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Name: doc
Date: September 27, 2003 at 14:23:50 Pacific
OS: xp pro
CPU/Ram: plenty

Comment:

I myself havent sprung into the dvd writer thing yet but since prices are getting acceptable I suppose it will be soon. My question is since a dvd disk will hold about 4 gigs of data, if you burn data to a dvd disk can you read and transer that data on another computer using a cd drive instead of a dvd player? I am wanting to make a rather large installation cd of all my favorite programs and data and use it with new installations so I need the space of a dvd disk but want to be able to install them using a cd drive. Does dvd work this way?

Name: Matt
Date: September 27, 2003 at 14:49:53 Pacific

Reply:

Every computer you want to use this disk in has to have a DVD drive. You can't use a DVD disk in a standard CD drive.

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Name: doc
Date: September 27, 2003 at 15:28:45 Pacific

Reply:

Thanks for the reply even though thats not what I wanted to hear.

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