Burning Data CD/DVDs in Windows 7?

Mastered Disc Format is another name for a regular (ISO 9660 or CDFS) disc...

With a traditional ISO 9660 disc, you write all the files and then “finalize” the disc, after which you cannot add to or modify the disc...

I hope it helps.

It does not help at all.  In fact, it appears to be misleading if not incorrect.

The Mastered disk that I described in my previous post (did you read it?) remains **open** and can actually be used as the first session of a multi-session disk in more capable disk utilities (if you have them).  Too bad Microsoft apparently did not provide a means of either doing that or at least closing the disk! -- JCW2

Universal Disk Format (UDF) is a profile of the specification known as ISO/IEC 13346 and ECMA-167[2] and is an open vendor-neutral file system for computer data storage for a broad range of media

From http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/266027-mastered-file-disc-format.html:

"I used the Imgburn read mode & the Windows 7 data disc is UDF (1.02)."

This is the kind of answer I was seeking.  True? -- JCW2

Hello,

Thank you for your response.

ISO 9600 refers to as CDFS (Compact Disc File System).

It defines a minimal set of common file attributes (directory or ordinary file and time of recording) and name attributes (name, extension, and version), and used a separate system use area where future optional extensions for each file may be specified.

Universal Disk Format (UDF) is a profile of the specification known as ISO/IEC 13346 and ECMA-167[2] and is an open vendor-neutral file system for computer data storage for a broad range of media. In practice, it has been most widely used for DVDs and newer optical disc formats, supplanting ISO 9660

Mode 1 is for data, mp3 because it incorporates good error correction coding.

Mode 2 is only for vcd/svcd movie cd's.

Note: Mode 2-1 for data and Mode 2-xa for vcd/svcd.

Disk at once mode of recording directly burns all tracks without the laser taking any break in between. Hence this recording mode can use the full storage capacity of the disk. When creating a master disk for duplication, this is the recording mode used. This mode should be used when finalizing a disk in one writing session.

Using multiple sessions means that information can be written to the first part of the disk, and then later more information can be appended to it in the unused space left after the first session.

I hope this information helps.

Thank you

I would suggest you to refer to the articles to understand how to burn a CD and which format to use:

Burn a CD or DVD in Windows Explorer

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/burn-a-cd-or-dvd-in-windows-explorer

Which CD or DVD format should I use?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/which-cd-dvd-format#1TC=windows-7

Sorry, Rohit, but as you can see from my reference to the "Live File System" format in my OP, I had already read those articles before I posted.  They don't address my questions at all.  "Live File System" and "Mastered"don't have any meaning to me in the context of traditional CD/DVD terminology. -- JCW2

Hi,

I would suggest you to refer to the articles to understand how to burn a CD and which format to use:

Burn a CD or DVD in Windows Explorer

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/burn-a-cd-or-dvd-in-windows-explorer

Which CD or DVD format should I use?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/which-cd-dvd-format#1TC=windows-7

Hope it helps. If you have any further issues on the computer, please post your question regarding Windows and we will be happy to help you.