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This may be a very strange question.

I noticed that a burned CD-R and an empty CD-R is different if you watch the recording surface carefully. Now I want to burn some words (visible to human but not CD drives) on the disk. So I tried to use a marker to write something on the CD-R (recording surface) and burn it in a CD-R drive. But unfortunately, the burning process failed as soon as the laser hit the written word on the disk. Is there any method for me to force the software and drive burn the CD-R ignoring any error?

Thank you very much!

NEW FINDINGS:

Some drives have such functions, namely LabelFlash or DiskT@2 etc. But these technologies all require special CD-R drives which I don't have. Is there any way to realize such technology with software methods?

I also find someone did this several years ago:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Burning-visible-images-onto-CD-Rs-with-data-beta/?ALLSTEPS

But the project is still in prelimilary state, and the author didn't update it afterwards. Are there any more mature and feasible methods?

james
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  • do you actually want to use the CD-R for anything afterwards? – Journeyman Geek Aug 03 '12 at 06:49
  • I don't quite get it. What is the point of writing something if it should not be readable afterwards? Why do you write at all? – Marco Aug 03 '12 at 06:52
  • Actually I want to write something readable in the inner area of the disk. And I want to burn some human visible words on the useless outer area. Is it possible? – james Aug 03 '12 at 07:02
  • I vaguely remember there was a tool that created a file specifically to get words on a CD R. Can't remember what it was called tho ;p – Journeyman Geek Aug 03 '12 at 07:30
  • Are you looking to affectingly just write words on the CD surface (and therefore not readable by a CD player)? If so, does it have to be done via a CD burner? – Dave Aug 03 '12 at 07:46
  • Yes, I just want to write visible words on unused recording surface of CD. It doesn't have to be done via a CD burner, but will a focused sunlight work? – james Aug 03 '12 at 08:07
  • It's technically possible, some Yamaha burners had this feature some years ago. Haven't heard about it for ages. – Nifle Aug 03 '12 at 11:46
  • I understand you want the other side of the disc affected, but just FYI ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightscribe – Oliver Salzburg Aug 03 '12 at 12:04
  • No, not the label side, but the data side. – james Aug 03 '12 at 12:07
  • Interesting requirement, nice idea! – LiuYan 刘研 Aug 03 '12 at 13:08

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