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To: Chas who wrote (14422)	12/29/2003 6:51:31 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

That's incorrect. The choice of NTFS as a file system for a hard drive volume has nothing to do with the ability or non-ability to read a CD. Further, you can choose to format each hard drive volume on your system with whatever file system you'd like. You can mix and match NTFS, FAT32, and FAT16 as you wish. This is a per-volume choice, not a per-system choice. There are many variations on CD formatting, depending on what third-party software you may have and what options you choose when you write the CD. The original format is called Orange Book. It allows recording a single "session" on a CD. A variation on that is Blue Book, which allows the recording of multiple "sessions". There are numerious further variations which allow you to record individual files without having to "close" a session. There also is a standard for creating bootable CDs. There can be problems with compatability between systems when using anything other than Orange Book or Blue Book where the last session has been closed. However, none of these options include or has anything to do with NTFS. What I am thinking that may have happened to you is that you created a CD on a system that happened to have a FAT32 hard drive volume, and you formatted it in such a way that it was unreadable on another system that happens to have a NTFS hard drive volume. However, the real problem is not the file system used on your hard drive, but the options used to write the CD. (For maximum cross-system compatability, always record "track at a time", and "close session".)