Curious CD-RW Behaviour

[OneEye]

I dunno but your clock is fast and your posting from the future.

 

[grahamilton]

maybe..

Have you tried brand new CD-RWs, you can only write to a CD-RW so many times
and then they become unusable

 

[Larc]

| I don't think so. I actually wrote it on the afternoon of Monday the 4th of
| August 2003 (Australian time), that's what it was clocked at. The clock is
| spot on.

Something is wrong. It showed up on my system as 6:04 PM, same date, Eastern
Daylight Time (US East Coast). But it's now only 9:28 AM!

Larc



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[Ken Blake]

In [email protected], wfb wrote:

I don't think so. I actually wrote it on the afternoon of Monday the
4th of August 2003 (Australian time), that's what it was clocked at.
The clock is spot on.

Then you probably have the time zone set wrong, which has the same effect.

 

[R. C. White]

Yep. Like so many others, his time zone is still set to -0700, which is PST
(Pacific Standard Time in the USA) - where Microsoft's home office is.

So, WFB, please tell your Windows that you're not in Redmond anymore. ;<)

RC
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San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP

I don't think so. I actually wrote it on the afternoon of Monday the
4th of August 2003 (Australian time), that's what it was clocked at.
The clock is spot on.

Then you probably have the time zone set wrong, which has the same effect.

 

[wfb]

Around Christmas time I did a clean install of Windows XP on my Toshiba
laptop. Everything worked more or less fine. In particular I could burn
CD-Rs and CD-RW using my external HP cd-writer together with the RecordNow
and DLA software. I say more or less fine because some of the CD-RW created
using the older MyCD software running under Windows 98 were unreadable --
which I understand from reading here and elsewhere isn't unusual.

Last month I wiped the hard drive and did another clean install. I sometimes
test new gear using the computer and basically the sheer number of hardware
drivers tends to affect performance after a while. Incidentally this is a
major endorsement of XP, under 98 and ME I generally needed to clean install
every two to three months -- eight months is a big improvement.

Since the clean install, I haven't been able to burn a CD or use any of my
CD-RW discs. I can still read some of the CD-RW discs (but fewer than before
and not those created in the last eight months). I'm pretty certain the
applications haven't changed since I first moved to XP, so the only
explanation I can come up with is that something in the recent XP updates or
one of the newer drivers is causeing the problem.

Also, I can read some CD-RW in my laptop's CD-R driver, but not in the
CD-RW. I suspect this is a pointer to the problem, but can't figure out the
next step.

There's something else too. In the past I've used a program called UDFRead
to look at some of my old discs, last week I downloaded the latest version
of this program, 5.1.1.213 but it no longer installs -- I get an error
message if I try.

I've tried a second clean install, but ... no success.

 

[wfb]

Yes, you're right. This is what happens when you keep reinstalling Windows.

I don't think so. I actually wrote it on the afternoon of Monday the
4th of August 2003 (Australian time), that's what it was clocked at.
The clock is spot on.

Then you probably have the time zone set wrong, which has the same effect.

 

[wfb]

I don't think so. I actually wrote it on the afternoon of Monday the 4th of
August 2003 (Australian time), that's what it was clocked at. The clock is
spot on.