October 18th 09, 03:31 PM
posted to 24hoursupport.helpdesk,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.win98.performance
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CD-R erratically detected
Meat Plow wrote:
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:02:14 -0600, ???hw??f
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In message , "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:
In message , Andy
writes:
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It isn't the _drive_ that's not being detected - that always shows up
in explorer; it's only the fact that there's a blank disc in it that
is so often missed.
Any ideas what's causing it, and what will improve it?
Try a different brand of CD blanks...Taiyo Yuden are among the best.
And once you've wasted a couple of quality blank CDs, throw the drive
away and spend $20-$30 to replace it.
It's ****ed. They don't last forever.
I think if it was the blanks, it wouldn't have been burning faultlessly
for the last few times we did manage to make it realise there was a disc
present. (And with cheap blanks, too.)
Will it recongnise if theres a disc in the drive that has data on it?
If so then its probably the media itself.
CD/RW discs are a problem sometimes.
It's not that old - only a year or two; the elderly PC had a non-writing
drive (still there). It's actually a CD and DVD writer, as I couldn't
even find a CD-only one. It's not been used much.
Did you ever drop it?
I will try the cleaning disc suggestion, but I do think it's a system
configuration funny: as I mentioned earlier, when burn4free is told to
do a burn, it accesses the floppy drive before getting to the writer.
Then you need to g00gle up the website for that app and look for a support
section, mate.
Appears he's got some corruption in his system part of the registry.
If so tehn he s gotta uninstall it and do surgery on the registyryry to
remove all the diseased bits.
^_^
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