Why my 500gb hard drive showing only 127gb

John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not as
though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But that
has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of life with
homemade burned cds.

That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade" as you
imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is someting else at
work; once burned, they're physically "set". You could have misaligned
heads where it might not work in another drive, but that's about all.

Twayne`


John

DL wrote:
Slipstream has allways worked for me, on various systems

"Twayne" wrote in message
...
Careful with this advice; beware slipstreams.

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 00:05:01 -0700, mia vai
wrote:

Hi few days ago my computer got virus and crash.

What virus?


Although I have Norton anti
virus software install in my computer.

Norton is the *worst* anti-virus product available. You were *not*
adequately protected.
Completely untrue.


Anyway I fixed it by clean hard drive
and reinstall windows xp os.

That is almost always a very poor way to proceed if you have a
virus. Viruses can usually be removed if you do it properly with
good software.
It's often faster to do a clean install of windows than to spend
excessive time chasing down malware, especially for an as yet
inexperienced person in those areas. What might really be missing
here is a good backup strategy.


My computer has 2 hard drive primary 80gb and
slave drive is 500gb. Problem is when I open my computer property
there is 3 hard drive, drive C, drive D, and drive E.

If you ended up with more partitions than you wanted, you did the
installation improperly. Exactly how did you do it? Please describe
the steps completely.
Most likely.


I assume E is the slave drive,
which suppose to be 500gb now it's showing only 127 GB.

You probably installed with an old copy of Windows XP. If you don't
install with at least SP1, a drive that large won't be supported.
You need to slipstream a service pack--preferably the latest one,
SP3--onto a CD and redo the installation.
Probably. But slipstreams are catastrophic failures for many new to
the process since they have no way of testing them without risking
their drives again and spending much more time. A proper back up
strategy nicely sidesteps that whole thing.


I don't know what
went wrong. Somebody please help me to fix that problem. Thank
you.

JS wrote:
No I just thought it was a good idea as their is
the possibility that 80GB will go south and either
the 500GB drive or a newly purchased drive will
replace the old 80GB model. A check on the web
shows you most likely will be able to get a drive larger
than 80GB for the same cost or only a few extra dollars.

Since it appears that before "mia vai" reinstalled XP
the 500GB drive was fully accessible (from the original
post as a single partition E it would appear that whatever
CD was used to reinstall XP did not included Service Pack 1.

So the user has two choices, the first I already mentioned and
as Shenan already indicated the CD may not have included SP1
so choice #2 which I did not mention is that after SP1, SP2 and
or SP3 is applied and the 500GB drive is recognized properly is
to do and Image Backup, that way "mia vai" will not be required
to start from scratch should the need arise.
....

That is good advice that will work out well for the OP.

Twayne`

JS wrote:
No I just thought it was a good idea as their is
the possibility that 80GB will go south and either
the 500GB drive or a newly purchased drive will
replace the old 80GB model. A check on the web
shows you most likely will be able to get a drive larger
than 80GB for the same cost or only a few extra dollars.

Since it appears that before "mia vai" reinstalled XP
the 500GB drive was fully accessible (from the original
post as a single partition E it would appear that whatever
CD was used to reinstall XP did not included Service Pack 1.

So the user has two choices, the first I already mentioned and
as Shenan already indicated the CD may not have included SP1
so choice #2 which I did not mention is that after SP1, SP2 and
or SP3 is applied and the 500GB drive is recognized properly is
to do and Image Backup, that way "mia vai" will not be required
to start from scratch should the need arise.
....

That is good advice that will work out well for the OP.

Twayne`

Twayne wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not as
though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But that
has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of life with
homemade burned cds.

That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade" as you
imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is someting else at
work; once burned, they're physically "set". You could have misaligned
heads where it might not work in another drive, but that's about all.


Home made burned cds are getting better but for most part they just
don't last as long as factory pressed cds, that is a fact, just because
you don't know the difference doesn't make it untrue. The quality and
durability of the homemade cd will depend on the quality of the media as
well as the quality of the burner used to make them. Factory cd aren't
burned, they're pressed. Leave a homemade cd and a factory cd exposed
to the sun then find out for yourself which one lasts longer. Use
factory music cds and homemade music cds in your car then find out for
yourself which one starts to skip first, find out for yourself which one
fails first. I'm sure that you probably think that factory cds are
burned like homemade ones... you don't know the difference between the
two of them.

John

Twayne wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not as
though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But that
has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of life with
homemade burned cds.

That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade" as you
imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is someting else at
work; once burned, they're physically "set". You could have misaligned
heads where it might not work in another drive, but that's about all.


