Small CD Writer 1.12:

No installation;
Simple interface;
Drag-n-drop support;
Recording/Building ISO-image support ;
Size= 320 Kbytes;
and, of course, FREEWARE.


Now on English...

Download English version here: http://ordoss.programist.ru/scdwriter112eng.rar



SCDWriter.inf



SCDWriter_nu2menu.xml



SCDWriter.htm



Any comments? post its here

Hmm... NextMail.ru server (programist.ru)now have some problems... I try to use other free hoster... plz wait...

@oRDoSS
Are you the author of the program ?

the readme files provided with the rar archiv explains that he is not the coder but the translator

anyway, it seems to be a very usefulll tools: light, simple to backup files. perfect for an emergency CD!

thanks!

Mirror: http://www.ordoss.nm.ru/other/scdwriter112eng.rar

Because mirror hoster uses antileech protection, please download file in browser (NOT ReGet, FlashGet, etc.)

@oRDoSS
the program is fine.
but your xml-file is not correct.
here the modified file.

-------------------------------------------------------------
<!-- Nu2Menu entry for Small CD Writer -->
<NU2MENU>
<MENU ID="Programs">
<MITEM TYPE="ITEM" DISABLED="@Not(@FileExists(@GetProgramDrive()\Programs\SmallCD\SCDWriter.exe))" CMD="RUN"
FUNC="@GetProgramDrive()\Programs\SmallCD\SCDWriter.exe">Small CD Writer</MITEM>
</MENU>
</NU2MENU>
-------------------------------------------------------------

Joshua

for xpe users
add this to SCDWriter.inf
-----------------------------------------
[Software.AddReg]
; only for XPE-Plugin
0x2,"Sherpya\XPEinit\Programs","Tools\SCDWriter","%SystemDrive%\programs\SmallCD\SCDWriter.exe"
-----------------------------------------

thanks Josh !

Wholly cow I can't believe how well that thing works for how small it is. Wait, didn't test it in BartPE, I'll get to it soon, but just testing it in WinXP it worked fine- I erased a CDRW and burned about 1MB of test files. I made an ISO image out of selected files and I burned it to disc successfully.

Even if it doesn't work in PE, it's still a handy little utility.

This is a great tool for the MiniCD fanclub (and for all others too)! Tested it extensively
with BartPE/BS-Explorer: Works fine! Unblievable 325KB compared to 5,6MB for Nero sfx.exe.

philon

Very useful utility with all basic functionality. Tested it, and works very well.

Thanks to the author and @oRDoSS for the English translation.
A remark: I noticed that the "Add folder ..." dialog still needs some English translation. @oRDoSS could you please have a look at it?

regards

I've tested the program about a half-dozen different ways. You should expect that if you have only one CD drive, and you have to take out your PE disk to put in a blank one, most times the system will lock up after you have performed whatever function it is you are doing. This has happened even when I waited until the very last step to erase a re-writable disk and immediately put back in the PE disk after it was done. I've tried it by running the program from off the BartPE CD and from the RAM drive.

However, in burning about 250MB of files and folders to a CD-RW disc, when I waited until the very last step before clicking the button to burn the image, then switching discs, click the burn button, then immediately putting the Bart PE back in after it was done, the system still kept working without locking up.

But even so, as long as it at least stays functional to do the burn and only locks up afterwards, that's good enough for me. BartPE is a recovery and maintenance tool and being able to burn off the files you need is good enough, even if you have to reboot it afterwards.

The Small CD writer is quite a fantastic program !

I've used it successfully in Windows XP and in Bart's PE.

Thanks, oRDoSS.

That's one reason I invested in a USB/Firewire external DVD+/-RW. If I boot a system from WinPE (or its variants), I expect the internal optical drive to be locked in use and less than half of the systems I see have dual optical drives. With the USB/1394 device, plug it in and boot from the WinPE CD from the internal drive, and the external drive is seen just fine. (Tested with ERDC 2003 and Plextor PX-708UF). Plus nearly all systems have a USB connection and some newer ones have firewire as well, making the drive usable for almost all systems.

I have not yet added Nero or this plugin to a WinPE CD for burning tests yet, though.

ZC

Small CD-Writer v1.12

The English translation version by oRDoSS was not complete. I have added the appropriate English where necessary.

The Add folders dialog box translation is now in English.
The Create folder selection now makes an English New Folder
The Erase disc dialog box has a new English message.

You can download the fully translated version HERE

Enjoy,

DW

@DigiWiz
thank you!
who makes the German translation ?

Joshua

Big THX for the new Translated version.
The other link from ordoss is not working for me.


@ Joshua
are you german too ?
Like me ;P


greetz
Neophyte

@Neophyte
yes i am german too.

