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Making Data Discs Using DirectCD
■ Full Format: Full format takes about one hour for a 1x
drive. It verifies the integrity of the disc surface, prepares
the disc for data, and writes the UDF file system to the
disc. DVD+RW will perform a background format. This
allows the user to use the disc while this process occurs in
the background.
■ If you are formatting a previously used DVD-Recordable or
a blank DVD-RAM disc, you have two options:
■ Quick Format: Quick format takes only a few minutes. It
writes the DirectCD file system to the disc, but does not
verify the physical condition of the disc. Any files that
were on the disc will not be accessible, but they are still
on the disc.
■ Full Format: Same as described for the Full Format
option above. Any data that was on the disc will be
completely erased.
7 Click Start Format. Disc formatting begins and a progress
dialog box appears.
You can do other tasks on your computer while the disc is
being formatted. The CD Ready dialog box appears when
formatting is complete.
8 Click OK. The disc is ready for you to copy files to. See Copying
Methods on page 59.
Copying Methods
Once your CD is formatted and ready for data, you can copy files to
it a number of ways:
■ In Windows Explorer, drag and drop files onto the
CD-Recorder drive letter (it has an icon like this ).
■ Select Save As from any Windows program’s File menu and
select the drive letter of your CD-Recorder.
■ Use the Send To command by right-clicking a file in Windows
Explorer and then selecting the drive letter of your
CD-Recorder from the pop-up menu.
■ Use MS-DOS commands from a DOS window.