Compact Disc or CD is a type of optical physical media that can hold digital data (data, music, video). Standard CDs can hold up to 700MB of data, or 80 minutes of audio if converted to an audio-CD.
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AUTORUN.inf not working
Could sombody please tell me why my Autorun.inf is not working when i burn it to CD rom..?
I have checked the fille names and they all exist?
[autorun]
open="VTS\TREADSTONE LT\TREADSTONE LT.bat"
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How do I change drive icon [closed]
You put up an explanation of how to do this but at my stage of expertise I can not follow it. Especially the "Give the default value, the icon you want to use e.g. c:\windows\system32/shell32.dll,74 ...
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How to check quality of CD/DVD before burning?
I recently bought a couple of DVDs to burn but majority of them turned as faulty DVDs. I came to know when the DVDs were not able to burn the data into them. Hence Is there a way by which I can check ...
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How to poweroff CD drive in Windows 7 [duplicate]
I am running Windows 7 64 bit on Lenovo W510, I wish to poweroff the CD drive. The power manager sometimes switches off the power when I am running on batteries. Is there a way I can do that myself.
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Can magnets used in boxes affect CD/DVD discs?
I've had a paranoid fear that any magnet would wreck a CD/DVD.
A while back, I got a bunch of Puela Magi Madoka Magica rings and necklaces, the boxes they came in open up like a book. It has a flap ...
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Setup cannot find a CD-ROM drive
I'm trying to install WIN XP SP2 on a standard PC.
Boot from CD - and after some confirmation I got a blue screen:
Setup cannot find a CD-ROM drive Make sure your CD-ROM is on and
properly ...
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How to mount a dual hfs/iso9660 cd as iso9660 in Mac OS Mountail Lion?
I'm trying to install Warcraft III and run it using Wine. However it's loading the Mac image off of the CD, and it only has a PowerPC version, which is not supported.
Is there a way to mount the ...
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Why DVD writers only have 24x write speed? [closed]
I remember CD writers get's twice the speed, now it seems DVD writers can only do up to 24x write speed if internal, and just 8x if it's a portable writer. It's been years since and it seems stuck on ...
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Can't read audio CD in Linux, and I getting Sense errors in syslog
Using Ubuntu 12.10, I get this awkward error when I try to play a CD. Here is what dmesg shows when I try to play an Audio CD with vlc /dev/sr0
sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0]
Result: hostbyte=DID_OK ...
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How do we calculate CD writing speed
I am doing a pass paper question of my exam and I got following question. What is the maximum amount of data that can be written within 1 second to a 52X CD-R using a CD Writer with a write speed of ...
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CD Rom Door Does Not Shut
My CD ROM door only remains closed when the computer is turned (Off) or if I am playing CD music Disc. I tried programming my computer because Windows Media Player refused to burn my CD's. I did ...
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How to find out when a disc (DVD) has been written/burned?
Is there a way/tool to determine the date and time when a disc has been written/burned with high certainty? This is about data forensics and should be a solid proof. I already tried IsoBuster, but it ...
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How to format CDROM using Windows 7 from the command prompt
I'm currently using Windows 7 to create multiple copies of CDROM using a batch file. I could automate the copying of files but I'm not able to find out how to format the CDROM from the command ...
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Will there ever be faster CD and DVD discs and writers?
I was thinking about the fact that in the last years I have never seen CDs and DVDs supporting writing/reading speeds higher than 52X and 16X, respectively.
Is this a commercial choice (i.e. ...
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Burn Track Info/Tags to Audio CD
I am using MusicBee in Window7 to burn custom recordings (MP3 files) to an audio cd. The MP3 files have all the track information ('tags' in musicbee) filled out. When I burn the files to a cd using ...
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Would the life of an optical drive be shortened by closing it with your hand? [closed]
I've always switched back and forth with closing an optical drive with my hand and just pressing the button that ejects and accepts the disc.
