CDRWIN was a CD/DVD burning software for

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developed by Golden Hawk Technology company. Once popular, CDRWIN's usage diminished due to the bundling of limited versions of other software packages, such as

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and Roxio Easy CD Creator, with new computers and

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s. The company behind original CDRWIN, Golden Hawk Technology, no longer exists.

Features

CDRWin opened to a window with large buttons. Buttons included "Record Disc", "Copy Disc", "Tools", "Contents", "Settings", "Unlock", and "Exit". Each button showed the user a window that allowed them to do the appropriate task. The "Record Disc" window allowed the user to choose the target recorder, recording options (such as test mode, speed, and beep at completion), and set up an attached

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Disc Transporter. The "Copy Disc" window let the user select whether they wanted to copy a disc, a track, or just specific sectors. It could also copy audio or data discs. For mixed and raw data there was the possibility to adjust the Mode 1 and Mode 2 transfer to Mode 1 Form 1. The ability to enable and disable

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correction and set subcode options was also available. While copying, a graphical representation of the disc would appear. The "Tools" button allowed the user to set source and destination devices and the type of operation to be performed, including image file generation, copying discs to images, and copying a

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device to the CD recorder. The "Contents" button showed disc information, including the number and type of tracks, the number of sessions, and the total disc time. The "Settings" window allowed the user to set up and choose the reader and recorder, any SCSI

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to be used, and the Kodak Disc Transporter, if attached.

Unique features

CDRWIN was known for its unique features such as analyzing the TOC of a CD. It is also one of the programs which introduced the cue sheet format.

PlayStation TOC Protection

CDRWIN was mostly used during the

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era. People could back up PlayStation games quickly and easily, and soon discovered that its unique cue sheet operations allowed them to alter the TOC for any CD being duplicated provided that the CD writer supported writing invalid TOCs. Most CD burning software could not make copies or images of the CD if the TOC was invalid. This problem was overcome when CDRWIN was released and duplication was made more accessible when

was updated to support this type of copying.

References

External links

Archived page of Golden Hawk Technology Web Site
{{Optical disc image software Optical disc authoring software Windows-only shareware

Features

Unique features

PlayStation TOC Protection

See also

References

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