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> Hi,
>
> I transferred 14 files over from my PC to my laptop by burning them
> onto a CD. The PC clearly shows the copy was carried out correctly,
> but for some strange reason, my laptop cant read this CD and thinks
> its blank. Nero says the CD Ive created should be readable on all
> Windoze platforms, so whats gone wrong? Ive tried this twice on 2
> seperate re-writables and the laptop resolutely refuses to see
> anything on the CDs., so I conclude its not a fault with the CD
> itself. So wheres the problem?
>
> thanks,
>
> Paul

>will the cd in the lappy actually read any cds, will it read cdrs?

>when you said rewritables do you meen cdrw in which case that is
>probably the problem

>use an ordinary cdr instead of a cdrw and it will most likely be ok
>i have had this problem too with cdrwaudio discs

> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:34:37 GMT, andrew fox
> wrote:
>
>
>>will the cd in the lappy actually read any cds, will it read cdrs?
>
>
> Yes, but there again its read re-writables from the same source, too.
>
>
>>when you said rewritables do you meen cdrw in which case that is
>>probably the problem
>
>
> The actual media Im using is Packard Bell CD-RW 4X-10X compatible.
> But the CD re-writer is 52X record; 32X rewrite; 52X read. Could that
> be the problem? Sometimes this media cant keep up with the writer?
> The medias not that old, BTW (<2yrs).
>
>
>>use an ordinary cdr instead of a cdrw and it will most likely be ok
>>i have had this problem too with cdrwaudio discs
>
>
>

> The actual media Im using is Packard Bell CD-RW 4X-10X compatible.
> But the CD re-writer is 52X record; 32X rewrite; 52X read. Could that
> be the problem? Sometimes this media cant keep up with the writer?
> The medias not that old, BTW (<2yrs).

>Paul Burridge wrote:
>
>
>> The actual media Im using is Packard Bell CD-RW 4X-10X compatible.
>> But the CD re-writer is 52X record; 32X rewrite; 52X read. Could that
>> be the problem? Sometimes this media cant keep up with the writer?
>> The medias not that old, BTW (<2yrs).
>
>May not be the problem of course, but Ive just thrown out 20 of those
>particular brand CD-RW discs because they were useless.
>They were around 2 years old too, maybe a bad batch?
>
>Could write to them with no apparent errors, but no drives, including
>the ones that wrote them, (I tried 4 different writers), could read them
>back reliably.

> Hi,
>
> I transferred 14 files over from my PC to my laptop by burning them
> onto a CD. The PC clearly shows the copy was carried out correctly,
> but for some strange reason, my laptop cant read this CD and thinks
> its blank. Nero says the CD Ive created should be readable on all
> Windoze platforms, so whats gone wrong? Ive tried this twice on 2
> seperate re-writables and the laptop resolutely refuses to see
> anything on the CDs., so I conclude its not a fault with the CD
> itself. So wheres the problem?
>
> thanks,
>
> Paul