[Ham-Computers] Windows XP and CD/DVD-R/RW

[Ron Youvan]

WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> OK.  All that I want the CD/DVD writer controller software to do is let me
> treat the removable media like any other drive.  I don't want it to build
> "jobs".  And I don't want it to pretend to write to media that isn't there, if
> I understand what you are saying.  When I tell the system to write
> something, I expect it to write it then or at least shortly afterwards subject to
> buffering considerations.

> Also, I loaded a blank (unformatted) DVD+R) into the drive in my laptop,
> which doesn't have Easy Media or anything similar installed.  The OS came up
> and claimed to recognize it as a blank CD, not DVD.  From which I concluded
> that XP lacks native support for DVD writables.  Which opinion was
> strengthened when a search through the OS Help files failed to find anything other
> than basic description of DVD's.

   Which I already said yesterday:

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WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

 > Is Windows XP supposed to have any native capability to handle CD-R, DVD-R,
 > DVD+R or any of the other variants without loading some 3rd Party software?

   Yes, it will write CD-R data disks, (just fine) but you must follow a help file to get it to work.
Otherwise download "IMGBURN" it's free, it does CD-Rs and DVD-R/DVD+Rs etc. and music CD-Rs if I 
remember correctly.
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