Damn fucking CD burner
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Also, don't discount the possibility that the burner may be OK and the blank CD's may be crap. I tried to console myself with that possibility, but somehow the probabilities for 7 CDRs out of 10 CDRs being crappy were so low that despite my sincere attempts, I failed to convince myself as to the absolute well-being of my CD Writer. Nish
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Hey Nish - I've had a box of 10 dud disks, and I know a bunch of guys who've had the same. It's frustrating but it happens. You'll find that eventually you'll settle on a brand of CD that works for you and then go to ridiculous lengths to ensure you only use that brand for fear of the dreaded coffee coaster. AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch :D cheers, Chris Maunder
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Hey Nish - I've had a box of 10 dud disks, and I know a bunch of guys who've had the same. It's frustrating but it happens. You'll find that eventually you'll settle on a brand of CD that works for you and then go to ridiculous lengths to ensure you only use that brand for fear of the dreaded coffee coaster. AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch :D cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch Put a bunch of college guys in a room doing that and you have entertainment for hours, and some nice decorations to boot :-P James Sonork: Hasaki "I left there in the morning with their God tucked underneath my arm their half-assed smiles and the book of rules. So I asked this God a question and by way of firm reply, He said - I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays." "Wind Up" from Aqualung, Jethro Tull 1971
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Hey Nish - I've had a box of 10 dud disks, and I know a bunch of guys who've had the same. It's frustrating but it happens. You'll find that eventually you'll settle on a brand of CD that works for you and then go to ridiculous lengths to ensure you only use that brand for fear of the dreaded coffee coaster. AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch :D cheers, Chris Maunder
Did you ever see Clarkson? It was a British TV show hosted by Jeremy Clarkson - a character much like John Simmons I guess :-D. Anyway, he had a section of show devoted to doing really insane stuff like that - like this one time (not at band camp) he set a home made rocket off in the studio, blew up a washing machine, and (how exactly it was done I can't remember) blew up his microwave. -- Andrew.
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:(( Hopefully the media is the problem and not the drive :) James Sonork: Hasaki "I left there in the morning with their God tucked underneath my arm their half-assed smiles and the book of rules. So I asked this God a question and by way of firm reply, He said - I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays." "Wind Up" from Aqualung, Jethro Tull 1971
James T. Johnson wrote: Hopefully the media is the problem and not the drive Hi James Just woke up now. 6:23 AM. This is my plan for today. In the evening I'll buy some higher quality CDRs and try burning a few CDs. If that fails too, then I'll swap by burner brand for something else. I am feeling quite dull now though. Losing 7 CDs is bad. But more than that, I am shattered by the experience of watching all those failed attempts live. The wasted anticipations and the mammoth frustrations each time a write-attempt fails is terrible. Plus the 3 CDs that I wrote worry me now. Cause after I wrote them and tested that they were okay, I delete the original contents from my hard disk. Now I am worried these 3 will also fuse out on me randomly. Nish
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I am running Windows 2000 professional SP2. I am not using Easy CD creator. I am using Nero Burning ROM software that came with my CD writer. I have enabled DMA for all my IDE channels. I have connected the CD writer as primary slave. The CD writer is a Benq 20X Write/10 X ReWrite 40X Read drive. http://www.benq.com The 10 CDRs [of which 7 now occupy the waste basket] were Acer CDRs [the cover says 1X~24X] On two occasions the entire burn process finished, I got an okay message, the CD ejected, but I could not read from them. The drives [the burner and my old CD drive[ refused to even recognize them as CDs. Nish
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: I have connected the CD writer as primary slave. Oops... Not a good move, Nish. Make it the secondary master, and move the regular CD to the slave slot. You'll like that a lot better.
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Hey Nish - I've had a box of 10 dud disks, and I know a bunch of guys who've had the same. It's frustrating but it happens. You'll find that eventually you'll settle on a brand of CD that works for you and then go to ridiculous lengths to ensure you only use that brand for fear of the dreaded coffee coaster. AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch :D cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch That's a little rough on the ol' magnetron tube, Chris:-D But for entertainment, I've been working on a use for bad CDs - like the ones AOL sends me to level the furniture. We have a contest every July involving frying an egg on the sidewalk at noon. I'm certain I can design a solar concentrator made of CDs - "Powered by AOL"! Something similar might be done with CD-Rs, though it would take more of them.
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James T. Johnson wrote: Hopefully the media is the problem and not the drive Hi James Just woke up now. 6:23 AM. This is my plan for today. In the evening I'll buy some higher quality CDRs and try burning a few CDs. If that fails too, then I'll swap by burner brand for something else. I am feeling quite dull now though. Losing 7 CDs is bad. But more than that, I am shattered by the experience of watching all those failed attempts live. The wasted anticipations and the mammoth frustrations each time a write-attempt fails is terrible. Plus the 3 CDs that I wrote worry me now. Cause after I wrote them and tested that they were okay, I delete the original contents from my hard disk. Now I am worried these 3 will also fuse out on me randomly. Nish
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Check your sonork, good news awaits :) James Sonork: Hasaki "I left there in the morning with their God tucked underneath my arm their half-assed smiles and the book of rules. So I asked this God a question and by way of firm reply, He said - I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays." "Wind Up" from Aqualung, Jethro Tull 1971
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Hey Nish - I've had a box of 10 dud disks, and I know a bunch of guys who've had the same. It's frustrating but it happens. You'll find that eventually you'll settle on a brand of CD that works for you and then go to ridiculous lengths to ensure you only use that brand for fear of the dreaded coffee coaster. AND - if you do create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch :D cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch Can this damage the microwave? It sounds like it's worth a go, but I don't want to harm the machine that warms up my coffee. :-D "There is a fine line between lunacy and genius; it is my goal in life to keep them guessing just where the line lies..." -- Unknown
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Chris Maunder wrote: create dead disks then stick them in the microwave for 5 seconds and watch Can this damage the microwave? It sounds like it's worth a go, but I don't want to harm the machine that warms up my coffee. :-D "There is a fine line between lunacy and genius; it is my goal in life to keep them guessing just where the line lies..." -- Unknown
Daniel Ferguson wrote: but I don't want to harm the machine that warms up my coffee. Recently I discovered that you can make popcorn in the same microwave :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
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P-III 800 MHz/256 MB RAM 16 GB IBM UDMA-II HDD And I was writing at 4X [the lowest allowed speed I could get] Nish
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If I am awake and my eyes are closed, it does not necessarily mean that I am thinking of naked women._
One more thing, did you create a cd image first or did you burn on the fly? If you did on-the-fly burning you might want try creating an image (.nrg) first, and burning that. Maybe defragging the image as well might be a good idea. I use Contig from SysInternals for this. Bruce Duncan CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
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Daniel Ferguson wrote: but I don't want to harm the machine that warms up my coffee. Recently I discovered that you can make popcorn in the same microwave :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
Yeah, I've done that from time to time. It's much easier than trying to make popcorn in a pan with oil or one of those noisy blower things. When I'm at the grocery store I forget to buy more though. I don't use my microwave for real food though, as it tastes like crap. "There is a fine line between lunacy and genius; it is my goal in life to keep them guessing just where the line lies..." -- Unknown