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| Thread ID: 25687 | 2002-10-09 22:33:00 | Problems Formatting with InCd | Danger (287) | Press F1 |
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| 87606 | 2002-10-10 04:28:00 | Some burners just don't like certain disks, it's a fact of life. It pays to buy just a few of a new brand to see if your burner gets on with them before you buy in bulk. Also, you won't want to hear this, but I was told to avoid Acer burners by someone who had theirs replaced three times before finally giving up and going to another brand. I have read of other people having problems with their Acers as well, so if you continue to have problems even with other disks and your PC is still under warranty, get it back to the shop pronto. Hopefully all you'll need to do is change your brand of disk. :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 87607 | 2002-10-10 04:46:00 | Thanks for that Susan, the disk I managed to format today was an Acer Highspeed, which I was able to burn at 10 x as opposed to these Mitsubishi ones that are only 4 x speed. Is it only 650 mb CDRW's that you can get at high speed? I looked in DSE, Whse, and Noel Lemings for high speed 700 mb disks, but it seems they don't exist. | Danger (287) | ||
| 87608 | 2002-10-10 06:35:00 | My disc that has given up the ghost, was a sony. I now use an Aopen - 4x to 12x - that came with my new cd burner, but dont think that they are available anywhere. Thanks for joing in Susan. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 87609 | 2002-10-10 06:53:00 | I have got Verbatim and Imation CD-R 700MB 1x-24x disks and Imation CD-RW 650MB 4x-10x disks. The CD-RW disks are generally a lot slower than the CD-R ones and they don't hold quite as much. All my disks were the cheapest from Dragon PC Supplies in ChCh but the retail shops should sell them. I haven't seen any CD-RWs that burn faster than 10x but it doesn't matter to me anyway because my burner won't go faster than that. And I can only burn at 24x max for CD-R but that's fast enough for me - I burn my music at 8x anyway, to minimise the chances of duds. :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 87610 | 2002-10-10 07:19:00 | When I first burned My Documents back up I discovered that it was 607mb large so I thought it best to put it on a 700mb disc to allow for growth when I updated it, as it turns out I hadn't formated it anyway, but the intention was there. Which brings me to compressing the files, which I have never done. I have a compressed folder which I have never used and not sure how too, can I use this somehow to fit more on the discs? And again, I have sent stuff to friends online and they complain about the size, as well as slowing down my end, stuff like pics and sound wavs, can I compress these and send them? Will that speed up the transfer much? Will they be able to open them? I guess I should just experiment with it. Opps, sorry, getting a little off topic. Thanks for all your help Peter and Susan:) |
Danger (287) | ||
| 87611 | 2002-10-10 08:39:00 | >>>Opps, sorry, getting a little off topic. It is getting a bit off topic, but it's your thread! ;-) >I have a compressed folder which I have never used and not sure how too Do you mean a compression program? If so, which one would that be? You can use a compression utility such as WinZip or similar (there is usually one on the PC World magazine disks) to fit more files on your CDs. WinZip is very easy to use. I'm not sure if sound wavs can be compressed without converting them to MP3s. For pictures (images), if they are bitmaps (.bmp) then they can be converted to .jpg (photos) or .gif (less detailed images) files which are much much smaller in size than bitmaps. That's another whole topic in itself but be warned that if you convert your pics to either .jpg or .gif files to only convert a copy of your original because the quality is lost and you will not get it back. Do not compress your original images for storage for this reason. It is fine for emailing to your friends. A very good free image program is IrfanView and that will convert your images for you. That is also on some of the PC World disks otherwise you can download it from here (http://www.irfanview.com/). You can also "zip" word processing and spreadsheet files to send by email to reduce the size. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 87612 | 2002-10-10 09:36:00 | Umm... its just a "Compressed Folder" sitting in my quick launch toolbar, not sure where it came from even. It says to drag files into it to compress them. Guess I'll just have to do that and try it, see what happens, but maybe I should drag copies, not the real files eh? The pics I have sent are already jpg,s so I guess trying to compress them will make no difference. Just realised, as I have configured my desktop not to display any short cuts that it will be hard to drag files into this folder, although I should still be able to cut and paste into it. |
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