re: CD-RW as a working directory
Saturday, June 16, 2001 at 10:26 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jim Swearingen
(215 messages posted)
Good question, Steve, and I'm glad you posted it. I've been working on a
similar disk in preparation for copying to a CD-R to send to a friend, and your
thought about the viewer made me take a better look at what I had done.
Basically, the answer to "is it do-able?" is "yes, with the right software".
I have two CD-RW drives on my desktop (don't ask why), a Plextor PXW1210A, and a
Sony CRX145E. The Plextor came with software from both Plextor and Adaptec (now
Roxio), but Pressi's abCD, which came with the Sony, has proved to be the best
for working with either drive. With it, I never have to close the disk, and can
move it from drive to drive, or computer to computer.
The big question is whether you intend for the disk to be portable from one
computer to another.
As long as you use the disk on a computer that has a CD-RW drive compatible
with the software used to format the disk, and the software is installed on that
computer, you can both write to it and read from it. If you move the disk to a
computer with a CD-ROM drive but not a CD-RW drive, or to one with a CD-RW drive
but not the software, or to one with a CD-RW drive incompatible with the
software, you'll be able to read from it, but not write to it.
For your viewer, I'd suggest using IrfanView, which doesn't have to be
installed. Set up the program on the computer with your CD-RW drive so that you
can save the desired settings, and then you can use it on any computer with a CD
drive, and you'll be able to view images not only on the CD, but on the host
computer, as well.
Without getting technical, CD-Rs and CD-RWs are completely different media.
If you want to talk further about this, feel free to email me.
Jim Swearingen
JSS3rd@earthlink.net
On Fri, 15 Jun, 2001 - 23:25, Steve Cleveland wrote:
I am familiar with cd-r applications for music and other uses, but I have yet
to use the cd-rw media. I have a use for it now with my genealogy interests.
Specifically, I wish to have a rewritable disc that I can add scanned pictures
of photos, pages from books, etc on an ongoing usage. I want to have a viewer
progam on the disc, the sub-files, and continue to add files as I gather them or
to change files on the disc and be able to basically use the disc on its own to
launch a viewer program, see the contents, and later expand the files on the
disc as needed. Is this a do-able thing with this media or do I have to leave
the disc open until I am ready to close the disc, therefore not able to use the
disc until I am finished with it? That brings me to another question. Is the
only difference between a CD-R and a CD-RW is that the CD-RW can be erased and
written over again, otherwise the left open or closed is the same???
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- CD-RW as a working directory (Steve C: Friday, June 15, 2001 at 11:25 pm)
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