There is a slow, and a fast format option - The slow (full) format writes 'sector' images to the complete surface of the platter and then those sectors can be individually updated (REWRITTEN) by the system as if it was a FAT formatted hard drive.
The fast format option just writes the basic control information to the beginning of the platter, it then writes the formatting entries to the platter as it writes the data - so the first write to each area of the platter includes the formatting that indicates where on the platter each sector is to be physically placed. and all the 'sectors' need to be set before you remove the platter from the drive. At 4x, that takes about 30 minutes to complete, so if you are not doing a full format, and you are removing the disc before it has finished the formatting then your platter will not have the needed equivalent of a FAT table Try the full format available from the drive properties tap ( right tab in windows explorer ) Alternatively your platters could be not 'fully' compatible with the drive prove that by using Nero to write to the +RW as if it was a normal +R platter JimB. Then again with XP do you need InCD? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Wilkerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 5:48 PM Subject: WinXP copy files to DVD & Karen's Replicator > Don't know if anyone is using this freeware application. It is great. However, I'm having problems writing to my DVD burner. All because of InCd. Karen's program works fine. However, once the DVD disc is removed, and later put back to allow an update. The formatting is such that nothing can write to it or even read it. > > What are people using for a simple file copy/move to a DVD writer? I do have Nero 6 suite;but I hate InCd. Don't understand why a DVD formatted with InCd can't subsequently add more file or even be able to just read what is there. I should point out that I'm using a DVD+rw disc. > > Roger > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME list is hosted on a Windows 2000(TM) machine running L-Soft > international's LISTSERV(R) software. To unsubscribe, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have questions > about the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME list is hosted on a Windows 2000(TM) machine running L-Soft international's LISTSERV(R) software. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have questions about the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
