Re: Formatting CDs

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On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 18:32 -0500, Justin W wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 03:45 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >   
> >> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >>     
> >>> It is annoying that people attack Windows without knowing much about it.
> >>> Whether you believe it or not . I do it all the time on my wife's
> >>> Windows XP machine and the Windows 2000 that runs on a partition on my
> >>> FC4 machine,
> >>>       
> >> I am aware of techniques which work with modern versions of Windows
> >> which allow one to treat a multi-session CDROM as if one could simply
> >> add files to it by dragging and dropping. I have used one myself
> >> like that. But I don't recall "formatting" a CDROM.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>     
> > We all loose some of our memory with age. If you could drag and drop to
> > the CD you or someone formated it.
> >   
> >
> >   
> If I understand Windows' burning scheme correctly, Windows XP has the 
> capability to create sessions on a CD from Explorer.  All you have to do 
> is drag and drop the files to the CD, and then click burn for them to be 
> saved to the disk (no formatting involved).  The process is quite 
> transparent to end users, but behind the scenes, Windows is using the 
> space left over to create multi-session disks.
> 
> Also, if I can again remember correctly, you can actually take a disc 
> made with the method described above and look at the contents of 
> previous versions of the CD in Linux.  Using a session number in the 
> mount options can recover a specific session from a multi-session CD, so 
> if anyone has extra time on their hands, Linux could possibly confirm 
> what Windows is actually doing.

> If you're talking about a drag and drop without the burning process, 
>then the above doesn't apply, but since you didn't specify, I'm giving 
> my educated guess).
> Justin W

I try to be patient but honestly i have said over and over I am not
talking about any overt burning process. Just drag and drop.
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