Re: cd drive

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On 2008-09-01, Peter Foldes hit the keyboard and wrote:
The answer is yes.

But what happens when you spend money on a new CD-RW and the same issue will still persist?? Better fix it now if that is the issue. You then will have to do it with the new CD-RW after spending your money


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Peter, I think it's possible to adjust your software that it will
wrap the line at about 72 chars? Actually your whole message was
one long line here.

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I just wonder what's wrong with booting a CD-ROM before any OS is
even loaded? I've set my PC to boot from CD-ROM anyways. It's very
rare that a boot-able CD is in the drive.




Dragomir Kollaric
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