Re: CD-RW burned in XP Home unreadable in other machines

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From: Hannibal (Hannibal.1fl05a_at_pcbanter.net)
Date: 11/12/04


Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:08:23 +0000


Have you tried this patch from Microsoft?
It addressed the same symptoms: http://tinyurl.com/59dwv
-Hannibal (posted Nov 10, 2004)

E.T.Me Wrote:
> It's your CD-ROM, It's not your software or your
> machine. Your cd-rom wont read the cd-rw because it aint
> set up to read them,it'll only read cd-r s. The files are
> there,but again your cd-rom wont read a cd-rw. You need
> to up-grade your cd-rom.......
> -----Original Message-----
> I copied some files to a CD-RW using XP Home's built-in
> CD burning abilities. This machine has no other CD
> burning software installed (although that may change
> soon
> if I can't resolve this issue).
>
> When I try to load the CD in two other machines I have
> they are unable to read them. One is running Windows
> 2000 and the other is running XP Professional.
>
> At first I tried adding these files to the CD as there
> were already some on there. However, the XP Home
> machine
> (the one doing the burning) complained about the disk.
> I
> then erased the existing files and it wrote to it fine.
>
> Is XP Home using some sort of non-standard file format
> for CD-RW's? I can write CDR's on this machine and read
> them elsewhere fine--it's only a problem with CD-RW's.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel Moore
> .
>

-- 
Hannibal


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