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47301	2002-05-05 19:14:00	Problems with writing CDs under Windows XP continue - see a previous post - but perhaps I concluded prematurely that MS's own 'CD Writing Wizard' was making me coasters. Twice now, I have written a CD-R-load of files off the hard disk of my XP system to find they don't show up when I click on the drive icon in the same system. BUT, when I take the CD across to my old Windows 98 system, the files show up perfectly. Take it back to the XP machine, they've gone again. Then, after a few hours or a day, I insert the CD in the XP system, and the files show up. On the most recent occasion, I tried everything; remove and reinsert the CD; close and relaunch My Computer, Windows Explorer, etc, reboot. No way, it seems, can I speed up the 'recognition' process. I just have to wait for the CD to 'cook' or 'mature' in some strange way. Can this be rationally explained? And how do I get to see the files (and have confidence in emptying my Recycle Bin) immediately after I've written them? I know; the answer is 'use Ahead Nero' (or something similar). I resent having to pay $US50 for independent software, because the MS software doesn't work. Any answer? Or could it just be a problem with the drive on the XP system?	Guest (0)
47302	2002-05-06 05:11:00	Hi Steve, I too have written to CD-R's lately from the hard disk I have M.E system, only to find they don't show up, but a message box appears with the message 'RealOne player couldn't get a network connection to get information for this CD. If you are on line at this time, Select 'Assume I'm online' from the connection tab in Preferences and try again later. OK. So I click on OK, and another message box appears saying 'No playable clips found, RealOne Player can not play the file types on this disc', OK. Then darn problem is the computer because the only thing on the CD's is DATA, I know this because I brought, unwrapped them myself. I then pressed the eject button on the writer to open the draw and closed it again without removing the disc. And low and behold the damn data was there. Previously it asked to scan the disk for errors so I did so. Lost all the data I had loaded. But this time I didn't gain another coaster. If only I had though of this sooner I might not have ended up with eight 120mm coasters or clock faces. Hope the helps or not. I to resent having to pay $US50 for independent software, because the MS software doesn't work. My system is all HP. Dave (merlin)	Guest (0)
47303	2002-05-06 05:32:00	That looks like an 'advanced feature' to me. It is 'obviously more efficient' to read directories *once* when a disk is mounted. Especially a CD -- after all, it's a RO medium (or was when someone thought of this). But it's a CD RW --- the content has changed, and you want a directory. The system knows it has cached a directory for that disk ... Oops. Happy user. Have a look at the tool bar options to do with directories. Look for 'Refresh'. I'm not up to date with Windows (and never will be) but there *ought* to be something to get around this.	Guest (0)
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