Sonic "Record Now"

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The burning program which came with my new Dell computer is "Record Now"
from Sonic. In order to create a drag and drop disk, I must format the disk
(with dla, whatever that is) which takes about 25 minutes with this program.
The recorded drag and drop disk does not seem to be readable in the cd drive
of my other computers. This is very impractical.

Are there other programs which:

1. Format in less time?

2. Produce disks compatible in other drives?

Thanks

Drew
 
/Drew/ said:
The burning program which came with my new Dell computer is "Record Now"
from Sonic. In order to create a drag and drop disk, I must format the disk
(with dla, whatever that is) which takes about 25 minutes with this program.
The recorded drag and drop disk does not seem to be readable in the cd drive
of my other computers. This is very impractical.

Are there other programs which:

1. Format in less time?

2. Produce disks compatible in other drives?
Click to expand...

1. As I recollect, my program formatted in a similar time frame.

2. Be sure that the other drive has a program comparable to the one used
to create the disk. Better still would be the SAME program. For an
overview of this type of burning, and some alternatives, see...

http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.htm
 
Drew said:
The burning program which came with my new Dell computer is "Record Now"
from Sonic. In order to create a drag and drop disk, I must format the disk
(with dla, whatever that is) which takes about 25 minutes with this program.
The recorded drag and drop disk does not seem to be readable in the cd drive
of my other computers.
Click to expand...

DLA is one of the third party 'packet writing' programs (and the one I
personally prefer) that allow you to write individual files direct to a
CD-RW (or DVD-+RW) disk, as if it were a big floppy or very slow small
hard disk. Whichever of the packages you use is going to take that sort
of time to format, unless you have a writer that supports the so called
'Mount Rainier' or 'EasyWrite' techniques.

A packet formatted disk is likely to need a reader program installed in
many systems - XP can read some (including I think DLA) without
additional support, but that is not general. You should be using Record
Now *without* formatting the disks, and set up a whole batch of files to
then write as an ISO 'session' which is the format use in regular CDs
and should read on about anything (provided Hardware compatibility with
the media is adequate). See more at http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm
 
ISO = An organization, the International Organization for Standardization, that sets standards in many businesses and technologies, including computing and communications.

Yes, if using RW CDs the same program needs to be installed on the other computers. Why not just open RecordNow, put in a blank CD, drag the files you want to the big CD on the program (top left) when they are all there click burn. It will then be readable in any CD-ROM.


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Just my 2¢ worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________

| Thanks for the response -
|
| I hate to ask such a question, but what is an iso session?
|
| Drew
|
| | > Drew wrote:
| >
| > >The burning program which came with my new Dell computer is "Record Now"
| > >from Sonic. In order to create a drag and drop disk, I must format the
| disk
| > >(with dla, whatever that is) which takes about 25 minutes with this
| program.
| > >The recorded drag and drop disk does not seem to be readable in the cd
| drive
| > >of my other computers.
| >
| > DLA is one of the third party 'packet writing' programs (and the one I
| > personally prefer) that allow you to write individual files direct to a
| > CD-RW (or DVD-+RW) disk, as if it were a big floppy or very slow small
| > hard disk. Whichever of the packages you use is going to take that sort
| > of time to format, unless you have a writer that supports the so called
| > 'Mount Rainier' or 'EasyWrite' techniques.
| >
| > A packet formatted disk is likely to need a reader program installed in
| > many systems - XP can read some (including I think DLA) without
| > additional support, but that is not general. You should be using Record
| > Now *without* formatting the disks, and set up a whole batch of files to
| > then write as an ISO 'session' which is the format use in regular CDs
| > and should read on about anything (provided Hardware compatibility with
| > the media is adequate). See more at http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm
| >
| > --
| > Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
| > Bournemouth, U.K. (e-mail address removed)8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
|
|
 
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