partitioning dvds

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Hi- I have various personal info. on individual cds. For ex.; med. records
on one, educational data on another, & so forth. If I want to place all
categorized records on one dvd I can do that. The problem-when burning
additional data to that dvd can I do it in such a way that, say, a blood
panel can be placed with my medical records or is it just going to follow the
previous burn to the dvd? Am I clear? Can I separate new burns & direct
them to specific areas on the dvd?
 
Both Nero and Roxio ( Sonic ) have a formatting feature which allows you to
drag and drop material. I don't know if this feature will do what you want,
but both vendors have support forums where you can find out.

Wayne
 
i am pretty sure you can download a trial of nero7 from their site, but make
sure it has INCD as this is the application you would need to format discs so
you can drag and drop.
 
Hi. No you can't direct a burn to a specific area of a DVD or CD. Why would
you want to do that anyway?
 
If you have Nero InCD you need to format the DVD using InCD. This
effectivelly turns it into a very large floppy disk. Now, to start with,
open Windows Explorer and create a set of folders suitable for your purpose
i.e., med records, educational data etc. Next move the data you want to copy
to the DVD into the relevant folder. Once you have everything set up put the
DVD into your DVD-ROM drive and either copy and paste or drag and drop each
folder onto the DVD. InCD will now copy each folder and its contant to the
DVD.
Any future data you need to add you simply insert the DVD into the DVD
drive, open Windows explorer, click on your data and copy (or cut if you
don't want it left on your hard drive), click the DVD drive, select the
relevant folder, and then click Paste. It is no more difficult than using
folder on your hard drive, the only differencwe is that you are using a DVD
instead. But, as i say, you must have either Nero InCD or Roxio Drag to disk
installed.

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'Harry Ohrn' wote:
| Hi. No you can't direct a burn to a specific area of a DVD or CD. Why
would
| you want to do that anyway?
|
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Sure you can. Don't you think he wants logical orgainzation in a file
structure rather than physical spacing? Using folders and Windows Explorer.
As long as it is a R/W DVD or R/W CD drive with R/W media, applications like
Roxio Easy Media Creator allow you to treat R/W media as a hard drive. If
you don't have a R/W drive, DVD R/W drives are only about $50 US, and DVD
R/W media is about $1 US per disk.

Phil Weldon

| Hi. No you can't direct a burn to a specific area of a DVD or CD. Why
would
| you want to do that anyway?
|
| --
|
| Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
| www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
|
|
| | > Hi- I have various personal info. on individual cds. For ex.; med.
| records
| > on one, educational data on another, & so forth. If I want to place all
| > categorized records on one dvd I can do that. The problem-when burning
| > additional data to that dvd can I do it in such a way that, say, a blood
| > panel can be placed with my medical records or is it just going to
follow
| the
| > previous burn to the dvd? Am I clear? Can I separate new burns &
direct
| > them to specific areas on the dvd?
| > --
| > As Always-Thanks, Alan
|
|
 
I may not have understood your question when I answered in the previous
post. I assumed you wanted to know if you could partition a DVD as one would
partition a hard drive - see here for explanation
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348 if you don't know what I mean. .
While DVD's are not partitioned (as in partitioning a hard drive) you can
create directories (folders) and burn files to those directories. What
essentially happens is files are added incrementally to the disc and the
disc's Table of Contents (TOC) is updated to show the location of the added
files pointing to the directory that they have been added into. This can be
done either using standard burning software like Nero or Roxio or packet
writing software like InCD or Drag to Disk. If you use a DVD-R/W
(rewriteable disc) and packet writing software like Nero's InCD or Roxio's
Drag to Disk to preformat the DVD-R/W then you can erase or overwrite
individual files from the disc and have new data take it's place.

Packet writing has many advantages. One being that, once formatted, you can
save directly to a disk from any application much as one would save to a
giant floppy or to a hard drive. You can also erase individual files from a
formatted DVD-R/W. The downside is that the life expectancy of the disc is
reduced greatly by doing numerous rewrites without doing a full erasure.
Personally I do not consider it to be a good way to save important data such
as medical records. IMO a better alternative is to use a tape device or an
external hard drive to backup data.

If you must use packet writing software you should invest in data retrieval
software such as ISOBuster http://www.isobuster.com/ or DVD Diagnostic
http://www.infinadyne.com/cddvd_diagnostic.html


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www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


Harry Ohrn said:
Hi. No you can't direct a burn to a specific area of a DVD or CD. Why would
you want to do that anyway?

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


odeek9 said:
Hi- I have various personal info. on individual cds. For ex.; med. records
on one, educational data on another, & so forth. If I want to place all
categorized records on one dvd I can do that. The problem-when burning
additional data to that dvd can I do it in such a way that, say, a blood
panel can be placed with my medical records or is it just going to
Click to expand...
follow
the
previous burn to the dvd? Am I clear? Can I separate new burns & direct
them to specific areas on the dvd?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Yes he can create folders and directories and save files to them. I assumed
from his subject line that he wanted to create partitions on a DVD and save
to those partitions much like one can create multiple partitions on a hard
drive. In case you don't understand what partitioning is you can read about
it here http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives.htm
 
'Harry Ohrn' wrote:
| Yes he can create folders and directories and save files to them. I
assumed
| from his subject line that he wanted to create partitions on a DVD and
save
| to those partitions much like one can create multiple partitions on a hard
| drive. In case you don't understand what partitioning is you can read
about
| it here http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives.htm

Since you didn't understand my comment, perhaps you should read it again.

Phil Weldon

| Yes he can create folders and directories and save files to them. I
assumed
| from his subject line that he wanted to create partitions on a DVD and
save
| to those partitions much like one can create multiple partitions on a hard
| drive. In case you don't understand what partitioning is you can read
about
| it here http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives.htm
|
| --
|
| Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
| www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
 
Finally! Thanks John &, to some extent, Phil. To answer Harry's question,
as to wht I would want to do this-it's quite simple. I want all data on the
dvd organized. Not! random added info.. I don't want my latest blood test
result following my previous burn of my dog's next vaccination date. I don't
know that I can make it any more clear.
Anyway, John explained, precisely, what I would like to do. Thanks
again.
 
Glad to have been of help, Alan

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either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy,
reliability or content of this post. The Author shall not be liable for any
direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use
of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this post..
 
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