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In NERO or ImgBurn and many other CD burning programs they
have the "verify" step to make sure that the CD/DVD burned
is the same as the ISO image.
And what I am looking for is a stand alone utility to do
just that --- Read in an ISO-Image file, and then compare
it to the (CD/DVD) disc that is on a CD/DVD drive,
directory by directory, file by file, byte by byte.
Again, please accept my sincerest apology for the vagueness
of my original message !
I basically understood what you want/ed to do and I do not know
of any such utility.
You were given /so many links/, especially by "johnw" and you
seem not to have bothered to check any of the links out. I wrote
you a post earlier today before this latest "clarification" but
did not bother posting it since all I said had already been
said.
While it is nice of you to "clarify" for the great unwashed, it
would have been nice of you to THANK all the people (not just
ONE) who gave you so much info. It doesn't happen with a snap of
the fingers, you know - YOU were too lazy to just Google for the
answer to begin with, weren't you? No one here is God, you know.
We can't tell you of something that does not exist, while Google
knows everything.
Still, if you get a utility like WinImage (there are several),
you can open any ISO file and write it to your HD and then
compare the contents with what went into the ISO file in the
FIRST place. I am not aware of ANY utility which can magically
overcome the fact that AFAIK every ISO file burned from the same
material by different programs will be slightly different, have
a completely different checksum, and can not be "compared" bit
by bit except to a copy of itself with a good file manager or a
file compare program.
Of course, the easiest, and free, solution would be to use
imgburn - or to plonk down 40 bucks and get CDRWin from
goldenhawk (which is what I have been using for years, started
before imgburn - which is /supposed/ to be even better - came
out) but if you don't want to do that and insist on using a
plug-in instead of a real program, that's your problem.
Just out of curiosity, does this miraculous plug-in allow you to
set the burning speed? Or do you just burn everything at MAX
like so many other modern "computer users"?
No offense, it's just a little tiresome to see SO many good
replies and then get a re-post which implies you haven't looked
at ANY of the links and appear to refuse to accept any of the
info given.
BTW, ANY program the author of which proudly says "It is
recommended by MSDN download site along with Easy CD and Nero
and is used by a number of companies around the world." is
(IMHO) to be avoided like the plague.
SOME recommendation... MS made BOB, WinME and Vista, remember?
But they STILL won't let you print the contents of a directory
in ANY version of Windows without using the command line or a
3rd party program... The ONLY thing they know how to do is spy
on their customers and make lots and lots of money...
AFA Roxio and Nero, they make incomprehensible illogical pig
bloat. Adaptec may have been the first - I remember burning a
Quantegy/Ampex CDR with Adaptec software at 1x on an external HP
burner which cost more than a good computer costs today, and
Roxio is "related" to it, but I know of *few* programs that did
not change for the worse (if not simply became complete trash)
when the kinds of changes that Adaptec made in its company
structure were made. (Let alone when someone just buys someone
else out, a favorite MS/Adobe tactic of destroying quality
competition.)
AFA Nero, I find it simply insane. Anyone who uses either it or
Roxio is not anyone I would trust to recommend a ball-point pen,
let alone ANY software.
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