Posted by Stuart Miller on 12/16/06 03:30

<robinjoan@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Question I have, is why all 7 disks should become write protected
> at the same time. One thing did come to mind, and that is that I
> recently installed Roxio 9. It is possible that this could have had
> an effect on the disks.
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It is quite possible the roxio has changes their packet writing protocol,
and is does things differently enough to make the old dvd's incompatible.
First thing I would do is log which ones have been written since upgrading
Next would be to revert to old version of roxio and see if they are
readable/writeable

I would not chance adding information with a different version of
'drag-to-disc'. Given this problem, and potentially others, I would start
over.

For all the time it takes, re-record them. And again I suggest a complete
burn, not drag-to-disc'

Stuart








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> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:00:51 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Citizen Bob) wrote:
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>>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:27:32 GMT, "Stuart Miller"
>><stuart_miller@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>>DVD-RW was never intended to be a substitute for a hard drive, as they
>>>have
>>>a very limited lifespan.
>>
>>Tell me. I got at most 10 erasures from Verbatim 4x DVD+RWs. Others
>>have gotten even fewer. And that's with 2.4x burns.
>>
>>Fortunately they have gotten relatively cheap, I can get Verbatim 4x
>>at rima.com for around 75 cents in 100 lot. If I manage to get 10
>>burns, that's 7.5 cents per burn, which is a lot cheaper than DVD-R
>>which is 28 cents per burn (Taiyo Yuden 8x at rima.com).

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