CD and Floppy in domain

[Guest]

I have 15 new HP machines that will copy to floppy discs and to cd's with no
problems until I join them to the domain. (XP Professional and Windows 2003)

After joining I will get some machines that will burn and others will not.
I will also frequently get floppies that will error as not being formatted or
just will fail. These problems are intermittent. I have tried various
brands of cd's, slowing down the burning speed etc. I always try to copy
from the local disc.

Floppies will generally just fail and revert to saying they are not
formatted, do you want to do it. After formatting they will simply fail and
not be recognized. Again, these indications are general and not repeatable
on a 100% consistent basis.

What could this be? I have been dealing with this one for quite a while and
haven't been able to trace it down.

Thanks,
Albert

 

[R. McCarty]

There are subtle head alignment issues between Floppy disk drives.
It's not uncommon for a diskette formatted/used on one drive to be
unreadable on another physical drive.

Hard to correlate how Domain membership would be the cause of
CD-Burning to fail. Is there a error message or trap code when the
burning fails ? Are you using the native XP burning facility or a 3rd
Party burning application ?

Are you using your own Enterprise image or the default one that
came with the HPs ? If it's the "Factory Image" I'd spend some time
cleaning out all the value-added junk HP installs.

 

[Guest]

Yes, I know it is hard to correlate the domain membership causes cd burning
to fail.

I am using the OEM image that came with the HP's. I won't even go into the
mess I get into when using our open licence upgrade in an attempt to bypass
all the extra "value-add" stuff HP puts in.

I have gone in and gotten rid of any extra value add software with no change
on the machines.

I have also done this with Roxio (with came with the machines) installed and
with it not installed.

This latest lab reload has no restrictions on the machines or users except
for simple domain policies like home page and password policies.

It will usually burn until the point where it is finalizing the cd and then
it fails.

Thanks,
Albert

 

[R. McCarty]

Thanks for the additional info. I would suggest checking both the System
and Application event logs. Specifically, I'd look for Service failures.
Also,
I'd check with AutoRuns to find out what Startups & Watchdogs the HP
machines are loading.
AutoRuns from SysInternals:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html
If you are not using Roxio, I'd run their RoxioZAP utility to remove the
program remnants from the machine - as you may have Upper/Lower filter
drivers left on your Optical recorder's driver.