Thread: Files Refuse To Budge

try a stronger magnet

Try fire. Fire always works.

Lol. Ever put a CD in the microwave? Best light show you've ever seen.

ok, before you get a torrent of useless crap

CD-R is write once only
once it's written, that's it - the data's on there for good

CD-RW, on the other hand, can be erased
I'm not sure if Windows can do it natively

Which do you have? (It should say on the face of the CD)
CD-R or CD-RW?

*edit*
Oh, and CD's (and dvd's / hd-dvd / bluray / etc.) are optical, not magnetic
so magnets have no effect on them
The "burning" comes from a laser burning tiny holes in the surface (burned hole = 1, non-burned bit = 0)

On CD-RW, there's a film of melty stuff
"erasing" a CD-RW, means melting the melty stuff, so it fills up the previous write's holes

Get CD-RW ONLY.

Or a Flashdrive or something.

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

Get CD-RW ONLY.

careful,
most "normal" CD players can't read rewritables

Rewritables can only be read back in other rewritables

I'll bear that in mind

CD-RWs for backups and stuff (or better still, USB)
CD-Rs for music

Yeah it's CD-R.

Right, thanks!

Originally Posted by Super Duck

Yeah it's CD-R.

You can't erase the data on it

Would I be able to get music off it in my 360?

Originally Posted by Super Duck

Would I be able to get music off it in my 360?

yeah, just copy it

(never owned an xbox, so I'm assuming there's no special voodoo needed just to copy stuff onto it)

Originally Posted by Ynot

try a stronger magnet

Ynot is wrong about a technical post

CDs are optical, not magnetic. CD-Rs are written by the heat of the laser changing the chemical properties of them. Magnets won't do a thing no matter how powerful (unless it's strong enough to overpower the nuclear strong force )

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Ynot is wrong about a technical post

read the rest....

and I am wrong on occasions
(I've even admitted to being wrong)

I got all excited that I found a mistake

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I got all excited that I found a mistake

well, you're forgiven
in a rare moment, I forgot my dry humour /stroke/ suspense building characteristic poly-ellipse sentence ending....
which was probably what threw you

also, I just found out I've never said the word "s-o-rry", ever
(I was looking for any thread where I'd admitted a fault)

I've never said s-o-rry
and I'm never going to!!

*edit*
well, I didn't believe it
and apparently, according to the forum search, no-one has said sorry, ever

BUG


*edit 2*
not "wrong" per se
but I did find a thread where the guy didn't seem to impressed
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=43557

The search does seem to look through the entire post because when I searched "sorry" nothing came up even though you wrote it in the post above

Originally Posted by Ynot

read the rest....

and I am wrong on occasions
(I've even admitted to being wrong)

aha
So Vista's great, right.

Oh yeah.

Vista is pretty freaking amazing for Bullshit Crapware.

Like Internet Explorer and Windows 95

Like windows 95???
Are you mad? No comparison can be made! Win95 FTW.