Noticing that some excessive force may be used by ...
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500 MB Avi video from CD lagging/glitching when reproduced
I created an extra cd with Nero Burning that contains both audio tracks (I can hear them correctly) and a .avi presentation (pretty big one, 540 MB on a 700 MB cd).
The audio is fine but the problem ...
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CD\ROM driver won't start
CD ROM won't start in Windows 7, Dell Inspiron 530S. It shows up in Device Manager, but not under Computer. Can't read DVD.
Can you suggest how to enable this please?
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Creating an audio CD that also opens a video presentation on a PC
I've seen this before with commercial CDs: they sound like regular a audio CD when inserted into a music player or stereo, but when inserted into a PC they instead open up a Flash presentation (.exe) ...
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what prevents cd-r from being rewritten?
I know its kind of a dead / dieing technology but i was wandering what stops a cd-r from be rewritten like a cd-rw.
Is it a sort of firm-ware on the disc essentialy in place to make people buy more ...
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How to Lock CD/DVD Drive to VirtualBox Guest System?
I have VirtualBox running on my Win7. The guest system is a Win2000.
Now I want to test a DVD I got for Christmas with a software collection on it. Since I'm aware of autorun and other ...
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Multimedia Disk autorun creator application [closed]
I need to create a library of PDF ebooks on a optical disk (CD , DVD).
Is there a free application that be able to create autorun for disks that be able to:
List titles for PDFs and open them on ...
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Common ISO-file not fitting on a common cd-r disc?
The short version: Why can't I burn common ISO files on to regular CDs?
The longer version:
I have a stack of CD-Rs, with discs from two different brands.
I also have two ISO files with Ubuntu 10.04 ...
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Burning Audio CDs from mp3 but on a DVD-R media( not CD-R ) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to burn DVD as audio CD?
I am trying to create a Audio-CD from mp3 files. The media disc I use is a blank DVD-R disc and NOT a CD-ROM disc I used many ...
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How to destroy files (make unreadable) from a CD-R
I have a CD which has data written to it. Note: It's not multisession.
I want to know if it is possible to make a certain subset of files on the CD unreadable using a CD-RW drive somehow. I guess ...
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How to mount a folder as a virtual CD or DVD drive?
I want to mount a local folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive to allow me to run a program without having the CD mounted physically.
I know I could burn it to an ISO file and mount that as a virtual ...
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Determining physical location of data on a disc
Does anybody know of a way to find out where, physically on a CD or DVD a given piece of data would be located?
I am trying to watch a DVD at the moment, and am about half-way through, but it keeps ...
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Blank CD burnt but no file in it?
I made a Bootable XP ISO to make some XP CD. When I write them to blank CD, it writes successfully (ie, no error reported) but after writting there was no file on the CD.
I tried 7 CDs and all ...
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Is it possible to burn DVD as audio CD? [closed]
Is it possible to burn DVD-R or DVD+R or DVD-RW so that at least SOME devices treat it as audio CD? In principle?
UPDATE
I don't mean to burn DVD as DVD so that DVD-aware devices can read it. I mean ...
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backup original CD to play in as Audio CD without problems
I have original CD which I use to teach Aerobic Classes. Every time I play them on the gym they get some scratch, so I make a copy of original and play copy instead. I keep original for a copyright ...
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USB Mass storage driver as CDROM in Windows & MAC
I am in the process of enumerating a Hybrid ISO image which will show up as CDROM in Windows & MAC and encountered with the following problem.
Hybrid ISO image is created with the following ...
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Can a DVD production be burned to a CD-ROM [closed]
Assuming the size of a DVD-encoded program does not exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM, can the CD-ROM function as a DVD? Wouldn't DVD players have a problem reading it?
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How can I copy files from a scratched CD/DVD?
I have so far tried the following software solutions without success.
Windows Explorer Copy (default)
TeraCopy
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
Unstoppable Copier stops copying as a whole, it keeps ...
