I've got that same problem that a lot of folks do, in that my data backups from Win98 (packet CD) won't read on my current WinXP system. My system has Sonic RecordNow. I'm giving serious consideration to purchasing WriteCD-RW Professional Version because they advertise an easy drag and drop...

Most folk rate TY best for dvd/cd media so how come it is very difficult to find BRANDED Taiyo Yuden media, it is usually plextor/fuji/verbatim or some other brand name on TY media.

Howdy: I have a 1,433,064 KB .avi file that I would like to burn to a CD and make a VCD. How do I go about breaking this thing up to fit on, what, two or three, CD's?? I have Nero 5.5 Express that will burn VCD's. I've burned 'em before, and Nero seems to convert them into the format needed for...

Help needed. I have stored my university project files on a cdrw. The other day the disc stopped reading (other cdrw discs read/write fine). On inserting the disc, it spins for a minute or two then I get a pop up message saying... "The requested files could not be read from the cd in drive (E)....

I' read all the posts that followed the recent post about copying tracks to a hard drive..... the original post was about copying music. I have a similar question about copying "data". I have a data cd (genealogy data) that is in a protected Access file. It's set up so that the only way to access...

I've since I got a Plextor burner, I notice that I am unable to set a speed of 1x in every burning program I have, including PlexTools and Nero, and despite whether I'm burning to a CD-R or CD-RW. 4X is the minimum. Why is this? Is there something I have to set in my system? I'm pretty sure I was...

Can I erase files in a CD-R? If so, how? I read the article on how to delete or edit a file at mrichter.com. But I can't remove the read-only button, any ideas? Thanks.

I'm thinking about putting my giant CD collection on a music server. Right now, I use PC music lightly, so I simply use Realplayer for playback (but ExactCd when I'm ripping for serious quality). But there's defintiely better stuff out there. So what software should I be looking that will smooth...

Hi, I've just bought a NEC 1000A DVD/CD-RW burner and everything is working fine except.. recording and burning DVD's. I've tried to burn five DivX movies on a DVD-R, most of recorded movies could not be started at all. I've done that several times and only one attempt has been succesfull. Here's...

I never use CD-R or CD-RW media for important data backup, but use multiple external hard drives, to preserve data in case one crashes. However, I have quite a few CD-Rs I've made from my LP and casetted collection, and spent a good deal of time filtering the audio input - not just automatically,...

In terms of burning success and DVD burning success and durability, I know that burning at the slowest speed possible is the best strategy for that, but in the free version of Deepburner software I have lists two x1 speeds, one of them is 1X (1 441 Kb/s), and the other is 1X ( 706 Kb/s ) Which...

Hi all, I've got an ISO and I want to see the file system that is inside of it. On the Mac this is easy to do, but how about under Windows? I have Win98SE. Thanks!

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Hello all, I have written some cross-platform Java software that I intend to distribute on a single CD for both Mac OS X and Windows PC. I have created a CD with all the necessary installation files for both versions using Nero in normal ISO mode. The software installs fine on Mac OS X and...

Recently, I had a CD with occasional read errors. This was in my Plextor 40X double-side SCSI drive. So I tried the CD in my LiteON CD-RW drive. Many, many more errors. The CD hardly readable in the Liteon drive. The CD was burned about two years ago. Fuji brand, but I don't know if it was...

I am trying to make an auto running cd that runs in the browser. Am using FrontPage for layout/structure work and Adaptec to burn by CD. I've placed the "Autorun.exe" file and "Autorun.ini" text (notepad) file in the root of my web without any luck. Even tried renaming "ini" file to "inf"...

I received a live concert cdr that only plays through the right channel. The original recording was in mono. Is there a way I could copy the music to my hard drive then burn it to both channels so that is comes out of both stereo speakers when I listen to it? I use EAC.

Greetings All, I was wondering if any of you could explain why my LTR-48125w drive (CDRW) would suddenly start using more cpu? Also when I do a burn the leadin and leadout time has greatly increased. I am using XP Pro Sp1 and yes the drive is set to DMA. Windows reports that it is using UDMA 2. I...

Is the compatibility of DVD dual layer disks sufficient now to consistently read disks made on one machine to be read on another now? I am primarily interested in data archiving and second ( a distant second) in video/music. Has anyone used the Sony dual-layer drives and what have your...

I need to purchase some new CD-R & DVD+R media and was planning to buy Taiyo Yuden for my Plextor PX-708. I found at newegg.com DVD-R47WPYSB8 CDR80WPP100SB Looking at Plextor's site for recommended media, it's not clear that those two products are on the...