Save File to CD-RW Drive

[sunshine]

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I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have Win98SE. Will
this allow me to save a file to a CD-R. I don't think Win98SE support MAPI.
Thanks

 

[Luke]

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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:33:09 -0600, "Sunshine"
<sunshinenews2000-nwsgrps@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have Win98SE. Will
>this allow me to save a file to a CD-R. I don't think Win98SE support MAPI.

Yes.

As others said MAPI has nothing to do with it.

You'll need CD burning software, some version of which (like Nero
Express) you'll likely get with the CD drive. For more than you ever
wanted to know about CD burning:

http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq.html
http://www.mrichter.com/cdr/primer/primer.htm

--
Luke

 

[Guest]

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"Sunshine" <sunshinenews2000-nwsgrps@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have Win98SE. Will
> this allow me to save a file to a CD-R.

No. You'll also need a 3rd party software package.

> I don't think Win98SE support MAPI.

MAPI is the agent that enables an email program
to read emails generated by a different email program.

MAPI has absolutely nothing to do with burning.

The word you probably were thing of is ATAPI,
AT Attachment Packet Interface, an extension to EIDE
(also called ATA-2) that enables the interface
to support CD-ROM players and tape drives.

Although, alas, you'd be wrong there also.

Win98 SE supports burners. Guaranteed.

 

[Guest]

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Except, as AlmostBob says, Win98 doesn't have *native* CD burning
capabilities, and using any kind of "direct write" to a CDR/RW, ala
DirectCD or InCD, is fraught with peril. Best to save files to a
dedicated folder and periodically burn the entire contents to CD.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"Hugh Candlin" <No@MeansNo.Com> wrote in message
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>
> "Sunshine" <sunshinenews2000-nwsgrps@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:uoh3AcgHFHA.2648@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have Win98SE.
Will
> > this allow me to save a file to a CD-R.
>
> No. You'll also need a 3rd party software package.
>
> > I don't think Win98SE support MAPI.
>
> MAPI is the agent that enables an email program
> to read emails generated by a different email program.
>
> MAPI has absolutely nothing to do with burning.
>
> The word you probably were thing of is ATAPI,
> AT Attachment Packet Interface, an extension to EIDE
> (also called ATA-2) that enables the interface
> to support CD-ROM players and tape drives.
>
> Although, alas, you'd be wrong there also.
>
> Win98 SE supports burners. Guaranteed.
>
>

 

[Guest]

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No Windows98&98SE dont directly support the cdrw as a regular drive, the
drive will usually come with software to support it. However such packet
writing software can be problematic, and is often unable to read the disk on
any other pc, in any other version of the same software, and occasionally
not after a reinstall of the software on the same pc, Catastrophic for cds
burned as data backups. It is easier to use the burner software bundled with
the drive to burn the cd in 'the old fashioned way'

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"Sunshine" <sunshinenews2000-nwsgrps@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uoh3AcgHFHA.2648@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have Win98SE. Will
> this allow me to save a file to a CD-R. I don't think Win98SE support
MAPI.
> Thanks
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Or better yet, get a DVD burner (they aren't all that expensive) and some
appropriate software, and burn the entire contents to a DVD.

Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> Except, as AlmostBob says, Win98 doesn't have *native* CD burning
> capabilities, and using any kind of "direct write" to a CDR/RW, ala
> DirectCD or InCD, is fraught with peril. Best to save files to a
> dedicated folder and periodically burn the entire contents to CD.
>
> --
> Gary S. Terhune
> MS MVP Shell/User
> http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
> http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm
>
> "Hugh Candlin" <No@MeansNo.Com> wrote in message
> news:O7%23VoMiHFHA.1996@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Sunshine" <sunshinenews2000-nwsgrps@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:uoh3AcgHFHA.2648@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>>> I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have Win98SE.
>>> Will this allow me to save a file to a CD-R.
>>
>> No. You'll also need a 3rd party software package.
>>
>>> I don't think Win98SE support MAPI.
>>
>> MAPI is the agent that enables an email program
>> to read emails generated by a different email program.
>>
>> MAPI has absolutely nothing to do with burning.
>>
>> The word you probably were thing of is ATAPI,
>> AT Attachment Packet Interface, an extension to EIDE
>> (also called ATA-2) that enables the interface
>> to support CD-ROM players and tape drives.
>>
>> Although, alas, you'd be wrong there also.
>>
>> Win98 SE supports burners. Guaranteed.

