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Old October 16th 09, 03:26 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.win98.performance
glee
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Default CD-R erratically detected

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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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?
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