From reader Jeffrey L. comes an addendum to an earlier TTOTD on suggestions for successfully burning CD’s. We had suggested optimizing (de-fragmenting) your hard drive before writing to CD from it. This helps minimize buffer under-runs.
Jeffrey says: "If you are making a disk image, you should start with a partition that is naturally defragmented, by erasing the partition, and then copying files to it one top-level folder at a time. This will keep related files together. The problem with defrag is that the defragment program won’t know what files are related, and you may end up with related data files at opposite ends of the disk, which will slow down access."
Thanks for the suggestion Jeffrey!