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CD-Rs work in CD-ROM but fail in laptop DVD drives
I'm having trouble using data CD-Rs in two different laptops that have
internal DVD-ROM drives. It's a real problem because I need to use CD-Rs of installers for Windows 2000 or XP (legal copies - we are permitted, and in fact required to make our own installer CD copies from masters supplied under the MS Academic Alliance program.) When I've tried to re-install the OS from any of my CD-Rs to either laptop, it would begin, start copying files, then pause to report "error copying file XX" (different files on various attempts.) Sometimes hitting enter to retry would move along a few more files then fail again. Swapping in another CD of the same image and retrying yet again also got stuck the same way. I've had the problem in the past week on both Dell Inspiron and a Toshiba Tecra 8100 with internal DVD drives (which of course can use data CDs in general). On the Dell I have fallen back on using a factory-mastered XP Home installer that came with the machine instead, which is working okay. So the drive doesn't seem to be failing outright, just being picky about my CD-Rs. All CD-Rs have been burned in the same burner, an MSI 48-16-48 CDRW drive that I've had a bit over a year. I've tried several copies of the same data on both silver Mitsui CDR-80's (rated to 24x) and silver StarMedia (a cheaper CD-R) as well as at least one earlier burn I had on a silver e-Proformance (rated to 32x). I burn using Nero 5.5.0.2 which came bundled with my burner. The fastest I can write with this setup is 16x, despite the claims of the drive and media labels. I have also tried burning as slow as 4x on a Mitsui, but got the same errors. All these CD-Rs have worked without visible errors in plain CD-ROM drives, but got multiple errors at various points when read in two laptop DVD drives. I tested one Mitsui disk using CDCheck v.3, and it got zero errors and zero warnings. I could of course try going shopping for a variety of other brands of blank, burn this same image to all the brands, and keep trying them until maybe one will work to completion in the laptop's DVD drive. That's a daunting prospect since it means running Windows XP install over and over again ... I'm open to suggestions on either procedure or media choices. Added details: I do support for over 100 PCs, and I've also seen a few cases of a certain CD-ROM drive getting errors reading CDs that I can read just fine in many other devices. I have a cleaning CD that I've tried for some of these, but it rarely makes this problem go away. (In the case of the two laptops I have not used the cleaning CD because neither laptop was bootable, so I couldn't run the audio controls needed to tell the drive play audio track 2 to move the head under the brush.) -- Jim University sysadmin |
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Jim Prall wrote:
I'm having trouble using data CD-Rs in two different laptops that have internal DVD-ROM drives. I suggest you see whether the drive manufacturers have recommendations for a line of media which they will read. I have about a dozen hoarded Kodak Digital Media blanks (gold/gold, ca. 1998, 8x max). They are the only ones the Toshiba CD-ROM drive in my test laptop will read. Mike -- http://www.mrichter.com/ |
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