Joshua

Sorry for OffTopic.

@ Joshua
Nice, so I'm not alone.
Schöne Grüße aus München.

Neophyte

BiG thanks Josh for fix XML and adding support XPE.



Now I have 210Mb Digitex 10xRW... 160 mb used...
I packed everything with UPX 1.25 (batch, of course), include some i386 and subfolders files, on my minicd and delete all files, without which the programs worked...

Of course, who can translate this program on other languages - please do it!

Just as a side note, I remember reading in another thread where someone said he burned his BartPE image onto a CD, but he did not close the session. He then was able to boot off the CD, then burn additional information onto the same BartCD while it was still in the CD writer drive without having to take out the BartPE CD. Handy little trick if you don't have an extra CD device to burn too or boot off of.

Analyst, sounds like an idea to put the BartPE on a RW disc (either cd or dvd rw) this way you can use that disc to boot up and keep creating multisessions.

In theory yes, but I have a lot of trouble booting off of CDRW media. I do use CDRW a lot for testing images with new plugins I've added, then I burn them to CD-R when they are finished. Sometimes I have to try and boot off a CDRW disc 3 or 4 times before it boots up properly, because it will stop with error messages in different places, but it's not an image problem because I burn the same image onto a CD-R and it boots up just fine (and faster, too).
I use pretty recent hardware, a Dell P4 OptiPlex, Samsung CDRW, and Memorex CDRW media. I've used Nero, DeepBurner, and Roxio to burn images to disc, but the results are usually the same- the CD-R media boots up better and faster than the CDRW media. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this.

I also have problems with booting from CDRW, specialy with 700mb CDRW. In most cases, BIOS just jump over CD, and boots from HDD.

I agree with Analyst. Cd-rw media just doesn't work as well as cd-r. I have been messing around with packet writing to a cd-r. Not with in-cd or directcd but with deepburner. Multi-sessions on a cd-r.

I just started doing it in the last month or so and so far no failures. Yet. Once the disk is full, I copy everything back to the harddrive and then master a cd and close it. It is a bit of a waste of cds but it seems to be the only decent way that hasn't failed for me yet.

Like Analyst said earlier about not closing the cd. I am thinking this is what was done. A multi-session cd. After you did everything you wanted to do, you could copy the cd to the hdd and burn a closed copy.

Thank you for small cdwriter and full translation.

Hi all,
I had this problem with both the CDR and CD-RW type of disks !
I have tried a lot of different makes of disks and have found that some makes are not good in older CD's and CDwriters.
The most consistent make is Verbatim DataLifePlus.
For CD-RW's I now use Verbatim 700MB 2x-4x compatible.
These work well for me.

@All,
I'm sure the problem has nothing to do with the CD-RW.

1. I have 3 different burners and I'm using generic 700Mb 12x CD-RW. I notice that on some of the CRDW or CDR are sometimes stuffed - not booting but the burned with ASUS one is always 100% ok.
2. In addition - to save time I am always burning the new CDRW through the network using the Nero from PC running XPE and than after it finish I'm re-starting the PC. Always working OK.
3. Now I am using 90 min - 800Mb Laser CD. Nero is able to record 94min on that CD so I am overburning with it. My last CD has 816Mb and is working properly.

Because I still had guarantee on my other burner (lite-on 11.5 months!) I just received new one. Now it works correctly and the 12x CD-RW is always burning OK.

Conclusion: it's not the CD-RW or CDR - it is the burner. The older it is the less power of burning from the CD laser.

I use Verbatim 32X 650MB CD-RW created on a Plextor Premium drive burnt at 32X. I have no problem booting from them in both the Premium drive and my Plextor 12 X DVD drive.

I use NEC ND-2500A with dual layer support, write boot discs on cd-r/rw, and DVD+-R/RW. I have no problems with RW media, CD or DVD.

Additionaly, I use Digitex MiniCDRW 10X in Sony CRX120E , Sony CRX 220E1
and some others recorders and readers. No problems...

Hi All,

I think the point that I was trying to make was missed.
The CD-RW disks in particular are constantly being improved on as the new hardware comes out, to take advantage of the new kit.
Sadly though this does mean that these are no longer optimized for the older kit.
For those of us not lucky enough to have the up to date hardware, an older slower burn type of disk is better for compatibility. This is also the case if the disks are to be used in the maintainance of older machines.
Basicly if you are having trouble with machines not booting from or reading your disks, try some older slower burn type disks!

Hallo at all !

This Thread is 2 month old, but I have a question about Small CDWriter. I'm looking for a english version of this program. But I can't find a valid link for download
Knows anybody such a link? Please tell it here. Thank you so much.

http://ordoss.programist.ru/scdwriter112eng.rar

this is a 1.12 version, 1.31 is on line but none have translated it.

