Windows 2000 and CD-RWs

[wiskic10_4]

lol... case closed, I suppose... thanks guys... I guess I could've figured this one out on my own... and Rep points to cross for telling me what I needed to know, not what I wanted to hear...

thanks again, damn AO cronies... I will post w/ a verification, though...

-wiski

[wiskic10_4]

VERIFIED.

Haven't been able to find any CD-RWs at Wal-Mart, etc aside from the Memorex ultra-speeds... but earlier I went into the local Radioshack - this place has some really old inventory in-stock... I found a 3-pack of Fujifilm 4x CD-RWs for $5... burnt some MP3s to one of them, slapped it into the ol' jukebox and... EUREKA!

I just love it when things work like they're supposed to...

Thanks again to cross, nihil and mohaughn... and forgive me for not researching my manufacturer's products... should have figured this one out on my own, I guess... but I'm stubborn... in my head, a CD-RW is a CD-RW... and I still don't understand why the ultra-speeds didn't work when burned @ 4x... but anyway... problem solved...

Thanks guys...

-wiski

[phishphreek]

wiski: Indeed, a cdr should be a cdr. As you have found out, that is not always the case. Too bad most consumers would have never figured this out.

I've been taking on one or two "side jobs" a week for some extra cash. Many of the errors that people have are either user error or compatibility issues. They just assume that everything will work. Guess they get that from the Apple commercials? Many times I feel bad for them and only charge 50%, but I'm already operating at 30% of what geek squad charges. I can't get much lower and expect to pay for a wedding.

[wiskic10_4]

phishphreek80

yeah, I understand that... the thing is, I used to do this kind of work for a living... I'm only 24, but I'm not exaggerating when I say "I've forgotten more than most people know" - I dropped outta school 124/136 hours for a comp sci degree... used to be the administrator of the comp sci lab, tutor students, repair computers on the side *and* work irrigation 52 hrs/wk... and I was *still* living on picante-sauce sandwiches and Ice-House beer... I decided to get on a drilling rig @ $20/hr + ridiculous bonus pay... that was about a year ago...

but it seems I've forgotten everything I ever knew... ffs, I could've at least checked up on my media before posting this **** on AO... but, alas... I've become brain-dead oilfield-trash... anyway...

gotta keep the computer on, right? (and lights are nice, too...)

-wiski

[cross]

Always glad to have helped.
I have been away from the forums for a while, and am just now starting to post again.
Things have changed a lot here in my absence, but I'm hoping it is still a community of people willing to help eachother learn and solve problems.

Happy to see everything is working now.

[nihil]

Hi -wiski, thanks for letting us know the outcome.

CD/DVD is a really messy area for incompatibilities. Also some of the media is downright rubbish, and even varies from batch to batch with brand name stuff. A lot of it isn't made by the name on the box, it is outsourced and labelled. So, you get variations depending on what factory it was made at.

In theory, I would have thought that the ultra media should have at least played on the old drive (it certainly won't RW), but theory and what actually happens are very different

I have several customers with quite old drives so I have come across this problem before. They only do basic computing tasks and use the drives for backups, so they don't see any need to replace something that is still working.