Vista & CDRW

Discussion in 'Software' started by studiot, Mar 27, 2007.

  1. studiot

    studiot MajorGeek

    I am interested to hear from those lucky(?) souls with Vista about support for rewritable drives, CDRW and DVDRW. Does it work without extra software and does anyone know what versions of UDF (if any) Vista supports.

    Thanks

    Studio T :wave
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Supports Read & write UDF 1.02, 1.50, 2.0x, 2.50, (Read) 2.60 natively.

    But I still prefer Nero 7 and InCD for UDF/drag n drop
     
  3. studiot

    studiot MajorGeek

    Thank you, Halo. Much appreciated.

    Despite all programs 'conforming to standard' in the past I have found incompatibilities with cdrw written by InCd, directCD and B'sclip.

    That is without DVDRAM as written by Hitachi, Panasonic an LG.

    Studio T
     
  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Yes they all tend to have quirks, I found worst ones with Roxio, which is why I stuck with InCD, seems they all have a different tak eon what the standards actually mean!!!


    this is the only flaw I have read about with Vista and UDF http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927131
     
  5. studiot

    studiot MajorGeek

    Does this mean that Vista can actually format a udf disk?

    Studio T
     
  6. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

  7. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    HI Studiot

    Just to follow up, all you need to do is to pop in a blank CD/DVD/RW and goto Computer > double click the drive with blank disk in and then your given a box called Burn to Disk, in this one click the Show Formatting Options > under Live File System click Change Version and choose the UDF version format you want and clcik Next and follow the prompts.

    images of the menu locations

    http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/936/untitledhm8.jpg
     
  8. studiot

    studiot MajorGeek

    Thanks halo. I went to your link, moseyed round the site a little, and thought What a good job Microsoft have done obfuscating the issue.

    Your latest post however says it all in no time.

    If I am reading things right microsoft have hijacked the UDF format and called it Live file system.?

    I am really interested in the performance of DVDRAM under Vista as I find them super reliable, unlike DVDRW types.

    I note that microsoft only list some Hitachi-LG RAM as compatible and panasonic, who invented it are listed as unknown.


    Studio T
     
  9. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Yeah your right they have called the main title of what we know as UDF ( Packet Writing ) as a Live File System, then to all intense and purpose the actual format is just whichever UDF version you wish from my original list of whats supported.


    Yep thats why I came back to the thread when I got home to take some screenies as yes it a bit aroudn the houses in its description.

    not used DVDRAM apart from on a DVDTV Recorder we have in the house, just not used them on PCs, depends as to supported drives which makers have bothered to go through WHQL to be signed off... many are pending usually.
     

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