a "proper mastering program" just means a CD/DVD Burner program that is
seperate from your OS.

until you locate/obtain a program (i highly recommend Nero 6), you could use
"CDBurnerXP Pro", which is a free program, on the XP machine to burn a
standard CD.
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

the Windows 98 system may have an issue with the disc. it may not read RWs.
also, im not too familiar with how WinXP deals with RW discs, but it may be
using a packet writing method - similar to InCD or DirectCD, or other apps
like that, which try to treat CD/DVD-RWs as floppy disks and similar storage
devices. in that case, proper packet writing software that is able to read
the XP made disc would need to be installed on the Win9x system.

i dont do "drag n drop" burning, and i think i may have used Windows XP's
built in burning once.


"ARADURS" DS@NOMAIL wrote in message
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Thanks...No its 7.7mb...been advised I need to use a proper mastering
program to copy to CD...trying to nderstand what that means :-)
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"Mary Sauer" wrote in message
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Might try a plain CD. Maybe it has something to do with the RW. Is the
driver small enough to fit on a floppy?

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"ARADURS" DS@NOMAIL wrote in message
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Any help appreciated...

Wish to replace a printer driver on my old non-internet Windows 98 pc.

Using a Windows XP PC have downloaded the appropriate driver from
Hewlett
Packard printer..then copied it onto a CD-RW by dragging and dropping
the
HP file onto the CD drive icon...all ok and this file can be viewed ok
when loaded onto another XP machine.

However, when inserting the CD into the CD drive of the W98 pc get the
message:-

E is not accessible. The driver is not ready!

Don't know why or how to sort this.

Thanks, Dave
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