@ReD Thanks again

Hi Guys,

I use BartPE / XPE for testing and repairing PC's so it's important for me to have a wide as possible compatibility with all PC types.

I have found that not all CD-ROM drives will boot from CD-RW disks. The one which fail seem to be older makes and models (in older PC's generally).

Most CD-RW drives seem to be able to handle booting from CD-RW disks, as do DVD-ROM and DVD-RW drives.

For maximium compatibility I therefore always burn my working BartPE / XPE to a CD-R disk.

Kind Regards

PsiMoon

SCWriter has a new version.

How in the world did ordoss edit the Russian into English. sourcecode?

@DigiWiz,

Your link to the fully translated version of SCDWriter is not working.

Do you have another link, or does someone have a link to the fully translated done by DigiWiz?

@solara
Link in my previous post is now fixed for v1.12 (lost all my files on server recently)
Download HERE

DW

@DigiWiz - 1.3x versions have protected resourses, i unpack program, but cannot change any resourse. Additionaly, author says: "you may NOT modify any resourses, include translations on other languages..."
If you have unprotected exe, plz send to me -> ordoss[at]narod[dot]com, i have spare time and may translate SCDWrtiter.
Interesno, ti 4to, znaesh russkiy yazik? mojet togda i pisat' tebe mojno na nem? Esli tak, to togda na licenzii k proge mojesh zabit'

@ALL: Current version 1.33, in about dialog 1.31, but have some IMPORTANT bugfixes and additional features.

Other peoples, you may yse Sateira CD/DVD Burner, it's shareware, works without install, have 600Kbytes.exe and "nero5.x" interface for data recording

http://www.sateira.com

For those who wants the 1.12 version in english, i host it here:

ftp.redflag.dyndns.org
port 1973
user anonymous
(use passive mode if problem.)



This account has limited brandwith and limited simultaneous login.

I let this open until tomorrow.

I just tried the 1.12 version. It is a very nice little program! From my notebook, I wrote a PE3 iso image onto the a CD+RW. The writing completed ok. However, the disk is not bootable, it simply shows the .iso as a file on the CD. Is there a way to persuade the program to write the true bootable pe?

BTW, my Toshiba notebook has has another factory installed writer prgram which prevents Nero 5.5 (I installed) from writing to the disk directly. But the little cd writer is capable of accessing the drive directly, bypassing the installed program!

I've used it many times to burn my PE ISO to disc... did you do the following?



DW

@ cqz

1.3 is the only version that write the boot sector properly (no emulation 4 sectors, etc)
1.12 will not produce bartpe bootable

@DigiWiz

Thank you very much. I had not tried that sequence. I will let you know.

@mojojojo627
With 1.12 did you try DigiWiz's method? Perhaps the reliability of iso writing is device dependent?

I have noticed that some of my CD+RW media becomes unreliable after a number of rewrites. Some brands of disks appear worse than others. When there are read errors, if I do a FULL ERASE (used Nero 5.5) as opposed to a Quick Erase, very often the problems go away. I understand that the full erase reformats the disk, and configures out bad sectors. Have you tried this with your bad +RW disks?

@ReD

Can you help me to get to the specific url for the 1.3x version download? When I go to the Russian site posted elsewhere in this thread, my Russian is 00 and I dont know how to navigate to download the 1.3x. Thank you!

@Cqz
You can load new versions always here: http://www.avtlab.ru/
http://www.avtlab.ru/scdwriter.zip

Joshua

Hello Joshua,

i can only find the russian Version (1.3x)

michel

only the russian exists.

the previous v.122 or whatever, it did not have a tweak proof exe, so, a kind fellow in this forum did some translation work for us all.

problem is, we now need source code, and we would violate intellectual property law by breaking open the latest release. (the author put the clamp down on that one).

so,...have fun quessing in russian for the latest and greatest SCDWriter. unless the original author translates, there's no chance.

@DigiWiz
That appears to work fine on two machines here for buring bpe iso. Thank you veyr much!

@Joshua


That was funny The new version is not quite 1:1 with older menus, so I cannot really use it. At the first attempt I erased (overworte) my iso file Well, 1.12 appears to work ok.

@DigiWiz thanks for the updated link.


As for version 1.3, maybe if enough people write to the author, she/he will put out an English verison.

Report here:
http://www.avtlab.ru/report.htm

or email here:
avt@avtlab.ru

Not sure if the author reads English, but it's worth a shot. And maybe if anyone here can write Russian, they can email the author as well.

@solara: Heh, i wrote my first mesage to AVT six month ago. I wrote: i can translate into english, I do not need sources..." No way, no answer...

Additionaly, since version 1.3x, Program resourses is crypted.
Author know english, and can read all mesages.