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CD-R erratically detected
In message , "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , Andy writes: [] 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. -- http://www.care2.com/click-to-donate/wolves/ Proof of Americas 3rd world status: http://www.ramusa.org/ Cash for *who*? http://www.bartcop.com/list-the-facts.htm http://www.pavlovianobeisance.com/ |
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CD-R erratically detected
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
The suggestion elsewhere in this thread about trying a different brand of disc is also a good idea, especially if the issue is *only* with burning discs, not reading them. The first few we did were with cheap unlabelled ones, which were mostly fine (we had a couple of part-burned ones, but that was I think more a buffer problem - it is a BURN-proof drive, and the software knows that, but still; and moving the "temporary files" space for the .mp3-to-wav conversion to a different partition, combined with reducing the burning speed, seemed to solve that). A fail-safe method is to just decode the MP3s to wave yourself then burn the waves. Many programs to do decoding/encoding, CDex is good, easy and free. http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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CD-R erratically detected
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
... snip Initially I used Easy CD Creator - I know a lot of people don't think much of it, but I was used to it, and it seemed to work fine. (I used updates, which were necessary for it to recognise the new drive.) After a complete system rebuild - I forget what prompted that, but it was, I'm pretty sure, necessary (no point in discussing it, anyway - 'tis done) - I couldn't get ECDC to recognise the drive, whatever I did, hence the installation of burn4free. Until the recent problems, _that_ has been working fine too. I've downloaded burnaware_free, deep_burner, and microburner, and will try one or all next time I visit John; the trouble is, I don't know if they allow the temp. files location to be specified as burn4free does, and there's not really enough space on the C drive. Which version of Microburner? I have versions 4.x and 5.x here. Silentnight Microburner 5.x has a place in its "burner settings" to choose the temp location. I don't see any way to do it with version 4.x, though. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 A+ http://dts-l.net/ |
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CD-R erratically detected
In message , dadiOH
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: The suggestion elsewhere in this thread about trying a different brand of disc is also a good idea, especially if the issue is *only* with burning discs, not reading them. The first few we did were with cheap unlabelled ones, which were mostly fine (we had a couple of part-burned ones, but that was I think more a buffer problem - it is a BURN-proof drive, and the software knows that, but still; and moving the "temporary files" space for the .mp3-to-wav conversion to a different partition, combined with reducing the burning speed, seemed to solve that). A fail-safe method is to just decode the MP3s to wave yourself then burn the waves. Many programs to do decoding/encoding, CDex is good, easy and free. http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ GoldWave (with Lame) too. But (a) that part of Burn4Free seems to have worked fine anyway, (b) I suspect it (burnfree) would still intermittently fail to detect there was a blank in the drive, when we tried to burn the .wavs. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** At least with a British car, you know that everything that falls off it is a product of true British workmanship. (Lord somethingorother on Robin Day's programme, 1980-1-15.) |
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CD-R erratically detected
In message , glee
writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... [] visit John; the trouble is, I don't know if they allow the temp. files location to be specified as burn4free does, and there's not really enough space on the C drive. Which version of Microburner? I have versions 4.x and 5.x here. Silentnight Microburner 5.x has a place in its "burner settings" to choose the temp location. I don't see any way to do it with version 4.x, though. 5.0. Under burner settings, I see something called "Temporary ISO folder placement" under "Direct Copy/Clone Settings", which I presume is something to do with copying one CD to another. I have wondered whether it also uses the folder specified for temporary .wav files, but have yet to find out; if you know that it does, I'll be pleased to try - it looks a nice piece of software. (And the speech is fun.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** At least with a British car, you know that everything that falls off it is a product of true British workmanship. (Lord somethingorother on Robin Day's programme, 1980-1-15.) |
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CD-R erratically detected
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
... In message , glee writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... [] visit John; the trouble is, I don't know if they allow the temp. files location to be specified as burn4free does, and there's not really enough space on the C drive. Which version of Microburner? I have versions 4.x and 5.x here. Silentnight Microburner 5.x has a place in its "burner settings" to choose the temp location. I don't see any way to do it with version 4.x, though. 5.0. Under burner settings, I see something called "Temporary ISO folder placement" under "Direct Copy/Clone Settings", which I presume is something to do with copying one CD to another. I have wondered whether it also uses the folder specified for temporary .wav files, but have yet to find out; if you know that it does, I'll be pleased to try - it looks a nice piece of software. (And the speech is fun.) I haven't used it for music ripping/conversion/etc., so I can't say if that setting applies to it also. Why not try and find out? It can't hurt (too much) eg -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 A+ http://dts-l.net/ |
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CD-R erratically detected
In message , glee
writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , glee writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... [] visit John; the trouble is, I don't know if they allow the temp. files location to be specified as burn4free does, and there's not really enough space on the C drive. Which version of Microburner? I have versions 4.x and 5.x here. Silentnight Microburner 5.x has a place in its "burner settings" to choose the temp location. I don't see any way to do it with version 4.x, though. 5.0. Under burner settings, I see something called "Temporary ISO folder placement" under "Direct Copy/Clone Settings", which I presume is something to do with copying one CD to another. I have wondered whether it also uses the folder specified for temporary .wav files, but have yet to find out; if you know that it does, I'll be pleased to try - it looks a nice piece of software. (And the speech is fun.) I haven't used it for music ripping/conversion/etc., so I can't say if that setting applies to it also. Why not try and find out? It can't hurt (too much) eg I intend to! -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** At least with a British car, you know that everything that falls off it is a product of true British workmanship. (Lord somethingorother on Robin Day's programme, 1980-1-15.) |
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CD-R erratically detected
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , dadiOH writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: The suggestion elsewhere in this thread about trying a different brand of disc is also a good idea, especially if the issue is *only* with burning discs, not reading them. The first few we did were with cheap unlabelled ones, which were mostly fine (we had a couple of part-burned ones, but that was I think more a buffer problem - it is a BURN-proof drive, and the software knows that, but still; and moving the "temporary files" space for the .mp3-to-wav conversion to a different partition, combined with reducing the burning speed, seemed to solve that). A fail-safe method is to just decode the MP3s to wave yourself then burn the waves. Many programs to do decoding/encoding, CDex is good, easy and free. http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ GoldWave (with Lame) too. But (a) that part of Burn4Free seems to have worked fine anyway, (b) I suspect it (burnfree) would still intermittently fail to detect there was a blank in the drive, when we tried to burn the .wavs. Right. I was suggesting it as an alternative to your previous buffer problem. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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CD-R erratically detected
Meat Plow wrote:
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:02:14 -0600, ???hw??f wrote: In message , "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , Andy writes: [] 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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CD-R erratically detected
Here a suggestion if he trying to burn cds. Lower the speed down to
12x (Yes, you have to wait longer, but it is more reliable to have the data stored correctly). I notice when my burners are going bad, you can use lower speed for a few months till it quits. My lasted for about a year. Greg |
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