Thanks Bernie,
I did not have such experience before since
normally I do not use full erase to save time
but I now on I will use it for all new media.
I did not throw up the blank disc right away and
have done quick erase and so far the have been able to
write files without much problem.
I would not use it for system backup but it seems to be
OK for transferring a few files from one computer to the
other.
However my laptop seems to sometimes hang up when I insert it.
Have you tried ISObuster or blindwrite?
They are supposed to work with damaged media too.
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From: "Bernie Cosell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I have, and it makes sense: if there's a bad place on the disk, the
'quick erase' just puts an empty directory structure at the beginning of
the disk, and so won't see it, but a 'full erase' will try to touch the
entire disk, and so run across anything that's amiss...
Is there any way to make sure you CDR media specially non-rewritable to
make
sure that it will actually be readable or
writable?
I do know Nero and some other programs have an option to verify written
data
but how dependable is that?
I use Nero and all I can say is:
1) I have _never_ had a disk that was written and verified subsequently
show up as unreadable, and
2) I have had lots of CDRW disks that wouldn't 'verify' and *NOTHING* I
could with any tool on any system [including low-level stuff from the
command line on a Linux system] could get them to behave [so I concluded
that the disks were truly dead, and just chucked them].
So I have experience both positive and negative with the 'verify'
machinery in Nero and have never had a problem with a 'false' report
either way, so I'm convinced...:o)
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