Verifiying CDs/DVDs after burning
May 15th, 2007 by Ben Jim
I’m sure you had the experience before when you’ve burnt out a file to your CD/DVD to back it up and deleted the original but when the time came when you wanted to retrieve your backup, to your horror, the file was corrupted during burning even when you turn on the “verify-after-burn” option on your cd burning application. (I’ve had some of these extremely painful experience with my animes collections)
Well, if your data is fairly important, one way to check for for discrenpencies - to avoid kicking yourself in your butt later on - is to use MultiComp which is an application, that can compare two collections of files comparing files byte-by-byte and reports whether they are identical. You can use it to compare files in any location, either on permanent disk or removal media but more often than not, I use it to verify a CD that I’ve burnt.
The steps are pretty straightforward and the interface is instintive. It involved selecting a source and destination of file(s) to compare and hitthing the start button. MultiComp will then read the CD and compare it to the original files, reporting any mismatches in the output box. If all went well, there should be no messages.
Download from here.
if your data is extremly important then you would want to use MD5 types of programs but more on that in our next installment.
