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Hard drive seen as UDF or CDROM???
Hi,
I couldn't find any Part. Magic 8 (Win 2000) forums, so I'm trying here. After installing a new 80 gig drive (3rd in system) and resizing it with Part. Magic 8, I got a message saying I had "inserted a drive that needed a UDF reader", and whether to install a Reader. In My Computer, the drive-1st partition only- has a UDF icon on it and when I double-click, it asks to install a UDF reader. I can explore the drive and save to it. Any idea what's going on?? The other partitions on this "UDF" drive are fine. Also, the affected partition gives me an Autoplay option when I right click on it, as if it were a CDrom drive.. Peter Cowie |
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But the drive that Windows and PM8 is seeing as a CDrom (actually as a CDR,
because it allows me to write to it) is not a CDrom drive, but a hard drive! I disconnected my CDrom and CDRW drives (one of each) during the hard drive install, since I would have needed 5 IDE ports. I've tried changing the drive to Active, logical etc, but it's still being seen as a CDrom drive and treated as a recordable drive.?? It also correctly reports the size of the drive(actually the Partition, since all other partitions are normal). Peter Cowie "Eric Legge" wrote in message ... Subject: Hard drive seen as UDF or CDROM??? From: "res0r89p" Date: 25/06/03 15:13 Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: Hi, I couldn't find any Part. Magic 8 (Win 2000) forums, so I'm trying here. After installing a new 80 gig drive (3rd in system) and resizing it with Part. Magic 8, I got a message saying I had "inserted a drive that needed a UDF reader", and whether to install a Reader. In My Computer, the drive-1st partition only- has a UDF icon on it and when I double-click, it asks to install a UDF reader. I can explore the drive and save to it. Any idea what's going on?? The other partitions on this "UDF" drive are fine. Also, the affected partition gives me an Autoplay option when I right click on it, as if it were a CDrom drive.. Peter Cowie Something weird is going on there because UDF is the Universal Disk Format used by CD writing software. - Easy CD Creator creates a disk that can be used in the same way as a CD-ROM disk is. CD-ROM disks are read-only, so you can't write to CDs created with Easy CD Creator. Even if you copy the files from the CD to the hard drive, they will be set to read-only. You have to right-click on each file, click Properties, and then uncheck the Read-only box. However, the Universal Disk Format (UDF) allows you to write to CDs in the same way as you can write to floppy disks, but you need to use software that can use this format. Adaptec's Direct CD is a program that provides this facility. Note that the computer to which you want to transport the database has to have CD-writing software installed on it that can handle UDF. It is not advisable to access a database directly from a recorded CD, because database software writes to many different records in various parts of the file, and, because of the nature of CDs, accessing the information will be very slow as the blocks of data are copied to the hard drive, Windows finds the relevant data within them, and then brings it to the screen. The best method is to copy all of the files to the hard drive, work on it there, and then copy the modified version back to the CD. This method is especially effective when using CD-R disks that can only be written to once. Eric, PC Buyer Beware! http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/BuyerBeware.htm |
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