them in "sessions" onto the disc until it is full, and then erase the disc and start again.

If I'm doing regular updates of files with the same name, I just put them into a folder named after the current date, and burn that folder as a session. That way there's no conflict with file names and I just look on the disc for the right folder if I want a particular version of a file.