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Glossary

Nero RescueAgent

7 Glossary

Bridge Disc

A Bridge Disc is a variant of a CD-ROM that can be read from CD drives but also from CD-I

devices such as a Photo CD for example. It is defined in the White Book Standard and

contains extra information in an XA (Standard Architecture) track on the CD-ROM.

FAT

FAT (File Allocation Table) is a file system developed by Microsoft. The FAT 12, FAT 16 and

FAT 32 file systems are used on all types of mobile storage media (e.g. USB sticks, memory

cards).

ISO 9660

The International Organization for Standardization defined the Universal Standard 9660

which determines the features of the CD. This format is platform-independent and can thus

be read by computers with different operating systems. In order to ensure universal

readability, the file names used should be as short as possible. (In a DOS environment no

more than eight characters may be used).

Joliet

Joliet refers to an extension of the ISO-9660 standard for file names. Joliet was designed by

Microsoft in order to represent more characters. The file name can be up to 64 characters

long and contain the letters A-Z, a-z, umlauts, as well as characters from Chinese,

Japanese, and Korean.

Multisession Disc

A multisession disc can contain several sessions that are not fixed. This way, more data can

be added in new sessions at a later point in time, and the disc is not closed until it is full.

NTFS

New Technology File System is a Windows® file system. Its advantages include

differentiated access and rights management, as well as defragmented data storage, which

allows the processing speed to remain high.

Packet-writing

Packet-writing refers to a procedure for writing to optical media incrementally. An optical

medium, e.g. a DVD, can be used as a hard drive as a result. This way, files can be copied,

moved, changed, or erased on the respective optical medium.

UDF

The Universal Disc Format is a platform-independent file system. File names can be up to

255 characters long; 8 and 16 bit character sets are supported.