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Old March 14th 04, 07:42 AM
Michael Cecil
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 08:21:23 +0200, "Opinicus" wrote:


"Peter" wrote in message
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Go to Adaptec.com to download the ASPI drivers:

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/sup...aspi_471a2.exe
Read the instructions for what to install the ASPI drivers for XP.


How do I determine whether I have "Win XP 32 bit" or "Win XP 64 bit"?


If you have to ask that then you have 32 bit.

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Old March 14th 04, 08:23 AM
Opinicus
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"Peter" wrote in message
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The XP built in burner is Roxio.
Go to Adaptec.com to download the ASPI drivers:

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/sup...aspi_471a2.exe
Read the instructions for what to install the ASPI drivers for XP.


After seeing your message I remembered that I hadn't reinstalled the ASPI
drivers after doing a clean reinstallation of WinXP. I've downloaded the
file on the link above and followed the instructions for Win XP 32 bit
(which I'm told I have because I "have to ask") and...

Another "beer coaster" to add to my collection.

Sigh. I'm glad at least I don't really NEED to burn CDs. Not often any how.

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Old March 14th 04, 04:44 PM
Papa
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As others have already said, if you have to ask - you have 32 bit. The 64
bit version is a very, very high cost version of the OS.

To make sure, just click on Start / Control Panel. Then click on the System
icon. Under the General tab, if it is 64 bit, it will say so.

"Opinicus" wrote in message
...

"Peter" wrote in message
news:5484A819-D47E-4FED-B5FC-


Go to Adaptec.com to download the ASPI drivers:


http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/sup...aspi_471a2.exe
Read the instructions for what to install the ASPI drivers for XP.


How do I determine whether I have "Win XP 32 bit" or "Win XP 64 bit"?

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Old March 15th 04, 02:23 AM
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:24:22 GMT, Jon Andersonn
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:16:39 -0600, "Kelwin Delaunay"


I'm running Win XP Home Version 2002 SP 1 with all updates on eMachines
W2686 AMD AthlonXP 2600+ 2.12 Ghz with 512mb RAM. Only DVD/CDROM drive is a
LITE-ON COMBO LTC-4816H.


Problem: several times now I have attempted to copy some files to a new CD-R
(Imation 700mb 1x-12x).


(and presumably this failed)

One thought; I don't know if this is still the case; it was discovered
a few years ago that, even though cdroms and cdr's etc were made for
media containing a capacity of 650 megs (cd's, in plain language), an
unsupported capability existed to read higher than that, up to 700
megs. I don't know if the cdrom drive industry officially supports
that spec, or still goes with the original red book audio capacity


You get 650M CDRs and 700M CDRs, i.e. the blank disks come in either
size. Modern (XP-era) drives hould work with both.

However, you may be up against a limitation of XP's built-in CD
writing, which is a pretty grizzly affair. It creates multi-session
disks, and the extra overhead involved in multi-session may be enough
for your data load to no longer fit the disk.

Real CDR software such as Nero may well be a bit more daunting, what
with all the detail, but this is where that detail can help - turn off
multi-session, finalize disk, disk-at-once, remove inter-track gaps
when writing audio CDs, fade out audio tracks that don't fit, etc.

The saying "you get what you pay for" doesn't only apply to money - it
can also apply to effort you put into understanding your tools ;-)



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Old March 18th 04, 01:01 PM
Jon Andersonn
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Default Ruined CD's XP, Drive orCD Mfgr?

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:16:39 -0600, "Kelwin Delaunay"
tickled my privates with this:

Hi:

I'm running Win XP Home Version 2002 SP 1 with all updates on eMachines
W2686 AMD AthlonXP 2600+ 2.12 Ghz with 512mb RAM. Only DVD/CDROM drive is a
LITE-ON COMBO LTC-4816H.

Problem: several times now I have attempted to copy some files to a new CD-R
(Imation 700mb 1x-12x).


One thought; I don't know if this is still the case; it was discovered
a few years ago that, even though cdroms and cdr's etc were made for
media containing a capacity of 650 megs (cd's, in plain language), an
unsupported capability existed to read higher than that, up to 700
megs. I don't know if the cdrom drive industry officially supports
that spec, or still goes with the original red book audio capacity of
650.

I've never dealt with this, since I stick to standard 650 meg media;
my impression has always been that if your hardware will read that
extra 50 megs, it's icing on the cake; if it won't, you should use the
standard.

Since you have a combo drive at that, is it possible the drive simply
won't deal with that unsupported overage? Is this the first time it's
happened with 700 meg media?

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