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Old October 16th 09, 03:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.win98.performance
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Default CD-R erratically detected

"glee" wrote in
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
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On an elderly PC I help a friend with, where he's copying
a lot of his old LPs to CD, we use burn4free (though I
think the problem is not with burn4free itself).

More often than not, when hitting the "burn" button, it
says "please insert a disc" - even if there's one in.
When, by fiddling, ejecting, closing and reopening b4f,
and so on, it finally decides that there _is_ a blank disc
in, it does the burn fine.

While looking, it rattles the floppy drive before it
"finds" the writer (from within b4f, that is).

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?



Did you try cleaning the lens with an audio cleaning disc?


You can not be serious.

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