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Should i use a DVD+RW as a Giant Floppy disk?

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:45 pm
by guyz92
Hi,

Recently i lost a Sandisk Cruzer Slice 4GB. All my data gone.

Now I am thinking of using DVD+RW with UDF 2.01 as a recoverable storage.
Since now most computer have DVD writer, why not be antique and use a DVD+RW as a giant floppy disk like last time where USB thumb-drive were expansive.

The only problem that windows XP need extra plugin to work correctly.
InCD 6.6 is needed to work well with UDF format on Windows XP.

InCD Download:
Windows 32bit
Windows 64bit

Any suggestion are welcome.

Re: Should i use a DVD+RW as a Giant Floppy disk?

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:33 pm
by NoobHacker
guyz92 wrote:Hi,

Recently i lost a Sandisk Cruzer Slice 4GB. All my data gone.

Now I am thinking of using DVD+RW with UDF 2.01 as a recoverable storage.
Since now most computer have DVD writer, why not be antique and use a DVD+RW as a giant floppy disk like last time where USB thumb-drive were expansive.

The only problem that windows XP need extra plugin to work correctly.
InCD 6.6 is needed to work well with UDF format on Windows XP.

InCD Download:
Windows 32bit
Windows 64bit

Any suggestion are welcome.
lol CD need to put in and wait the reader scans for a while,and writing data is very noisy and slower than pendrive..

Re: Should i use a DVD+RW as a Giant Floppy disk?

Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 12:18 pm
by iLostMyBallz
A CD Would be cheaper and u can make alot so if 1st cd gone gt 2nd cd ^^

Re: Should i use a DVD+RW as a Giant Floppy disk?

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:54 am
by wizme
what i suggest is no, some DVD-RW will just be destroyed after very few time of rewriting.

Re: Should i use a DVD+RW as a Giant Floppy disk?

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:32 pm
by guyz92
It is not using the standard method of using CDFS.

It uses UDF 2.01 which is written in packet data. So data lost is low. With Mt-Rainer options enable, data lost drops even more.

Anyway thx for the suggestion.

Re: Should i use a DVD+RW as a Giant Floppy disk?

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:53 am
by zamoth
U can use ERD comander to recover ur data its a live cd made by microsoft
option 2 u can use linux live cd (ubuntu its a good option)