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Thread ID: 4465 2000-06-04 03:39:00 Adaptec CD Direct Disk format Guest (0) Press F1
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4949 2000-06-04 03:39:00 When trying to format a CD-RW disk so that explorer and MS Office programmes are able to write direct to the disk the following happens:
I follow the instructions in the Direct CD Wizard to the end; the disk begins to format (for about 1 second) then the following error message appears:
ERROR: FORMAT UNIT
ERROR: 0x8040803
Follwed by the comment: You will not be able to read and write to the disk through drive access. After one or two tries the system locks up.
I have checked the Adaptec website for info without success and installed updates and patches available. Any help with this problem would be appreciated.
System info:
PIII 600, 128 Mb Ram
Macrocom computer, chaintech M/B with onboard sound, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 64 video, Lucent Win Modem, Win 98 SE, Office 2000 Prof,dives; Partitioned hard drive C,D; 50x CD Rom E, Secondary master; HP 9100i CD Writer F, Secondary slave; Adaptec CD Direct 3.0 & Easy CD 3.5c (supplied with drive).
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