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beware of windows vista written dvds with compression for backups....
For over a year I've been using emusic.com to download all kinds of alternative electronic and ambient music. Along with some other CDs that I've ripped to mp3, the collection is now a few gigabytes in size. I wanted to remove all the files so that some disk defragmentation could do a better job to consolidate my files. So I took all my emusic.com downloaded mp3 collection zipped it into four or so zip files, then blasted it all onto 3 dvds with windows vista dvd writing.... Now I'm trying to put the files back, and 3 out of 4 of the zip files are unreadable, either unknown compression, or windows vista itself claiming the disks are blank when I insert them. One of the zips I copied off to another drive, it is claiming unknown compression on XP. Took the file back to the Vista machine which has winzip, and winzip can't read the file. The file never gave an error while copying it off the disk on win xp.
So it seems vista's dvd writing really sucks... This HP Pavillion tx1000 tablet-pc with Windows Vista machine came with roxio, but 3/4ths of the time roxio won't start up. It gives some exception on startup then shuts itself off immediately. Sometimes I can get it to load by double clicking an iso image, but that didn't even work the other day.... I gave up and used Windows Vista disk writing. Now I'm wishing I didn't.