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lynn98109, on Mar 31 2006, 05:05 PM, said:
Mmmm ... just to be sure ... you used Classic Creator and indicated you want to make a data disc, right?
But the symptoms sound more like the disc was formatted first ... the primary use of Packet-Writing is to permantly lose the data. Well, ok, my software guru told me it was for temproraily holding large files, like html websites, for which a floppy is too small, and which aren't expected to be held more than a brief time. For most users, tho, there is the delusion that means "like a floppy disc". I've been there, done that, lost the data permantly.
WinXP figures it can write the data and TOC when it gets around to it, thinking it is a permant drive, so if the disc is ejected from the eject button, it is often ejected either before the data is written or the TOC [Table of Contents] is written. No TOC, no way for the computer to find the info, and it assumes there is no disc in the drive when you put it back in.
(Short course for saving data: NEVER format the disc if you want to KEEP the data)
Lynn
But the symptoms sound more like the disc was formatted first ... the primary use of Packet-Writing is to permantly lose the data. Well, ok, my software guru told me it was for temproraily holding large files, like html websites, for which a floppy is too small, and which aren't expected to be held more than a brief time. For most users, tho, there is the delusion that means "like a floppy disc". I've been there, done that, lost the data permantly.
WinXP figures it can write the data and TOC when it gets around to it, thinking it is a permant drive, so if the disc is ejected from the eject button, it is often ejected either before the data is written or the TOC [Table of Contents] is written. No TOC, no way for the computer to find the info, and it assumes there is no disc in the drive when you put it back in.
(Short course for saving data: NEVER format the disc if you want to KEEP the data)
Lynn
Sounds like a similar problem that I have. I am trying to burn data onto the disk using ISO 9660 format so that later I can use the disks on a UNIX station for data retrieval. The software tries to change the file names to all caps, which is no good for UNIX, and when the disk is burned, it does not get finalized. I have to reinsert the disk and manually tell the software to finalized the disk. I liked version 5.5 better for what I need. XP will not let me use it though....
