George,
I will be honest with, I never paid any attention to the format. I just
let Nero take care of it based on what type of DVD I was making. So, I
don't have any recommendations.
I will look at the capability to format a hard drive to UDF, although I
don't know of any advantage to it at the moment.
George Valkov wrote:
> Hello Theo!
> Can you tell me what format is recommended for DVD+/-R disk at once:
> ISO9660 only;?
> ISO9660+UDF?
> UDF only?
> I currently use ISO9660+UDF and always finalyze the disk. I also change
> the book-type to DVD-ROM for DVD+R disks.
>
> Would You recommend me a good file-system driver to enable UDF support
> on XP/2k3? If you know of any that:
> 1: does not use/install any lower/upper filters on my DVD-burner.
> 2: does not need any service running in background
> please let me know. The 1: is because lower/upper filters cause a lot of
> pain and problems conflicting with CD/DVD burning software. 2: is for
> the same reason.
>
> I don`t know much about UDF. I know it`s used to make CDs DVDs behave
> more like a hard disk and to alow files larger than 2GB.
>
> Because of its name: Universal Disk Format I did expect it to be
> universal format - not just for optical media, but for others as well.
> My expectation were just proved to be right as the beta 2 and now the
> RC1 of Vista came out.
> Run Command Prompt either from Vista or from Vista Setup disk. type:
> format /?
> or
> format X: /FS:UDF /V:UDF-hard-disk /Q /X
> to see that UDF is now available for hard-disks. Now copy some files and
> folders on the disk, and restart to XP or 2003 server. You will be
> notified that you are runnig out of space on the disk, because XP/2k3
> does not have built-in write support for UDF (unless you have installed
> inCD). You still have read only access to any hard-disk using UDF from
> XP/2k3 system.
>
>
>
>> Your comment about "Target disk MUST be NTFS (and not UDF)" caught my
>> attention.
>>
>> "The Universal Disk Format (UDF) is a format specification of a file
>> system for storing files on optical media. It is an implementation of
>> the ISO/IEC 13346 standard (also known as ECMA-167). It is considered
>> to be a replacement of ISO 9660, and today is widely used for
>> (re)writable optical media. UDF is developed and maintained by the
>> Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA)."
>>
>> Did you mean to say "FAT or FAT32" instead?
>>
>>
>>
>> George Valkov wrote:
>>> Vista-RC1.Setup doesn`t like the partition I choosed for vista. It
>>> won`t let me know why, perhaps it wants me to play guessing :-) What
>>> a playfull setup!
>>>
>>> Whatever: I spent 5 hours moving disks, cables, switching jumpers and
>>> reformated the partition like 10 times to make it work. Cool!
>>>
>>> Reasons:
>>> ~ Target disk MUST be /dev/hda (primary master)
>>> ~ Target partition MUST be marked active (bootable)
>>> ~ Target disk MUST be NTFS (and not UDF)
>>> ~ Target disk MUST use default alocation unit (cluster) size. 64KB is
>>> not permited -- strange why? My primary installation is Windows
>>> 2003-SP1 enterprise server and boots from /dev/hda1 NTFS 64KB
>>> clusters. What's the largest supported cluster size by setup?
>>>
>>> Cheers, after the whole pain, setup accepted /dev/hda2 (primary
>>> master, partition 2). After the first setup phase, I moved the disk
>>> to /dev/hdd (secondary slave) and reconnected the two other dynamic
>>> disks. Setup completed successfully!
>>>
>>> Finally there are two more problems:
>>> 1. I used diskpart to change the target partition's drive letter to
>>> T:, but after the installation it was using C:. How do I force a
>>> custom drive letter?
>>> 2 How do I create a boot menu, to select startup partition at boot
>>> time? I want to choose between:
>>> /dev/hdd1 (windows server)
>>> /dev/hdd2 (windows vista)
>>> /dev/hdd3 (linux slackware)
>>> Please don`t tell me about 3rd party software. Can I do this from
>>> Vista or 2k3-server-SP1, or should I reconfigure the LILO (Linux
>>> Loader) and boot from the Linux partition?
>>>
>>> LEGEND:
>>> /hda is primary master
>>> /hdd is secondary slave
>>> /hdd1 is first partition on hdd and so on. I use the unix naming
>>> because it is short and precise.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am asking Microsoft to fix these problems for the final release of
>>> Vista. And if MS is to lazy to create a graphical interfase to
>>> formatting options and choosing drive letters, at least make sure
>>> that the diskpart.exe utility's settings and drive letter
>>> assignments) will take effect after installation. Can`t you simply
>>> offer the Disk Management console?
>
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