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PostPosted: 2004-08-23 17:15:38
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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
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PostPosted: 2004-08-23 17:34:37
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Paul Burridge wrote:
> 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

andrew


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PostPosted: 2004-08-23 21:24:08
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:34:37 GMT, andrew fox
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>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


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PostPosted: 2004-08-24 08:17:27
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Paul Burridge wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

i would use ordinary media cdr and go for much slower speeds when
initially trying to sort out this kind of problem
but check that the destination drive is in fact reading other cds at
all, the most crude test is audio then legit software then cdr then
cdrw for readability!

cheers andrew


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PostPosted: 2004-08-25 02:11:10
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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.

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PostPosted: 2004-08-25 12:33:45
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:11:10 +0100, Lee
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>Paul Burridge wrote:
>
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>> 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.

Thats interesting. Anyway, I tried the original suggestion and got
some new Philips 52X CD-R media and it seems to work fine now, so it
looks like the Packard-Bell re-writable media may well have been the
problem!
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PostPosted: 2004-08-25 19:02:38
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Paul Burridge wrote:
> 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

also fwiw i dont like nero that much and use roxio, also media jukebox
cos i just about only burn mp3s

cheers andrew


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