Urgent HELP required on CD-ROM drive...

[Trent©]

X-No-archive: yes

Hello, My CD-ROM (D drive isn't working.

Make sure you don't have another drive...or other device...that may
change drive letters occasionally and automatically...digital camera,
etc. Its always best to re-letter optical drives...readers to R and
writers to W...so that there is no unexpected conflict.

It won't run any CDs,

Define 'run'. Automatic start-up isn't always automatic. You need to
configure your OS on how to handle different kinds of files that may
be on the cd.

Can you read the cd's thru Windows Explorer? If so, there's probably
nothing wrong with the cdrom.

and reads
them all as audio ones.

Store-bought with programs? Store-bought with songs? Burned-at-home
cd's? Are you using music cd's to burn...by mistake?

It won't list the contents of CDs, or shows them all
having one file.

Which is it?

At any rate, it doesn't sound like the problem is with the cdrom.

I use Windows XP.

Have you applied the latest service pack?...and all the latest
updates?

Good luck...let us know.

P.S. If yer posting thru Google...or any other archiving
facility...you won't be able to read this message.

This is by design! lol


Have a nice week...

Trent

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[kony]

On 06 Mar 2004 03:22:39 GMT, (e-mail address removed)0junk0k
(Holidayletlondon) wrote:

If someone uses 'X-No-archive: yes' - it does NOT mean they are selfish.

The claim is less significant than the result.

To make such judgements about complete strangers, is just plain ignorance.

Not complete ignorance, we know that you have a broken CDROM, a problem
sharing with others, and a touch of paranoia. Likely there are plenty of
positive things about you but in your effort to preserve privacy you've
only revealed negatives.

People
have a right to privacy and anonymity on the Internet. Privacy is a basic
human right. That's why such things like 'X-No-archive: yes' exist.

Nonsense. The internet is a public domain, you reserve no right to
privacy as to details you willingly reveal in public.

Having choices and options is a very good thing.

Well, I was confused about that but fortunately you set me straight.
I will just refrain from replying to your posts.

 

[kony]

If they want to use my posts, they need to pay me first.

.... or offer something in return, like the best access to information in
the history of mankind (perhaps ignoring libraries, which aren't yet
anywhere near fully online).

 

[Cerridwen]

Why not replace the computer?


Have a nice week...

Trent

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!

Erm, maybe because a new CD drive is £15-£20 - and to replace the entire
system would cost maybe forty times that? These days CD drives are the
ultimate throwaway - there's no point in attempting to repair them, because
a new one is always cheaper.

Don't you ever tire of being facetious?

 

[Cerridwen]

... or offer something in return, like the best access to information
in the history of mankind (perhaps ignoring libraries, which aren't
yet anywhere near fully online).

Whilst I don't want to become embroiled in - yet another - heated debate
(there seem to be rather too many around for my liking at the moment - top
vs. bottom posting, whether terms like RTFM, SNAFU, FUBAR, STFW and ****wit
were to be considered offensive - especially when most have been in use
since at least WWII) I will admit to having used the delimiter in question
on rare occasions (in uk.people.support.depression for example).

However, it's use in a technical help forum is totally ludicrous! What on
earth do you have to hide?! And I agree with Kony, Google provides the best
resources there is - not to mention the little bit of fun they provide with
their holiday logos (which I will admit to being an avid collector of - yes,
there is no hope!)

Mind you, while we're on the topic of ridiculous censorship, I was watching
something the other day and they bleeped out the word 'arse' - a term that's
been in use since (at least) the Middle Ages! If something can still be
considered offensive after 800 years, maybe those who think WWII military
acronyms are offensive have a point...

 

[CBFalconer]

All I did was ask a simple and harmless question. I asked for
help, that's all. I think it's quite sad the way some people
feel the need to find fault in anything and everything. If
someone wants to use 'X-No-archive: yes' in their posts - it's
their choice. And people like you - can mind their own business.

Don't get your water hot. All I said was that I choose not to
hand out advice to people who use it, so that such people would be
aware of my (and possibly others) attitude. After that I answered
other peoples questions.

 

[CBFalconer]

Yeppers, there is at least one. One of the great things about
newsgroup archiving, especially in the computer sections, is that
it provides for a means to look up a problem that has occurred
before, without having to ask it a second or third or fourth time.

Not only that, but the flag prevents those who use google for
current newsgroup access (and put up with six odd hour delays)
from ever seeing the posts. Many firms don't provide newsgroup
access, and the only way to access them is via HTML and google.

 

[kony]

Erm, maybe because a new CD drive is £15-£20 - and to replace the entire
system would cost maybe forty times that? These days CD drives are the
ultimate throwaway - there's no point in attempting to repair them, because
a new one is always cheaper.

