Curious CD-RW Behaviour

I dunno but your clock is fast and your posting from the future.

"wfb" <williamfrancisbennett@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Around Christmas time I did a clean install of Windows XP on my Toshiba
> laptop. Everything worked more or less fine. In particular I could burn
> CD-Rs and CD-RW using my external HP cd-writer together with the RecordNow
> and DLA software. I say more or less fine because some of the CD-RW

created

> using the older MyCD software running under Windows 98 were unreadable --
> which I understand from reading here and elsewhere isn't unusual.
>
> Last month I wiped the hard drive and did another clean install. I

sometimes

> test new gear using the computer and basically the sheer number of

hardware

> drivers tends to affect performance after a while. Incidentally this is a
> major endorsement of XP, under 98 and ME I generally needed to clean

install

> every two to three months -- eight months is a big improvement.
>
> Since the clean install, I haven't been able to burn a CD or use any of my
> CD-RW discs. I can still read some of the CD-RW discs (but fewer than

before

> and not those created in the last eight months). I'm pretty certain the
> applications haven't changed since I first moved to XP, so the only
> explanation I can come up with is that something in the recent XP updates

or

> one of the newer drivers is causeing the problem.
>
> Also, I can read some CD-RW in my laptop's CD-R driver, but not in the
> CD-RW. I suspect this is a pointer to the problem, but can't figure out

the

> next step.
>
> There's something else too. In the past I've used a program called UDFRead
> to look at some of my old discs, last week I downloaded the latest version
> of this program, 5.1.1.213 but it no longer installs -- I get an error
> message if I try.
>
> I've tried a second clean install, but ... no success.
>
>

maybe..

Have you tried brand new CD-RWs, you can only write to a CD-RW so many times
and then they become unusable




"wfb" <williamfrancisbennett@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:QSlXa.65$3W2.3607@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...

> Around Christmas time I did a clean install of Windows XP on my Toshiba
> laptop. Everything worked more or less fine. In particular I could burn
> CD-Rs and CD-RW using my external HP cd-writer together with the RecordNow
> and DLA software. I say more or less fine because some of the CD-RW

created

> using the older MyCD software running under Windows 98 were unreadable --
> which I understand from reading here and elsewhere isn't unusual.
>
> Last month I wiped the hard drive and did another clean install. I

sometimes

> test new gear using the computer and basically the sheer number of

hardware

> drivers tends to affect performance after a while. Incidentally this is a
> major endorsement of XP, under 98 and ME I generally needed to clean

install

> every two to three months -- eight months is a big improvement.
>
> Since the clean install, I haven't been able to burn a CD or use any of my
> CD-RW discs. I can still read some of the CD-RW discs (but fewer than

before

> and not those created in the last eight months). I'm pretty certain the
> applications haven't changed since I first moved to XP, so the only
> explanation I can come up with is that something in the recent XP updates

or

> one of the newer drivers is causeing the problem.
>
> Also, I can read some CD-RW in my laptop's CD-R driver, but not in the
> CD-RW. I suspect this is a pointer to the problem, but can't figure out

the

> next step.
>
> There's something else too. In the past I've used a program called UDFRead
> to look at some of my old discs, last week I downloaded the latest version
> of this program, 5.1.1.213 but it no longer installs -- I get an error
> message if I try.
>
> I've tried a second clean install, but ... no success.
>
>

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:31:27 -0700, wfb pondered exceedingly, then took quill in
hand and carefully composed...

| I don't think so. I actually wrote it on the afternoon of Monday the 4th of
| August 2003 (Australian time), that's what it was clocked at. The clock is
| spot on.

Something is wrong. It showed up on my system as 6:04 PM, same date, Eastern
Daylight Time (US East Coast). But it's now only 9:28 AM!

Larc



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In rCqXa.127$3W2.7733@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au, wfb wrote:

> I don't think so. I actually wrote it on the afternoon of Monday the
> 4th of August 2003 (Australian time), that's what it was clocked at.
> The clock is spot on.

Then you probably have the time zone set wrong, which has the same effect.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

> "OneEye" <me@there.com> wrote in message
> news:BxpXa.105318$JA5.2305437@news.xtra.co.nz...

Yep. Like so many others, his time zone is still set to -0700, which is PST
(Pacific Standard Time in the USA) - where Microsoft's home office is.

So, WFB, please tell your Windows that you're not in Redmond anymore. ;<)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP

"Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
news:visvfg9gl90h39@corp.supernews.com...
In rCqXa.127$3W2.7733@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au, wfb wrote:

> I don't think so. I actually wrote it on the afternoon of Monday the
> 4th of August 2003 (Australian time), that's what it was clocked at.
> The clock is spot on.

Then you probably have the time zone set wrong, which has the same effect.

--
Ken Blake

> "OneEye" <me@there.com> wrote in message
> news:BxpXa.105318$JA5.2305437@news.xtra.co.nz...

Around Christmas time I did a clean install of Windows XP on my Toshiba
laptop. Everything worked more or less fine. In particular I could burn
CD-Rs and CD-RW using my external HP cd-writer together with the RecordNow
and DLA software. I say more or less fine because some of the CD-RW created
using the older MyCD software running under Windows 98 were unreadable --
which I understand from reading here and elsewhere isn't unusual.

Last month I wiped the hard drive and did another clean install. I sometimes
test new gear using the computer and basically the sheer number of hardware
drivers tends to affect performance after a while. Incidentally this is a
major endorsement of XP, under 98 and ME I generally needed to clean install
every two to three months -- eight months is a big improvement.

Since the clean install, I haven't been able to burn a CD or use any of my
CD-RW discs. I can still read some of the CD-RW discs (but fewer than before
and not those created in the last eight months). I'm pretty certain the
applications haven't changed since I first moved to XP, so the only
explanation I can come up with is that something in the recent XP updates or
one of the newer drivers is causeing the problem.

Also, I can read some CD-RW in my laptop's CD-R driver, but not in the
CD-RW. I suspect this is a pointer to the problem, but can't figure out the
next step.

There's something else too. In the past I've used a program called UDFRead
to look at some of my old discs, last week I downloaded the latest version
of this program, 5.1.1.213 but it no longer installs -- I get an error
message if I try.

I've tried a second clean install, but ... no success.

Yes, you're right. This is what happens when you keep reinstalling Windows.

"Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
news:visvfg9gl90h39@corp.supernews.com...
In rCqXa.127$3W2.7733@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au, wfb wrote:

> I don't think so. I actually wrote it on the afternoon of Monday the
> 4th of August 2003 (Australian time), that's what it was clocked at.
> The clock is spot on.

Then you probably have the time zone set wrong, which has the same effect.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

> "OneEye" <me@there.com> wrote in message
> news:BxpXa.105318$JA5.2305437@news.xtra.co.nz...

I don't think so. I actually wrote it on the afternoon of Monday the 4th of
August 2003 (Australian time), that's what it was clocked at. The clock is
spot on.

"OneEye" <me@there.com> wrote in message
news:BxpXa.105318$JA5.2305437@news.xtra.co.nz...

> I dunno but your clock is fast and your posting from the future.
>
> "wfb" <williamfrancisbennett@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:QSlXa.65$3W2.3607@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...

RecordNow

> created

unreadable --

> sometimes

> hardware

a

> install

my

> before

updates

> or

> the

UDFRead

version

>
>