Home made burned cds are getting better but for most part they just
don't last as long as factory pressed cds, that is a fact, just because
you don't know the difference doesn't make it untrue. The quality and
durability of the homemade cd will depend on the quality of the media as
well as the quality of the burner used to make them. Factory cd aren't
burned, they're pressed. Leave a homemade cd and a factory cd exposed
to the sun then find out for yourself which one lasts longer. Use
factory music cds and homemade music cds in your car then find out for
yourself which one starts to skip first, find out for yourself which one
fails first. I'm sure that you probably think that factory cds are
burned like homemade ones... you don't know the difference between the
two of them.

John

Twayne,

CD media quality and burners can make a big difference
in how long the media last. Sunlight and humidity can make
short work on cheap media.

As John John mentioned factory CDs are pressed so I would
expect them to last longer, but that doesn't mean you can't get
a bad CD fresh from the factory as I recently experienced and
confirmed with the vendor's tech support.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com


"Twayne" wrote in message
...
John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not as
though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But that
has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of life with
homemade burned cds.

That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade" as you
imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is someting else at
work; once burned, they're physically "set". You could have misaligned
heads where it might not work in another drive, but that's about all.

Twayne`


John

DL wrote:
Slipstream has allways worked for me, on various systems

"Twayne" wrote in message
...
Careful with this advice; beware slipstreams.

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 00:05:01 -0700, mia vai
wrote:

Hi few days ago my computer got virus and crash.

What virus?


Although I have Norton anti
virus software install in my computer.

Norton is the *worst* anti-virus product available. You were *not*
adequately protected.
Completely untrue.


Anyway I fixed it by clean hard drive
and reinstall windows xp os.

That is almost always a very poor way to proceed if you have a
virus. Viruses can usually be removed if you do it properly with
good software.
It's often faster to do a clean install of windows than to spend
excessive time chasing down malware, especially for an as yet
inexperienced person in those areas. What might really be missing
here is a good backup strategy.


My computer has 2 hard drive primary 80gb and
slave drive is 500gb. Problem is when I open my computer property
there is 3 hard drive, drive C, drive D, and drive E.

If you ended up with more partitions than you wanted, you did the
installation improperly. Exactly how did you do it? Please describe
the steps completely.
Most likely.


I assume E is the slave drive,
which suppose to be 500gb now it's showing only 127 GB.

You probably installed with an old copy of Windows XP. If you don't
install with at least SP1, a drive that large won't be supported.
You need to slipstream a service pack--preferably the latest one,
SP3--onto a CD and redo the installation.
Probably. But slipstreams are catastrophic failures for many new to
the process since they have no way of testing them without risking
their drives again and spending much more time. A proper back up
strategy nicely sidesteps that whole thing.


I don't know what
went wrong. Somebody please help me to fix that problem. Thank
you.

Twayne,

CD media quality and burners can make a big difference
in how long the media last. Sunlight and humidity can make
short work on cheap media.

As John John mentioned factory CDs are pressed so I would
expect them to last longer, but that doesn't mean you can't get
a bad CD fresh from the factory as I recently experienced and
confirmed with the vendor's tech support.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com


"Twayne" wrote in message
...
John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not as
though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But that
has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of life with
homemade burned cds.

That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade" as you
imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is someting else at
work; once burned, they're physically "set". You could have misaligned
heads where it might not work in another drive, but that's about all.

Twayne`


John

DL wrote:
Slipstream has allways worked for me, on various systems

"Twayne" wrote in message
...
Careful with this advice; beware slipstreams.

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 00:05:01 -0700, mia vai
wrote:

Hi few days ago my computer got virus and crash.

What virus?


Although I have Norton anti
virus software install in my computer.

Norton is the *worst* anti-virus product available. You were *not*
adequately protected.
Completely untrue.


Anyway I fixed it by clean hard drive
and reinstall windows xp os.

That is almost always a very poor way to proceed if you have a
virus. Viruses can usually be removed if you do it properly with
good software.
It's often faster to do a clean install of windows than to spend
excessive time chasing down malware, especially for an as yet
inexperienced person in those areas. What might really be missing
here is a good backup strategy.


My computer has 2 hard drive primary 80gb and
slave drive is 500gb. Problem is when I open my computer property
there is 3 hard drive, drive C, drive D, and drive E.

If you ended up with more partitions than you wanted, you did the
installation improperly. Exactly how did you do it? Please describe
the steps completely.
Most likely.


I assume E is the slave drive,
which suppose to be 500gb now it's showing only 127 GB.

