Thanks James, but that is not the case with my use of INCD with DVD+-RW disks over the last several years. They have always worked and worked realiably and without problems. It has always been with the OS that I get problems not the programs - well sometimes the disks are no good. I change brands when the disks don't work, but when they do they don't fail. - that didn't come out right. What I mean is some brands never work.
I doubt there would be much argument if I was talking about a hard drive? I just want to use DVD+RW with Windows 64-bit? A yes or no would be fine. Regards Robert McCurdy "126 line limit is silly I had to snip lots" ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Button" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 4:08 AM Subject: Re: HARD: cdrw's invisible Two problems with using RW media in 'hard drive mode' Firstly, different software 'manages' the space using different 'format' and 'space' management The disc may look like a FAT partition, but that's because the software 'managing' the drive presents the data as a FAT partition to explorer (That's why Nero can have problems reading discs created by Roxio in 'packet mode' Secondly, the discs usually have a life of 1000 rewrites - and every file you add, delete, or change usually involves a change to the space allocation information, or the directory information held on the disc, so writing 500 files individually can be expected to re-write the part of the disc containing the space allocation information. Think of a disc as an A4 notebook each page having a header, and the entire set of pages being accessed through an index held on the first few pages - It's up to the person starting to use the notebook how many pages they use for the index ( 1, 2, 4 - 6 whatever), and what they put into the headers on each page (3 - 4 digit page numbers decimal or binary), even how many lines are used for the header So - when the managing application reads the index, is the page number the first or last thing on the line and when you get to that page, does the information start on line 2, 3 4 or where? JimB -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
