Can I copy the files on DVD-R to the hard disk?

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Hi, all.Can I copy the files on DVD-R to the hard disk using DVD-ROM machine
or DVD-R machine? I wonder if I can do it because the disks are READ-ONLY.
 
smith said:
Hi, all.Can I copy the files on DVD-R to the hard disk using DVD-ROM
machine or DVD-R machine? I wonder if I can do it because the disks are
READ-ONLY.
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Yes, but why would you not just try it instead of asking the question?
 
Read Only is a way of protecting the file from being overwritten by another
file of the same name or a revised version of the same file.
On DVDs or CDs all files are effectively Read Only since you can't burn a
file to the same area of the media.

JS

smith said:
But why? the DVD-R is READ-ONLY!
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And what about the machine? It is READ ONLY too!

JS said:
Read Only is a way of protecting the file from being overwritten by
another file of the same name or a revised version of the same file.
On DVDs or CDs all files are effectively Read Only since you can't burn a
file to the same area of the media.

JS
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Reading is what you do when you copy the files to "another" drive.

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Richard Urban
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

smith said:
But why? the DVD-R is READ-ONLY!
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There are 2 forms of read only here. One is hardware, where the media
and/or the media reader cannot be written to or write, only read. The other
form is a "read-only" bit for each file.

A "read only" file, when copied to hard disk from CD/DVD, carries the
"read-only" bit with it. It still cannot be written to/modified unless the
"read-only" bit is removed from the file. Such a file is read, then written
as is, not modified during a copy. You are misinterpreting the purpose of
"read-only". Its not a form of copy protection, its a form of modification
and deletion protection.
 
Tell my 2 year old grand daughter that books are read only - when she has a
crayon in her hand. (-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
To date I have not found any computer that has be able to READ my mind and
it has been more than 26 years since I first worked on the concept of neural
implants.

JS
 
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