You probably installed with an old copy of Windows XP. If you don't
install with at least SP1, a drive that large won't be supported.
You need to slipstream a service pack--preferably the latest one,
SP3--onto a CD and redo the installation.
Probably. But slipstreams are catastrophic failures for many new to
the process since they have no way of testing them without risking
their drives again and spending much more time. A proper back up
strategy nicely sidesteps that whole thing.


I don't know what
went wrong. Somebody please help me to fix that problem. Thank
you.

John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not
as though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But that
has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of
life with homemade burned cds.
snipped

Twayne wrote:
That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade"
as you imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is
someting else at work; once burned, they're physically "set". You
could have misaligned heads where it might not work in another
drive, but that's about all.

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-10149_10...hreadID=152618

I would say a CD-R/RW copied from the original and left in the same
conditions (perhaps stored in a carrier, never used but perhaps carried
around in heated cars, sunlight hitting the carrier, etc) would sho that the
CD-R/RW is more vulnerable to the temperature changes, sunlight effects, etc
than the original (pressed) CD based off experience.

http://www.imation-southasia.com/mediacaretips.html

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not
as though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But that
has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of
life with homemade burned cds.
snipped

Twayne wrote:
That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade"
as you imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is
someting else at work; once burned, they're physically "set". You
could have misaligned heads where it might not work in another
drive, but that's about all.

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-10149_10...hreadID=152618

I would say a CD-R/RW copied from the original and left in the same
conditions (perhaps stored in a carrier, never used but perhaps carried
around in heated cars, sunlight hitting the carrier, etc) would sho that the
CD-R/RW is more vulnerable to the temperature changes, sunlight effects, etc
than the original (pressed) CD based off experience.

http://www.imation-southasia.com/mediacaretips.html

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

John John - MVP wrote:
Twayne wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not
as though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But
that has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of life
with homemade burned cds.

That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade" as
you imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is someting
else at work; once burned, they're physically "set". You could have
misaligned heads where it might not work in another drive, but
that's about all.


Home made burned cds are getting better but for most part they just
don't last as long as factory pressed cds, that is a fact, just
because you don't know the difference doesn't make it untrue. The
quality and durability of the homemade cd will depend on the quality
of the media as well as the quality of the burner used to make them.
Factory cd aren't burned, they're pressed. Leave a homemade cd and a
factory cd exposed to the sun then find out for yourself which one
lasts longer. Use factory music cds and homemade music cds in your
car then find out for yourself which one starts to skip first, find
out for yourself which one fails first. I'm sure that you probably
think that factory cds are burned like homemade ones... you don't
know the difference between the two of them.

John

Wow, you're the uneducated little toad, aren't you? You're not talking
the speed of the original discussion here, you're adding your own
conditions to it. And you left out labels using the wrong materials in
the adhesive, too. Purposely mistreating a product is a lot different
than its design results. I think from this we can surmise how you treat
your machine, its media and the advice you give quite often.
I have data CDs and DVDs going back many years, from the point where
they became affordable, and a complete archive I use often. I
re-catalogged it last fall and every single one checked out perfectly.
They're from a variety of sources, some gifts that weren't from even a
name brand of any kind and every one of them checked perfectly during
the run. Every one was checked against a previously existing hash list
and every one matched perfectly, plus I had a new, verified hash list
out of the deal. Otherwise I'd only use probably ten of them a year for
lookups but that particular process proved out the reliability of my
archive. It was a long process but I had help with it and finished it in
about a week. One DVD turned up missing; I never did find it. Oh, and
data disks are much more sensitive to failure with a lot less damge than
music crap.
I come from the days of floppy storage so periodic refresh/checks of
data surfaces isn't exactly a new concept to me. The only secret to
long term storage of any media is following the manufacturer's
instructions. If you want to toss them on the dash of your car on hot
days that's your problem. Only dummies purposely ignore mfg
requirements.

Twayne`

John John - MVP wrote:
Twayne wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not
as though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But
that has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of life
with homemade burned cds.

That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade" as
you imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is someting
else at work; once burned, they're physically "set". You could have
misaligned heads where it might not work in another drive, but
that's about all.


Home made burned cds are getting better but for most part they just
don't last as long as factory pressed cds, that is a fact, just
because you don't know the difference doesn't make it untrue. The
quality and durability of the homemade cd will depend on the quality
of the media as well as the quality of the burner used to make them.
Factory cd aren't burned, they're pressed. Leave a homemade cd and a
factory cd exposed to the sun then find out for yourself which one
lasts longer. Use factory music cds and homemade music cds in your
car then find out for yourself which one starts to skip first, find
out for yourself which one fails first. I'm sure that you probably
think that factory cds are burned like homemade ones... you don't
know the difference between the two of them.

