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School me on media authoring and coasters...

MugenmidgetMugenmidget Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
I'm sure a few people have had run in with bad burns when trying to write a CD-R/DVD-R. I don't know enough about their structures to understand how damning this failure is...

I do seem to see a darker region where a burn or attempted burn took place. Is there any possibility to burn on the "clean" region? If it's media specific then I'd like some explanations, I clearly don't know what I'm talking about. I'm just wondering if there's even a minute possibility.

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  • contrabandcontraband Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Well, data is written from the inside of the disc towards the outside. You can tell if a CD/DVD has been written to by a consumer-level device if you can see where the data "track" ends. And unless the media is explicitly "rewritable" and you have a compatible drive, the disc is shot.

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  • MugenmidgetMugenmidget Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    contraband wrote: »
    Well, data is written from the inside of the disc towards the outside. You can tell if a CD/DVD has been written to by a consumer-level device if you can see where the data "track" ends. And unless the media is explicitly "rewritable" and you have a compatible drive, the disc is shot.
    Hm, okay. Thanks a lot!

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    really, recordable media is so cheap right now there's no reason to risk it anyway. Just throw it out and move on.

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