WOWSERS, Windows Explorer will write more than once to CDR's.

[PlatinumGold]

why didn't anyone tell me?? i just found out today.

wow it works well and seems readable by many different cd readers.

woah.

i've used windows explorer to write to CD's for about 2 yrs now, just found out today that it will REWRITE to cd's too. is it packet writing??

what's the dealio?

 

[minendo]

Did you close the session after the first burn?

 

[FoBoT]

you didn't get the memo?

check again, i am sure i sent you the memo

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: minendo
Did you close the session after the first burn?

windows explorer just says finished and kicks the cd out.

i put the cd back in and i can burn to it again. it doesn't really give me the option to close.

 

[PlatinumGold]

btw, with packet writing, doesn't the cd-r have to be formated first?? i don't have any of that with win explorer

 

[SaturnX]

Only CD-RWs need to be formatted, what Explorer is doing is just not finalizing the CD, that's all, all burning software allows you to do the same, as long as you don't finalize the cd you can continually add sessions to the CD, and most drives will pick up all the sessions, but some drives dont' like it.

--Mark

 

[BillGates]

I bet you can't burn 700MB to it back to back.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: BillGates
I bet you can't burn 700MB to it back to back.

since i've been throwing them away after writing just 3 or 4 mb files to them once i no longer needed them, i'm not really too concerned if i lose a few megabytes writing back to back to them.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
you didn't get the memo?

check again, i am sure i sent you the memo

LMAO

 

[KingNothing]

If you do this, some drives won't read the CD. Some drives will read only the last stuff you burned to the CD. Some will read everything. So it's kind of a crapshoot.

 

[aircooled]

it leaves the CD 'open' and lets you write to it again untill it's full.

 

[JoeKing]

cool, can you surf and do other things on the computer at the same time? Stress the system out see what you can get away with. I know my PC couldn't handle that much IO activity.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Joeyman
cool, can you surf and do other things on the computer at the same time? Stress the system out see what you can get away with. I know my PC couldn't handle that much IO activity.

hah

 

[JoeKing]

Originally posted by: iloveme2

Originally posted by: Joeyman
cool, can you surf and do other things on the computer at the same time? Stress the system out see what you can get away with. I know my PC couldn't handle that much IO activity.

hah

yah the ole 'puter is finally getting outdated. Bah I'll upgrade this summer.