John

Wow, you're the uneducated little toad, aren't you? You're not talking
the speed of the original discussion here, you're adding your own
conditions to it. And you left out labels using the wrong materials in
the adhesive, too. Purposely mistreating a product is a lot different
than its design results. I think from this we can surmise how you treat
your machine, its media and the advice you give quite often.
I have data CDs and DVDs going back many years, from the point where
they became affordable, and a complete archive I use often. I
re-catalogged it last fall and every single one checked out perfectly.
They're from a variety of sources, some gifts that weren't from even a
name brand of any kind and every one of them checked perfectly during
the run. Every one was checked against a previously existing hash list
and every one matched perfectly, plus I had a new, verified hash list
out of the deal. Otherwise I'd only use probably ten of them a year for
lookups but that particular process proved out the reliability of my
archive. It was a long process but I had help with it and finished it in
about a week. One DVD turned up missing; I never did find it. Oh, and
data disks are much more sensitive to failure with a lot less damge than
music crap.
I come from the days of floppy storage so periodic refresh/checks of
data surfaces isn't exactly a new concept to me. The only secret to
long term storage of any media is following the manufacturer's
instructions. If you want to toss them on the dash of your car on hot
days that's your problem. Only dummies purposely ignore mfg
requirements.

Twayne`

JS wrote:
Twayne,

CD media quality and burners can make a big difference
in how long the media last. Sunlight and humidity can make
short work on cheap media.

As John John mentioned factory CDs are pressed so I would
expect them to last longer, but that doesn't mean you can't get
a bad CD fresh from the factory as I recently experienced and
confirmed with the vendor's tech support.

That's true. I've had quite a few duds fresh from the factory. My
source has always taken my word for it and included extra disks in the
next order though. However I'm not buying music CDs/DVDs; they're
almost all used for data and/or program delivery.

Twayne



"Twayne" wrote in message
...
John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not
as though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But
that has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of life
with homemade burned cds.

That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade" as
you imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is someting
else at work; once burned, they're physically "set". You could have
misaligned heads where it might not work in another drive, but
that's about all. Twayne`


John

DL wrote:
Slipstream has allways worked for me, on various systems

"Twayne" wrote in message
...
Careful with this advice; beware slipstreams.

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 00:05:01 -0700, mia vai
wrote:

Hi few days ago my computer got virus and crash.

What virus?


Although I have Norton anti
virus software install in my computer.

Norton is the *worst* anti-virus product available. You were
*not* adequately protected.
Completely untrue.


Anyway I fixed it by clean hard drive
and reinstall windows xp os.

That is almost always a very poor way to proceed if you have a
virus. Viruses can usually be removed if you do it properly with
good software.
It's often faster to do a clean install of windows than to spend
excessive time chasing down malware, especially for an as yet
inexperienced person in those areas. What might really be missing
here is a good backup strategy.


My computer has 2 hard drive primary 80gb and
slave drive is 500gb. Problem is when I open my computer
property there is 3 hard drive, drive C, drive D, and drive E.

If you ended up with more partitions than you wanted, you did the
installation improperly. Exactly how did you do it? Please
describe the steps completely.
Most likely.


I assume E is the slave drive,
which suppose to be 500gb now it's showing only 127 GB.

You probably installed with an old copy of Windows XP. If you
don't install with at least SP1, a drive that large won't be
supported. You need to slipstream a service pack--preferably the
latest one, SP3--onto a CD and redo the installation.
Probably. But slipstreams are catastrophic failures for many new
to the process since they have no way of testing them without
risking their drives again and spending much more time. A proper
back up strategy nicely sidesteps that whole thing.


I don't know what
went wrong. Somebody please help me to fix that problem. Thank
you.

JS wrote:
Twayne,

CD media quality and burners can make a big difference
in how long the media last. Sunlight and humidity can make
short work on cheap media.

As John John mentioned factory CDs are pressed so I would
expect them to last longer, but that doesn't mean you can't get
a bad CD fresh from the factory as I recently experienced and
confirmed with the vendor's tech support.

That's true. I've had quite a few duds fresh from the factory. My
source has always taken my word for it and included extra disks in the
next order though. However I'm not buying music CDs/DVDs; they're
almost all used for data and/or program delivery.

Twayne



"Twayne" wrote in message
...
John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not
as though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But
that has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of life
with homemade burned cds.

That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade" as
you imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is someting
else at work; once burned, they're physically "set". You could have
misaligned heads where it might not work in another drive, but
that's about all. Twayne`


John

DL wrote:
Slipstream has allways worked for me, on various systems

"Twayne" wrote in message
...
Careful with this advice; beware slipstreams.