 

[Guest]

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"Sunshine" <sunshinenews2000-nwsgrps@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uoh3AcgHFHA.2648@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have Win98SE. Will
> this allow me to save a file to a CD-R. I don't think Win98SE support
MAPI.
> Thanks
>
>
Of course you can save a file to CD-R.

 

[Guest]

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Just to add to everyone else's remarks, and probably
stating the obvious, but I'd rather be sure.

A CD-RW drive is able to burn to CDR (with the bundled
s/w others mentioned), but it is also able to burn to
CDRW discs. The difference here is that CDRs can
only be burned once. So after you save your work to
a CDR, that's it! You can't erase it, you can rewrite it.

If you are creating a backup with lots of data. this is
acceptable behavior, but if you want the CD to just save
the file you are working on, then a CDR disc is not the
best way to go becasue, once you burn that file, that is all
you can burn, and you can't reuse theCD in any way.

The CDRW discs do allow you to rewrite data. So you
can save your work today, then tomorrow you can
erase the CDRW disc and once again copy the same
data to it. It is usually a good idea to rottate 2 or more
CDRW discs, so you'll always have at least one disc
with your data.

Good luck Sunshine!
Saga


"Sunshine" <sunshinenews2000-nwsgrps@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uoh3AcgHFHA.2648@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have Win98SE.
>Will this allow me to save a file to a CD-R. I don't think Win98SE
>support MAPI.
> Thanks
>

 

[Guest]

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Windows 98 supports MAPI, but that has nothing to do with saving data to CD.

If you install a CD/RW drive you will be able to use it to save files to
recordable CDs
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Sunshine" <sunshinenews2000-nwsgrps@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uoh3AcgHFHA.2648@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have Win98SE. Will
>this allow me to save a file to a CD-R. I don't think Win98SE support
>MAPI.
> Thanks
>

 

[Guest]

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Incorrect. CDR disks can be burned many times. Disks are burned in
"sessions", and you can burn multiple sessions to a disk. What you have
to remember to do (in Roxio, anyway) is to import the existing sessions
into the project before adding a new session. This retains the file
table. As you add another session, if a file or files are added that are
the same file (and same path on the CD) as an existing file, the new
"table of contents" points to the new copy instead of the old.You could
conceivably burn 80,000 copies of a 10KB file to a single CDR, and only
one of them, the last one burned, would appear when you went to read it.

Using this "overwrite" ability (not overwriting the data but burning a
new copy to available space and then updating the TOC) is much more
economical (CDRWs cost a lot more), and CDRW disks aren't all they're
cracked up to be. If you're talking about saving several small files
several times, CDRs will do the job just fine.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"Saga" <antiSpam@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:uvO0YcpHFHA.1392@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>
> Just to add to everyone else's remarks, and probably
> stating the obvious, but I'd rather be sure.
>
> A CD-RW drive is able to burn to CDR (with the bundled
> s/w others mentioned), but it is also able to burn to
> CDRW discs. The difference here is that CDRs can
> only be burned once. So after you save your work to
> a CDR, that's it! You can't erase it, you can rewrite it.
>
> If you are creating a backup with lots of data. this is
> acceptable behavior, but if you want the CD to just save
> the file you are working on, then a CDR disc is not the
> best way to go becasue, once you burn that file, that is all
> you can burn, and you can't reuse theCD in any way.
>
> The CDRW discs do allow you to rewrite data. So you
> can save your work today, then tomorrow you can
> erase the CDRW disc and once again copy the same
> data to it. It is usually a good idea to rottate 2 or more
> CDRW discs, so you'll always have at least one disc
> with your data.
>
> Good luck Sunshine!
> Saga
>
>
> "Sunshine" <sunshinenews2000-nwsgrps@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:uoh3AcgHFHA.2648@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> >I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have Win98SE.
> >Will this allow me to save a file to a CD-R. I don't think Win98SE
> >support MAPI.
> > Thanks
> >
>
>

 

[Guest]

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This is only true if you leave the session open. If you close the
session or close the disk, you can no longer write to the disk.

