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Thread ID: 16637 2002-03-14 02:36:00 Windows XP CD writing 'wizard' Guest (0) Press F1
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39063 2002-03-14 02:36:00 That's 'wizard' as in 'The Golden Bough', the seminal study of primitive magic in which Sir James Frazer wrote: 'The wizard who
commands most respect from the tribe is not the one whose magic works, but the one who can think of the best excuses for the occasions when
it doesn't work.'

I find quite a few such occasions with the XP CD writer; most recently, this morning, it spent 40 minutes allegedly writing a batch
of files onto a CD-R disk, then after the progress bar had gone all the way to the right-hand end, it presented me with the message 'an
error has occurred; the disk in your CD drive may now be unusable.'
And so it was.

I am certain I had not overflowed the disk (there were 632 M of files
transferred, and I understand the full capacity of the disk is 650 MB, if not more.)

Is anyone else having similar problems with the XP CD writing Wizard?
Or could this be a fault in my drive?

Thanks,

Steve B.
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