Re: Difficulty in burning CD's

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 04/02/04 

Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 13:10:59 +0100

DavidJ726 wrote:

>Mom has a HP 733N PC that has a few odd problems, one of which I can't
>figure out. When trying to back up her sewing designs to a CD using the HP
>RecordNow application, the burn always fails unless I highlight the folder,
>right click on it and uncheck the read-only attribute. After that, I can
>copy the folder and all its contents to a CD.
>
>The HP is an AMD XP2400 with 512 RAM and XP Home. I have no idea who's CD
>drive it is, but it does support 40/10/40x. I probably need to bring her
>PC to my house where I have broadband and start downloading updates &
>patches, but because of other problems she's having I personally think XP
>needs to be reloaded from scratch using HP's recovery disk, unfortunately
>I'm not sure she'll let me go that route.

I can think of no reason. It might be worth going to the HP site and
getting the latest version of RecordNow to install - but I don't
remember seeing that trouble using it and an HP drive (which are
usually actually made by Sony) At

http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Nav?h_pagetype=prodhomes&h_lang=en&h_cc=us&h_product=hpcdwriter304655&h_client=s-a-r163-1&h_page=hpcom&lang=en&cc=us

which will wrap - select the drive type (find it in Control Panel -
System - Hardware - Device Manager) though I don't suppose it matters
much and it will lead you to a page where you can download 

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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)