P3D Re: Back from the DDDead - Part II

[Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999
>From: fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dr. George A. Themelis)
>................
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>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.
>


Your problem here is the software used to record the CD's. Chances are you
are using software that uses something called *packets*. While this is nice
in the right system, it is far from universal to all CD readers. You should
try to find additional recording software that does NOT use packets, and
then the results will or should be readable on most CD's. The program that
supposedly works without packets is called Easy CD Creator. In addition,
there are options that can be set relative to using the 8.3 DOS file names
from older computers. If you select this method, the results will be
readable on just about every machine, but make sure you aren't using long
filenames anywhere! I don't mind the results being Win95 only, so I don't
use the 8.3 option. (it's called something else and I don't remember what.
Read the information in the various option panels)

I have had similar problems, and installed the new software that doesn't use
packets, but haven't gotten the new software to work correctly... Arghhh! I
guess I'll have to reinstall it.

Generally, run scandisk every day, and defragment your hard drive about once
a week or so. Some persons do that daily, but I've never had to do it that
often. Typical fragmentation levels are around 3%. Even though the words on
your screen may say you don't need to defragment at that point, do it anyway.

I occasionally take a direct look at Windows/Temp, because often programs
that store temporary stuff there don't follow through properly and delete it
later. I have to do it manually. Try to keep a minimum of 100 MB available
as empty space.

Bye,


Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
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