Re: Vb 6.0 MSDN Setup file download.

Stefan Berglund <sorry.no.koolaid@xxxxxx> wrote:
"Karl E. Peterson" wrote:
I tried *really* hard to eliminate anything that could've possibly confused the
issue. What it comes down to is, XP just doesn't "like" some discs burned with
W2K. I mean, I even have other discs (from the same retail spindle!) that work
on both, if burned in XP. I moved a single piece of hardware back and forth.
Used the same software on both. That playing field was as level as I could
imagine making it.

Then you answered my next question. I remember way back in 1999 or so
burning CDs that couldn't be read on a really old machine that had been
converted to Windows 98 but that was because I burned at a speed faster
than the ancient could read.

Yep, that pretty much says they did something to XP. Odd, really odd.
Did you by chance try the same experiment with a second piece of
hardware on both OSes?

Not with an identical piece of hardware. I was convinced though. I tried the discs
in probably close to two dozen machines, looking for patterns. Both with internal
drives, and with an external USB drive that I could move between them. Dunno what
was odd about these discs, but they simply couldn't be read by *any* XP box,
although *any* 2k box read them just fine. I couldn't repro the situation, either,
with newly burnt discs, so I'm left frustrated. The question is, how much old data
is "safely" backed up to CD, only to be wanted again after all 2k machines have been
retired/updated? Really sucks.
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