.... or just replace the user?

 

[Cerridwen]

On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 05:36:50 -0000, "Cerridwen"



... or just replace the user?

Was that directed at me, Trent or the OP?

 

[kony]

wrote:

Was that directed at me, Trent or the OP?

Yes

Welcome to the matrix. <EG>

 

[JT]

theywould not help someone they considered too selfish to share >with
posterity. Your choice not to share. His a choice to share his >thoughts with
you. That is how usenet works. Don't like it. Tough.


How am I selfish? Just because someone uses 'X-No-archive: yes' in their posts
- that makes them selfish?! It's called freedom of choice. What an
overcritical idiot you are. Just like the other guy. And if you don't like my
answer - tough. lol

You arre the one that started whining because someone criticized you. You
have the freedom to use x-no-archive:yes. It is considered selfish in a
technical group, because it removes part of the conversation that could be
useful for others with the problem.

Usenet technical groups are about sharing information. When you wish to
remove yourself from the history and sharing of technical information, you
can be called on that. That is also freedom of choice and freedom of
expression. Others will tell you they don't wish to share with you and why.
That is their freedom of expression. If they choose not to share with those
that don't seem willing share, that is their freedom of choice.

Your freedom of choice to be selfish does not eliminate our freedom of
expression to call you on it. Welcome to the real world.

JT

 

[CBFalconer]

... or offer something in return, like the best access to
information in the history of mankind (perhaps ignoring
libraries, which aren't yet anywhere near fully online).

In point of fact they don't need to pay anybody. Google
voluntarily heeds the X-no-archive flag, as did deja before them.
If they wish they can ignore it. So can anyone else.

 

[Holidayletlondon]

In reply to
"JT" datacare@www:

No one cares what you think. You're a nobody, with nothing better to do than
put down strangers, for no reason - get a life. And stop being so patronising.
Just go away, and leave others alone - for good.

 

[Holidayletlondon]

In reply to: "JT" datacare@www

No one cares what you think. You're a nobody, with nothing better to do than
put down strangers, for no reason. Get a life. And stop being so patronising.
I have news for you. I've been in the real world all my life. Just go away,
and leave others alone - for good.

 

[Trent©]

... or offer something in return, like the best access to information in
the history of mankind (perhaps ignoring libraries, which aren't yet
anywhere near fully online).

They why do you even ANSWER any posts here? What is the PURPOSE of
these groups then?

We (these groups) were doing very well...thank you very much...before
the advent of Google.

I don't allow archiving...and I'm still able to answer and help others
here.


Have a nice week...

Trent

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!

 

[Trent©]

Usenet technical groups are about sharing information.

Exactly.

Ask here...get a reply here.

And that's all the OP tried to do...until somebody with an ego problem
jumped his ass.

Google...and other companies...need not apply.


Have a nice week...

Trent

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!

 

[kony]

They why do you even ANSWER any posts here? What is the PURPOSE of
these groups then?

We (these groups) were doing very well...thank you very much...before
the advent of Google.

I don't allow archiving...and I'm still able to answer and help others
here.

I can only hope people do a bit of searching for the answers before
asking, that the purpose of the group is to resolve new problems, cover
new ground.

Many people aren't even aware, or at least nost accustomed to using usenet
to get help or exhange ideas, particularly the younger generation. By
archiving a post your reply might help not only the original poster but
300 other people with the same problem who don't even know that
alt.comp.hardware exists. On the other hand we could have the same
questions asked multiple times per week, month after month after month,
which does happen but much, much less often because of google.

 

[Trent©]

I can only hope people do a bit of searching for the answers before
asking,

Why, for heavens sake?!

that the purpose of the group is to resolve new problems, cover
new ground.

In YOUR mind, of course. That's not the purpose of this group as *I*
see it. And I would imagine most everybody here has their own idea as
to the many purposes of this group.

Many people aren't even aware, or at least nost accustomed to using usenet
to get help or exhange ideas, particularly the younger generation.

And many folks are not aware that Google can search thru newsgroup
archives.

By
archiving a post your reply might help not only the original poster but
300 other people with the same problem who don't even know that
alt.comp.hardware exists. On the other hand we could have the same
questions asked multiple times per week, month after month after month,
which does happen but much, much less often because of google.

We could go on and on...back and forth.

Bottom line...the OP and everyone else that goes 'no archive' has
their own reason. And we have a right to that option.

BTW...the authors of Google just hit the Forbes billionaire list this
year for the first time! lol

Last post by me on this.


Have a nice week...

Trent

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!