Burning a CD
I just installed a hard drive as a back-up drive or slave in order to help my
friend get some data off of the drive. Now when I try to copy the files that are selected, 43 selected items, it says that the disk is protected. This drive is a 6 GB older drive Maxtor. He was having problems with an error coming, error #3343 if I recall correctly. Now this drive my friend was using was the only drive in the PC and was being used as a master. So, I figured if I installed it as a slave I could get around the error message that wouldn't allow him to get past booting it. Well, it worked. I have it installed in my PC that is running Window 98 SE because his PC was running Windows 98 also. I don't think it matters though if I'm using it as a slave what OS is running on it, right? I didn't want to take the chance. That's why both OS are Windows 98. I don't understand what I have to do to burn this CD. Copy or should Cut and then Paste it somewhere, if so, where would I paste it? I need some help here. I've built my share of PCs and fix many more. But when it comes to burning CDs I'm kinda a noobie. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, attilathehun1 -- attilathehun1 |
Burning a CD
You need burner software (DirectCD, Nero or one of the many others)
installed and then you follow the directions for that software. There is no burner capability native to W98. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "attilathehun1" wrote in message ... I just installed a hard drive as a back-up drive or slave in order to help my friend get some data off of the drive. Now when I try to copy the files that are selected, 43 selected items, it says that the disk is protected. This drive is a 6 GB older drive Maxtor. He was having problems with an error coming, error #3343 if I recall correctly. Now this drive my friend was using was the only drive in the PC and was being used as a master. So, I figured if I installed it as a slave I could get around the error message that wouldn't allow him to get past booting it. Well, it worked. I have it installed in my PC that is running Window 98 SE because his PC was running Windows 98 also. I don't think it matters though if I'm using it as a slave what OS is running on it, right? I didn't want to take the chance. That's why both OS are Windows 98. I don't understand what I have to do to burn this CD. Copy or should Cut and then Paste it somewhere, if so, where would I paste it? I need some help here. I've built my share of PCs and fix many more. But when it comes to burning CDs I'm kinda a noobie. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, attilathehun1 -- attilathehun1 |
Burning a CD
Ron Badour wrote:
You need burner software (DirectCD, Nero or one of the many others) installed and then you follow the directions for that software. There is no burner capability native to W98. If it is only a 6G drive & if you have space on your drive it would be faster to import the data to your drive in a folder identified for your friend. Then put the new drive in as a slave also, after it has been setup on your friends machine, & just transfer the files back. You could also do it directly to the new drive if they were both in your machine at the same time. If any of the drives are partitioned extra attention needs to be paid to the drive letters and which physical drive they really reside on. Win98 assigns the letters and they cannot be changed the way they can in Win2k, NT, XP, etc. Do not wipe the files off the old drive until you know they are all checked good on the new drive whether they are transferred (drive to cd to drive) or (drive to drive). Things can happen. Win98 assigns the letters as C for the primary partition on the first boot drive then D, E, etc. for the primary partitions on each of the additional physical drives. After all primary partitions have been given a drive letter W98 comes back and looks at all the logical drives in the extended partition of the first drive (if it has been partitioned) then goes to the 2nd drive etc. Not complicated once you know about it but if you do not you will want to google (drive partitioning) and read up on it. Most drives are all one volume under windows which is very wasteful of space for the larger drives. Partitioning into smaller drives (logical on the one physical drive not physical drives) provides much better use of the space. A 1 byte (character) file on a large drive can take as much as 64,0000 bytes of space. The system has many hundreds of files less than 2,000 bytes in size resulting in a huge waste of space. Making a smaller partition can reduce this to 2,000 bytes, or less, per file. If a file is 2,500 bytes in size it would take 4,000 bytes of space. These are rounded and not the true number actually assigned. All of this depends on the OS being run and the format being used on the disk. A 2Gig drive can be reduced to on 512 Bytes while 24Gig would be 4,000 Bytes & 98Gig would be 16,000 Bytes, etc. These represent the minimum amount of drive space allocated per file. Larger files will take as many allocated spaces as are needed for the size of the file with the remaining amount of the last allocated space being left empty. This may be a long read but it gives you an alternative & possibilities for the future. James |
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