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Cd-Rom in computer mangagement

Jan 18, 2012 8:14AM PST

Just a quick question, I hope. I'm formatting my external HDD and looking at all the volumes in computer management. Everything is NTFS which is fine but the cd-rom has CDFS in the file the system column.
Is this correct, the way it's supposed to be? My cd drive works fine and every where I've gone to find out about this all I get is my cd isn't working forum questions.
I'm finally getting my pc back working and I don't need anymore headaches after I clone my internal 80GB HDD to my 2TB internal HDD. I want to make sure every things ok before I start backing up and making the clone.
Thanks in advance!

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Not trying to confuse, but CDs use other file systems.
Jan 18, 2012 8:17AM PST
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Not quite what I meant.
Jan 18, 2012 8:38AM PST

I bookmarked that site for future use,there's good info there but I'm not talking about the files that are on a cd that you use to play music or install programs, I just want to know if the cd-rom drive itself is supposed to formatted to NSTF or is that kind of a dumb question. Can the cd HD even BE formatted?

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So far, NTFS is not available on CD file systems.
Jan 18, 2012 8:45AM PST

Due to differences and needs for optical media, NTFS is not a file system you'll find on CD or DVD media.

And of course one can format CD/DVD writeable media. Those are often using an UDF or UDFS (file system.)

And such are used for files and more. To cover the rest you would have to also include all the other information in the CDR FAQ. It's at http://www.cdrfaq.org/

May I ask why this came up? Is there something that needs fixing?
Bob

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Hopefully not anymore
Jan 18, 2012 9:32AM PST

I have been fixing/working on my pc for the last 5 days. I'm really bad about posting specs because I'm never sure what's needed, but since so far things are going my way with the pc for now I post the short version.

I have a rebuilt HP with:
Vista business 64bit, AMD Athlon 64x2 dual core processor 3800+ 2GHz
Samsung 80GB HDD ATA, Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD(will be my new HDD) Samsung 500GB in a Nexstar 3 external enclosure, ATA Radeon Xpress 1150, Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard. Everything else is standard.

The problem I've had/have still is ALL our user accounts had the user profile service service can't log in message, so I was booting from (maybe stupidly) from my Nexstar, which is actually my old HDD from my slimline that I cannabilized(sp?) when the power suuply died. That HDD ended up with BSOD so I finally started looking for answers to how to fix the user accounts. As of now I can only use the hidden Administrators acct., I set up in safe mode command prompt. I'm able to use it now in a regular boot mode, but even though I was able to create a new user acct. with admin priviliges I still got the user profile service I'm gonna ignore you message with the new account.

All our user accts in the profile lists in regedit had bak at the end and when I did create the new one it's not showing up. I was able to delete my son's but what 's the use of deleting the other 2 inaccessable one's if I still won't be able to use them.
So since I wanted to use my 2TB as my main HDD anyway I've been trying to backup and restore the original 80GB using the recovery CD's that came with this rebuild, but it's been so screwed up it wouldn't back up to my external or my other drive. And the recovery CD's won't work unless I have a backup. And the 80GB wouldn't create a backup using any kind of burning image.

After reading everything relating to every part of my problem I decided to erase my external since it had Vista home on it anyway and I saved all our files to my son's pc manually (ugh!)and now so far the 80GB is backing up to the external HD using Windows backup. When that's done I'm going to use the recovery CD's and then clone that to my 2TB with fingers crossed. I hope I made sense, I haven't had much sleep lately.

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Logging off now
Jan 18, 2012 9:35AM PST

The backup just finished so I'm going to cross my fingers and try the recovery cd's. Here goes nothin'!
Thanks for the great advice here by the way.