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30584	2002-01-10 04:47:00	i have access to two computers at our home, one a P166, 12x cd-rom, 64 RAM, 2G hdd WIN98SE; the other, a P550, 320 RAM win 98SE, 50x cd-rom, 20x10x40x cd-rw, 8G Hdd. I have recently created a compilation, on cd, of some programs (eg. IE6, Winamp, WINRAR, MSN messenger, ect) and burnt them onto CD @ 8x write (the slower you go the smaller the mess) and put the cd into the P166, it worked, but very slowly. the next time i tried to use the same cd, the 166 registered the cd as being an audio cd, with one track - a 72min track. it hasnt worked since. what has happened. i have used the exact same cd brand, type, age, batch #, to create a data cd, which worked on the P166. both times i used the P550 to burn the cds. PLEASE, HELP ME!!!!	Guest (0)
30585	2002-01-10 07:27:00	What happens if you try the CD in the P550 James? If it worked once in the P166 it should work again, but what do you mean by 'worked'? It won't be very fast on a 12x player anyway and one that slow will be pretty old too. It might just have dust on the laser and if you have any dirt or fingerprints on the CD that might be enough to stop it. Of course you could have a hardware/software failure but go for the simple things first. Post again once you've tried it in the P550 and P166 after a good clean. If you haven't rebooted the P166 try that too but do a full shutdown and restart (hard boot) rather than a soft boot. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Guest (0)
30586	2002-01-10 08:28:00	Hi James. A lot of the earlier CD rom drives < x18 did not have much in the way of multi read capabilities the way the new drives have today. And they do have a lot of trouble reading CDRs especially CDRWs My advice would be that X8 is still to fast. Drop drown to X4 or X2 and really burn the tracks on. The results will speak for themselves. ==Orac==	Guest (0)
30587	2002-01-13 01:19:00	Hi, i have the same problem with most Cd's, all you have to do is make sure there is no cd in the drive while the computer is starting up, if there is it will read it as a one track wav file. I dont know if there is a way to stop this, and even if you change the CD's it will still read it as a music file if there was a cd in the drive when it was booted.	Guest (0)
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