Ruined CD's XP, Drive orCD Mfgr?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Kelwin Delaunay
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(and presumably this failed)
One thought; I don't know if this is still the case; it was discovered
a few years ago that, even though cdroms and cdr's etc were made for
media containing a capacity of 650 megs (cd's, in plain language), an
unsupported capability existed to read higher than that, up to 700
megs. I don't know if the cdrom drive industry officially supports
that spec, or still goes with the original red book audio capacity
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You get 650M CDRs and 700M CDRs, i.e. the blank disks come in either
size. Modern (XP-era) drives hould work with both.

However, you may be up against a limitation of XP's built-in CD
writing, which is a pretty grizzly affair. It creates multi-session
disks, and the extra overhead involved in multi-session may be enough
for your data load to no longer fit the disk.

Real CDR software such as Nero may well be a bit more daunting, what
with all the detail, but this is where that detail can help - turn off
multi-session, finalize disk, disk-at-once, remove inter-track gaps
when writing audio CDs, fade out audio tracks that don't fit, etc.

The saying "you get what you pay for" doesn't only apply to money - it
can also apply to effort you put into understanding your tools ;-)


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