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View Full Version : 800 meg CDR's what a pain!


zero5uk
10th May 2003, 01:42 PM
I recently downloaded some films too large for conventional 700meg CDR's so i thought......no problem il just buy some 800meg ones as i have heard they exist, but how wrong i was.

Apparently you need firware updates on your CDRW drive to make them compatible with the cdr's, just typical of PC's they dont like making things easy do they!

I have nero 5.5 but couldnt enable the overburn function (even though my mats_hita drive enables it) or get it compatible with 800 meg cdr's

So in the end i turned to a good friend called WINRAR, which i recommend to compact files. Films just over 700 meg eg 706-7 compacted to 700 fine, and even films near 800 were just split into 2 files on winrar so i could get it on 2 cd's and free my hardrive,

Im sure all you adept computer fans know this already but it was impressive to me ;)

The Mullet of G
10th May 2003, 01:52 PM
yup I hear you there, I've always used Winrar never rated Winzip or any of the other alternatives, thats a bit of a strange one with Nero not letting you enable overburn but I guess thats just Nero for you :)