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2009 00:05:01 -0700, mia vai
wrote:

Hi few days ago my computer got virus and crash.

What virus?


Although I have Norton anti
virus software install in my computer.

Norton is the *worst* anti-virus product available. You were
*not* adequately protected.
Completely untrue.


Anyway I fixed it by clean hard drive
and reinstall windows xp os.

That is almost always a very poor way to proceed if you have a
virus. Viruses can usually be removed if you do it properly with
good software.
It's often faster to do a clean install of windows than to spend
excessive time chasing down malware, especially for an as yet
inexperienced person in those areas. What might really be missing
here is a good backup strategy.


My computer has 2 hard drive primary 80gb and
slave drive is 500gb. Problem is when I open my computer
property there is 3 hard drive, drive C, drive D, and drive E.

If you ended up with more partitions than you wanted, you did the
installation improperly. Exactly how did you do it? Please
describe the steps completely.
Most likely.


I assume E is the slave drive,
which suppose to be 500gb now it's showing only 127 GB.

You probably installed with an old copy of Windows XP. If you
don't install with at least SP1, a drive that large won't be
supported. You need to slipstream a service pack--preferably the
latest one, SP3--onto a CD and redo the installation.
Probably. But slipstreams are catastrophic failures for many new
to the process since they have no way of testing them without
risking their drives again and spending much more time. A proper
back up strategy nicely sidesteps that whole thing.


I don't know what
went wrong. Somebody please help me to fix that problem. Thank
you.

Twayne wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
Twayne wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not
as though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But
that has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of life
with homemade burned cds.
That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade" as
you imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is someting
else at work; once burned, they're physically "set". You could have
misaligned heads where it might not work in another drive, but
that's about all.

Home made burned cds are getting better but for most part they just
don't last as long as factory pressed cds, that is a fact, just
because you don't know the difference doesn't make it untrue. The
quality and durability of the homemade cd will depend on the quality
of the media as well as the quality of the burner used to make them.
Factory cd aren't burned, they're pressed. Leave a homemade cd and a
factory cd exposed to the sun then find out for yourself which one
lasts longer. Use factory music cds and homemade music cds in your
car then find out for yourself which one starts to skip first, find
out for yourself which one fails first. I'm sure that you probably
think that factory cds are burned like homemade ones... you don't
know the difference between the two of them.

John

Wow, you're the uneducated little toad, aren't you? You're not talking
the speed of the original discussion here, you're adding your own
conditions to it.

My first comment was that homemade cds aren't as tough as factory cds,
and I still stand by that comment. It's plainly obvious that you don't
know how cds are manufactured so you added your ignorant comments to the
discussion. Quite frankly it has become well known to all who frequent
these groups that you are nothing more than an ignorant obnoxious troll!
You know absolutely nothing about Windows or computers in general and
other than being a rude jerk you really have little do in life, in our
neck of the woods we call people like you a "waste of oxygen"!

John

Twayne wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
Twayne wrote:
John John - MVP wrote:
Same here. The only thing about them is that homemade cds are not
as though as factory cds, they tend to not last all that long. But
that has nothing to do with slipstreaming, its just a fact of life
with homemade burned cds.
That's not only silly it's patently untrue. CDs do not "degrade" as
you imply. If you have CDs that seem to degrade, there is someting
else at work; once burned, they're physically "set". You could have
misaligned heads where it might not work in another drive, but
that's about all.

Home made burned cds are getting better but for most part they just
don't last as long as factory pressed cds, that is a fact, just
because you don't know the difference doesn't make it untrue. The
quality and durability of the homemade cd will depend on the quality
of the media as well as the quality of the burner used to make them.
Factory cd aren't burned, they're pressed. Leave a homemade cd and a
factory cd exposed to the sun then find out for yourself which one
lasts longer. Use factory music cds and homemade music cds in your
car then find out for yourself which one starts to skip first, find
out for yourself which one fails first. I'm sure that you probably
think that factory cds are burned like homemade ones... you don't
know the difference between the two of them.

John

Wow, you're the uneducated little toad, aren't you? You're not talking
the speed of the original discussion here, you're adding your own
conditions to it.

My first comment was that homemade cds aren't as tough as factory cds,
and I still stand by that comment. It's plainly obvious that you don't
know how cds are manufactured so you added your ignorant comments to the
discussion. Quite frankly it has become well known to all who frequent
these groups that you are nothing more than an ignorant obnoxious troll!
You know absolutely nothing about Windows or computers in general and
other than being a rude jerk you really have little do in life, in our
neck of the woods we call people like you a "waste of oxygen"!

John