CD-R Question

[Juggalo15]

As Everyone knows half of the damn .iso's or .bin's (back-ups of course :aim ) take up like 740 Mb on cd. Now some of the ones I have run across have now taken up too 760 mb's. I was wondering if there is a place to get cdr's that are above the 700 mb burning level. Also I know about O/B its just that usually allowed you to do very little over 700 but does help.

Thanks in advance too any help.

btw i did google but there is soo much trash and illrelivant information on there know....geez...I figured asking you all would be quicker and prolly more cost efficient to me.

[DainBramaged]

.iso and .bin uses a different file system to store data on the CD, so the "normal" limitation of 700 MB does not apply. You can easily store something like 780 MB in the .iso/.bin format on a standard 700 MB CD.

[Juggalo15]

Wow, I have never heard of that before and thank you. Now before I try that do I need overburn turned on in nero or just go along with my normal burning?

[CCSDUDE]

Just so you know...

A) You can't burn 'data' discs with the bigger iso/bin/nrg file as the file systems and error checking are different.

B) If you don't wanna waste a disc...go check out Alcohol120 or FantomCD or Nero or hell...grab the best app for the job. Daemon tools...

[Juggalo15]

could you explain a little more, am I able to burn a .iso on a cdr thats above the 700mb limit or not...I seem to be a lil confused.

[g-smooth2k]

I know Alchohol is a DVD* / CD emulation and burning software.
Also Supports the highest number of possible image file types including - MDS, CCD, BIN, CUE, ISO, CDI, BWT, BWI, BWS, BWA & many more...
"It combines CD recording with CD emulation in a way
that hasn't been done before."
I looked up Alchohol and seems to be a shareware app.
I also want to burn an image more than 700MB on a CD-R Disc too.

Alchohol available Here

[Juggalo15]

I guess I forgot to mention the cd that I have backed up can not be played in windows so using a virtual drive just will not do, i need it burnt to a cd.

[g-smooth2k]

Can get Phantom Here
Fantom CD is a program that reads CDs and runs programs without the original CD by creating virtual CD-ROM drives on the hard disk using software methods.

This emulator allows you to run CD-ROM applications from your hard drive or network server. On your hard drive you can establish and access up to 31 different virtual CD-ROM drives.

What is a "Virtual CD-ROM Drive" ?

A Virtual CD-ROM drive emulates the functionality of the CD-ROM drive on your computer by applying emulation technology. You can use it as if it was a real CD-ROM drive. Tasks performed by a traditional CD-ROM drive can be done by virtual CD-ROM drives. In addition, the virtual CD-ROM drive has many user-friendly functions that are not provided by a normal CD-ROM drive. For example:
A real CD is not required to be inserted when running a program, so you can avoid the inconvenience of carrying a lot of CDs with you when you are working.
Compared to an actual CD-ROM drive, virtual CD-ROM drives are up to 200x faster!

[Juggalo15]

Still Haven't answered my question, though thanks for the ideas....

[CCSDUDE]

Still Haven't answered my question, though thanks for the ideas....

How about you..

1) Insert a blank CDR/RW disc into your CDRW drive...
2) Select 'test' or whatever your program uses to describe a simulated burn....and burn it!

Edit: Obviously you'll be burning in 'image mode' with whatever software you use....

[mrdingaling]

You can get CD-R's that hold around 860MB (or 99 minutes) of data from most retailers like ebuyer.

As has already been mentioned, standard 700MB CD-R's actually hold around 800MB of raw data. For example, if you download an 800MB .MPG file, it's likely a single VCD, and you could use nero to create a VCD on a 700MB CD-R with it.
The same applies to .ISO and .BIN files, so as long as they are under 800MB you should not have problems burning images from them.

[g-smooth2k]

So you can burn 860MB of an ISO image and that is overburn. But I thought that a CD-R holds up to 700MB.
So that means it is ok to burn an image of the 860MB size.

[mrdingaling]

a 700MB CD-R will take an 800MB .ISO.

[Rally99]

ISO's and all the other large image type files will fit when you burn them to disk. They had to come from an original disk that is only normal size so by deduction you should find that those files will fit when you burn them back on to a normal CDR. AVI's and such that are that big won't fit and you need a program like avi chop to split them. Hope this clears it up

[g-smooth2k]

Even a ISO image that is like 800MB will fit on a any CD-R brand right ummm.
using Roxio Easy CD Creator, Record Now, and/or Nero.

:mellow