P3D Back from the DDDead - Part II

[fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dr. George A. Themelis)]

We continue with DrT's computer problems... 

After many frustrating hours I removed the fatal error and got back to
"normal" (typical annoying problems).  At the same time I bought  an
external Philips CD ReWritable unit for my wife.  I thought this would
solve my backup problems too.  

I installed it in her computer with absolutely no problems.  Then I tried
to install it in mine.  Fatal error during installation!  Finally, I got
around that, but something was wrong and while things appeared to be
working fine, the CD unit would go nuts and ruin the CDs.

FINALLY, I decided to take deeper action (that's the 3D connection!)  I
removed all peripherals from my computer.  I cleaned the hard drive. 
(That's when I discovered that a TEMP folder under WINDOWS was occupying
300 MB of memory of dangerous garbage!  That's where my lost memory was...)

My hard disc had errors which were fixed and was 12% fragmented (the
computer guy at work says he has never heard of such a high percentage). 
With a clean and defragmented disc, I reinstalled the CD ReWritable and
video drivers and took care of a couple "conflicts".

And, OH GOD OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY, my problems were solved!!!  I now have
a working computer, no crashes no freezes, plenty of space in my hard
drive, a working CD that allowed me to back up my important files in only
two CDs (first backup in 3 years!!!)

My computer problems appear to be solved (fingers crossed).  Only one thing
bugs me:  The CD-R's that I am now creating cannot be read by my computer's
CD-ROM even though they can be read with by other Pentium of the same era
that I tried.  I am going to buy a faster CD-ROM unit tonight that can read
both CD-R's and CD-RW's.

So, what is next???

George Themelis


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