Packet CD-RW Writing

[kuk]

What's the best Packet Writing software that runs on Win2k. Cequadrat's WinOnCD, that came with my plextor 12/10/32A drive doesn't seem to work with this OS. I've heard that Adaptec's DirectCD has many compatibility problems, so I was wondering if there is any other way to do Packet-Written CDs.

Thanks

 

[$pade]

Wow, I though I was the only one having problems with direct cd and the plextor 12/10/32a. I am using directcd version 3.01 right now and have not been able to get it to work at 10x with my plextor. Right now the only way of rewriting for is to use nero, but that doesn't allow me to use my cdrw as a regular drive. Using nero you write on the rewriteable the same way as on a regular cdr

 

[kuk]

$pade: Almost any software will write to CD-RW drives, like you said Nero. But one of the sweetest things of CD-RWs is the ability to use them as if they were floppies. I haven't installed DirectCD yet (i'm affraid of it ... some people say it messes up your system, makes other writing software incompatible and can't be uninstalled throughly.

WinOnCD comes with PacketCD, that does about the same thing as DirectCD, but it won't work with Windows 2000.

Well, tough luck ...

 

[MooCow]

Well if it's any help at all I've got a machine with win2k and directcd hasn't given any troubles. I'm not certain with version it is right off though.

 

[kuk]

^^^ ... please post your experiences please ...

 

[Noriaki]

Prassi abCD, DirectCD and WinOnCD are the only packet writers I know about...

You say WinOnCD doesn't work with win2k, DirectCD doesn't like you, I guess that leave's prassi...though I've never actually used it...

 

[WetWilly]

I have both DirectCD 3.01d (bundled with the US Plextor 12/10/32A) and Nero 5.0.22 installed under Win98, and both work fine. I'll also say that this installation is a crapshoot, and there are lots of people that have had plenty of nightmares with this combo installed. I've been pretty happy with DirectCD - used it for at least two years and it works as advertised. Only thing I've noticed is that with CD-RWs there's a noticeable capacity decrease - only 535MB free on a freshly formatted CD-RW.

 

[Painman]

The formatting for packet writing eats up a portion of the disk. CD-RWs are cheap enough, so I think it's a fair tradeoff.

abCD is crap; I can vouch for that... My Sony burner came bundled with it and it was utterly unreliable, corrupted files all over the place. I switched to DirectCD and have had no problems ever since.

-Pain