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How are commercial DVD's burned? [closed]
I'm not talking about the DVD-R's here. When you buy retail software and DVD movies from the store for example, how is that DVD burned onto the original disc? What would I need if I want to burn those ...
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Check if CD/DVD is Finalized
Is there a simple way to check if re-writable media has been finalized? So far the only recommendations I can find suggest that I attempt to start another write session using the disc and if it fails ...
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How to check if a blank DVD is damaged?
Today I burned a DVD, but when I insert it into my external DVD drive I am told that it is blank, but if I try to burn something else on it, it simply gets ejected.
The DVD in question is a -R Dual ...
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Why isnt the ISO I burned to a DVD bootable?
I downloaded an ISO of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit From Digital River to try to restore a laptop.
I downloaded the ISO and burned it to a Memorex DVD and tried to boot the laptop from it using the ...
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Use the 'fresh' / unused area of a rewritable DVD?
When re-using a rewritable DVD, I want to use the unused area of the disc.
So for example, when I burn a 1 GB Linux distro onto a rewritable DVD, and then burn other distro(s) onto the same DVD, it ...
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How do I close DVDs when burning on Windows 7?
When I burn DVDs using Explorer on Windows 7, there is no option of closing the DVD. This results in some MBs of free space after the DVD has been written (multisession). How do I close the DVD on ...
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Free commandline CD/DVD burner for Windows working without installation [closed]
I'm looking for a freeware CD/DVD, command-line burner for Windows without installation requirement. Found CommandBurner, but unfortunately it needs to be installed. Is there any portable alternative?
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When is it possible to use a DVD+/-R in instead of a CD-R?
When it comes to simple CD ISO images it is possible to burn them to a DVD+/-R, but what about the more general case? Is it possible to copy a CD with audio tracks to DVD+/-R? What about mixed mode ...
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How to check quality of CD/DVD before burning?
I recently bought a couple of DVDs to burn but majority of them turned as faulty DVDs. I came to know when the DVDs were not able to burn the data into them. Hence Is there a way by which I can check (...
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Burning Snow Leopard 10.6 DMG always fails
I'm trying to burn my Snow Leopard 10.6, a 6.5GB dmg file but it always fails with Burn, I don't have toast so I would like to fine a free way, how can I do?
Can I use the disk utility directly?
I'm ...
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BURN-Free and DVD burn quality
BURN-Free is the generic name of a feature some DVD burners have which helps avoid issues that result from a buffer underrun during burning. The feature is turned on by default, but is very rarely ...
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Can't write DVD disks on Matshita drive built into ASUS laptop: error 0x80040275
I have an ASUS N552VW laptop with the built-in MATSHITA BD-CMB UJ172 S drive. At some point I found that I can no longer write any DVD disks on this drive - DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, etc. The burn ...
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Write DVD video directly to an ISO (rather than disk) using Windows 7 DVD movie software
I am helping some volunteers create videos for funeral homes, and one of the DVD video software tools (FuneralOne) that they use requires a DVD to be burned each time.
In many events, we don’t want a ...
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Does a CD-R store information about the computer which created it? [duplicate]
I'm most interested about this in Windows computers. When you burn a CD or DVD, does the disc contain metadata or some other information about the computer which burned it (i.e., computer name, owner, ...
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Volume ID using mkisofs and cdrecord
I'm trying to specify the volume id of a cd/dvd when using mkisofs and cdrecord afterwards.
I figured out that there's an option -V volumeid of mkisofs. The manpage says that 32 characters can be ...