Henry


Gary S. Terhune wrote:
>
> Incorrect. CDR disks can be burned many times. Disks are burned in
> "sessions", and you can burn multiple sessions to a disk. What you have
> to remember to do (in Roxio, anyway) is to import the existing sessions
> into the project before adding a new session. This retains the file
> table. As you add another session, if a file or files are added that are
> the same file (and same path on the CD) as an existing file, the new
> "table of contents" points to the new copy instead of the old.You could
> conceivably burn 80,000 copies of a 10KB file to a single CDR, and only
> one of them, the last one burned, would appear when you went to read it.
>
> Using this "overwrite" ability (not overwriting the data but burning a
> new copy to available space and then updating the TOC) is much more
> economical (CDRWs cost a lot more), and CDRW disks aren't all they're
> cracked up to be. If you're talking about saving several small files
> several times, CDRs will do the job just fine.
>
> --
> Gary S. Terhune
> MS MVP Shell/User
> http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
> http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm
>
> "Saga" <antiSpam@somewhere.com> wrote in message
> news:uvO0YcpHFHA.1392@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >
> > Just to add to everyone else's remarks, and probably
> > stating the obvious, but I'd rather be sure.
> >
> > A CD-RW drive is able to burn to CDR (with the bundled
> > s/w others mentioned), but it is also able to burn to
> > CDRW discs. The difference here is that CDRs can
> > only be burned once. So after you save your work to
> > a CDR, that's it! You can't erase it, you can rewrite it.
> >
> > If you are creating a backup with lots of data. this is
> > acceptable behavior, but if you want the CD to just save
> > the file you are working on, then a CDR disc is not the
> > best way to go becasue, once you burn that file, that is all
> > you can burn, and you can't reuse theCD in any way.
> >
> > The CDRW discs do allow you to rewrite data. So you
> > can save your work today, then tomorrow you can
> > erase the CDRW disc and once again copy the same
> > data to it. It is usually a good idea to rottate 2 or more
> > CDRW discs, so you'll always have at least one disc
> > with your data.
> >
> > Good luck Sunshine!
> > Saga
> >
> >
> > "Sunshine" <sunshinenews2000-nwsgrps@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:uoh3AcgHFHA.2648@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > >I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have Win98SE.
> > >Will this allow me to save a file to a CD-R. I don't think Win98SE
> > >support MAPI.
> > > Thanks
> > >
> >
> >

 

[Guest]

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Well, of course.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

<wa0goz@arrl.net> wrote in message news:422509FB.A22@arrl.net...
> This is only true if you leave the session open. If you close the
> session or close the disk, you can no longer write to the disk.
>
> Henry
>
>
> Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> >
> > Incorrect. CDR disks can be burned many times. Disks are burned in
> > "sessions", and you can burn multiple sessions to a disk. What you
have
> > to remember to do (in Roxio, anyway) is to import the existing
sessions
> > into the project before adding a new session. This retains the file
> > table. As you add another session, if a file or files are added that
are
> > the same file (and same path on the CD) as an existing file, the new
> > "table of contents" points to the new copy instead of the old.You
could
> > conceivably burn 80,000 copies of a 10KB file to a single CDR, and
only
> > one of them, the last one burned, would appear when you went to read
it.
> >
> > Using this "overwrite" ability (not overwriting the data but burning
a
> > new copy to available space and then updating the TOC) is much more
> > economical (CDRWs cost a lot more), and CDRW disks aren't all
they're
> > cracked up to be. If you're talking about saving several small files
> > several times, CDRs will do the job just fine.
> >
> > --
> > Gary S. Terhune
> > MS MVP Shell/User
> > http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
> > http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm
> >
> > "Saga" <antiSpam@somewhere.com> wrote in message
> > news:uvO0YcpHFHA.1392@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > >
> > > Just to add to everyone else's remarks, and probably
> > > stating the obvious, but I'd rather be sure.
> > >
> > > A CD-RW drive is able to burn to CDR (with the bundled
> > > s/w others mentioned), but it is also able to burn to
> > > CDRW discs. The difference here is that CDRs can
> > > only be burned once. So after you save your work to
> > > a CDR, that's it! You can't erase it, you can rewrite it.
> > >
> > > If you are creating a backup with lots of data. this is
> > > acceptable behavior, but if you want the CD to just save
> > > the file you are working on, then a CDR disc is not the
> > > best way to go becasue, once you burn that file, that is all
> > > you can burn, and you can't reuse theCD in any way.
> > >
> > > The CDRW discs do allow you to rewrite data. So you
> > > can save your work today, then tomorrow you can
> > > erase the CDRW disc and once again copy the same
> > > data to it. It is usually a good idea to rottate 2 or more
> > > CDRW discs, so you'll always have at least one disc
> > > with your data.
> > >
> > > Good luck Sunshine!
> > > Saga
> > >
> > >
> > > "Sunshine" <sunshinenews2000-nwsgrps@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > > news:uoh3AcgHFHA.2648@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > > >I am considering adding a CD-RW drive to my system. I have
Win98SE.
> > > >Will this allow me to save a file to a CD-R. I don't think
Win98SE
> > > >support MAPI.
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > >
> > >