Thank you! That's a very helpful explanation. The Adaptec software that
came with the writer only allows basic functions. The next step will be the
newest Easy CD software.
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Phillip Franklin <pfranklin@xxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 8:52 PM
Subject: [OM] Zip drive repair?
> John,
>
> Since you normally are the one answering questions instead of asking
> them, I am happy to answer one of yours. A writable CDROM drive is a
> special drive in Windows, and normally is not seen the same way as a
> hard drive or floppy drive. There are many technical reasons for this
> but basically the best answer is that when it first came into use it was
> only seen as a special device to read from and not write to. Because
> CDROM writing formats were designed by more dedicated machines they
> created their on format such as Joilet or ISO 9600 or something like
> that or Kodak PhotoCD ect. However that was also a good thing because
> formats are usally cross platform compliant. A CD properly written on a
> Mac can be read by Windows and vice versa. Because Microsoft does own
> this spec they probably won't include in windows. Therefore general
> write I/O's will normally not see the device as writable.
>
> You stated you wanted to backup your hard drive with Windows Backup.
> DON'T even think about this. Use the software that came with your CD
> Write drive (usally Adaptec's Easy CD Creator). Windows Backup uses an
> algorithm only Windows can decompress. So if your system crashs your
> Backup created disk is useless without having Windows. My suggestion is
> to obviously not compress anything. Just a directory by directory
> transfer. Then make sure your system can boot off a CD. Windows Backup
> was designed when a large hard drive was 120mb. It's a joke by todays
> standards.
>
> Hope I helped.
>
> Phillip
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