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Ruined CD's XP, Drive orCD Mfgr?
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 08:21:23 +0200, "Opinicus" wrote:
"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"? If you have to ask that then you have 32 bit. -- Michael Cecil http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/howto/ http://home.comcast.net/~antiviruscd/ |
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Ruined CD's XP, Drive orCD Mfgr?
"Peter" wrote in message
news:5484A819-D47E-4FED-B5FC- 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. -- Bob Kanyak's Doghouse http://kanyak.com |
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Ruined CD's XP, Drive orCD Mfgr?
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"? -- Bob Kanyak's Doghouse http://kanyak.com |
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Ruined CD's XP, Drive orCD Mfgr?
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 ;-) -------------------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - Running Windows-based av to kill active malware is like striking a match to see if what you are standing in is water or petrol. -------------------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - |
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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? ______________________________________ "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." --- Lillian Hellman |
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