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ImgBurn fails to burn data CD-R disk due to “Layouts do not match” error
I have a reoccurring problem with the program ImgBurn. Whenever I try and burn anything to a CD-R using ImgBurn it burns just fine, except for when I go and verify the disk. It tells me that the ...
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Dell Inspiron 1420 CD/DVD drive not able to write
I am using Dell Inspiron 1420, OS is Windows Vista, since the last 4 years.
Recently, my CD/DVD drive has developed some problems. It can read the CD/DVD, but when I try to write on a CD or DVD, it ...
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Looking for cd always on and mechanical sound- how can I stop this?
I am having this strange thing with my cd-rom. Everytime I turn the pc on, or connect an external HD, or even launch winamp, it makes that annoying mechanical sound that kinda means it is looking for ...
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Unpack audio files from StarForce protected container
I have a CD, on the CD there is an application which plays back some audio (there are 94 tracks in total)
The application requires star force driver to be installed to run. But I need to listen that ...
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Burning / copying CD to improve playback
I want someone to explain to me why burning/copying some scratched CDs to a new disk, can improve the new disk's playback.
Situation
Borrowed a public CD with songs for playback, was scratched, and ...
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win7 PC can't read CD-Rs?
I have a win7 64-bit system that cannot read burnt CD-R's (even ones it burnt itself!). How can I troubleshoot and correct this?
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Can I rely on CDs and DVDs for storage when I copy them without errors?
I have old CD and DVDs. I am copying the files I have on these discs to my hard drive, but can I be sure that these files are not broken? I copy these files with no errors and don't want to keep the ...
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Reading Data from the Entire Surface of a CD, DVD
Is it possible to retrieve data from the entire surface of a compact disc.
Suppose a CD written with 300MB of data where the remaining 400MB is blank. Normally, computer doesn't bother with the ...
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Update TSSTcorp CDDVD Drivers
I've got installed a DVD-Writer:
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-216AB
Windows says me that the installed Drivers are current (6.1.7600), but another website tells me the newest driver is more than 7.x and from ...
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Full Control Over CD/DVD burning [closed]
Suppose I want to burn just the 6000th byte(if thats not possible say the 10th sector) on a CDR without touching anyother region. Sounds possible but is there any tool to accomplish this.
Yeah sure, ...
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Are there differences between installing Linux from USB or CD?
What are the differences between the following two scenarios?
copying the content of a Linux ISO file to a USB drive (with the dd command), then booting from it
burning the ISO to CD, then ...
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Why UNetbootin for USB but not CD-RW? [closed]
Usually, if I want to make a bootable CD for linux (Ubuntu. Mint, Debian, whatever) I just burn the ISO to CD and then restart the machine that I intend to install linux on with that CD inside it.
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run software that requires cd
I have an application (that I paid for a long time ago) that runs only when the CD is in the drive. At the time of purchase it was annoying but I could live with it.
Now however I have a system ...
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Windows 7 is not recognizing the UDF filesystem of a CD
I have a UDF CD that I recently received, but I cannot use it.
The disc reads fine, but when I open it, I see a single README.txt, that tells me the disk is UDF-formatted, and I need a computer that ...
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How to burn visible image/text on data side of CD-R
This may be a very strange question.
I noticed that a burned CD-R and an empty CD-R is different if you watch the recording surface carefully. Now I want to burn some words (visible to human but not ...
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My DVD-ROM doesn't read anything and it is not shown in Device manager. What to do?
Suddenly my LG DVD-ROM stopped working. the bulb is blinking when i put DVD/CD in it, but nothing else happens. I can't see it in Device Manager either. What to do?
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2012: Is Burrrn still the best freeware Audio CD burning software for Windows? [closed]
It's been ages since Burrrn has been updated - 2006 was the date of last revision, and I wonder if there's anything now to supplant it as the recommended freeware windows burner.
Personally I've had ...
