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Am I The Only One Who Feels Like Throwing Their Reader & Writer Out the Window?
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| Coup |
Im sure im not the only one who is having more than trouble (understatement there) with copying cd's! i even fkuced up an audio cd just now!! here is the whole story!
LG CD-ROM CRD-8522B (52x)
LG CD-RW CED 8080B (8x 4x 32x)
TDK 74mins
Windows 2000 Pro.
PII 350 64Megs
It all started when i got my LG CD-RW, and the software i got was Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4 (All clever people think "here we go" well ur right, here we go!) and being at that point a total new to burning, software was software in my book. So on goes the software and cd's and cd's of happy burning, never had a prob burning a data (mp3 and apps) couple of CD Copier audio's, no trouble either, at that point i was running Win 98SE over what i have now.
It all went wrong when a friend asked me to copy my worms armageddon cd, being a twat, i put the cd in the reader, the blank in writer, and went into copy cd, hit copy, and it wouldnt, serveral cd's got wasted in this excursion. i asked goodnet and he pointed me to www.gamecopyworld.com, and mizzuno taught me how to use ClonyXL (i speak no german, so XXL is of no use), but XL wouldnt load without some ASPI drivers installed, so blind old me goes and wacks on some ASPI drivers from GCW.com, XL loads, the first disc i copied (still dunno if it worked coz i havent seen the guy since, nice ay) was Worms Arm, had SafeDisc (i think) on it, used CloneCD and made a copy. woohoo! (if only)
Next time i wanted to make a Data cd, i load Ez CD and it wouldnt find my burner, said the bugger didnt exist, tried everything, refused to achnowlage its existance, installed and uninstalled and reinstalled millions of times! nothing.
The PC was a total mess due to many reasons (called sisters) so it needed to be formatted, so it was. Total format, Win 98 SE (Offical CD Not a copy) put back on, i put Ez back straight away, so the whole PC consisted of my hardware, Windows and Ez, and it stilled didnt find my burner, im like what?? Tried everything again and nothing, i tried MANY different softwares including Nero and none of them worked properly, all just either didnt work or made a mess on the CD.
Total reformat again, even removed the master partian, and then put on Windows 2000 Pro, and then as there was nothing, windows formatted it again in NTS (summit like that) file system, so the bugger even got two formats. Started it all up, put back on Ez and still didnt find my burner, so took it off and left it off! i got Nero again and had a good play with it and made a sucessful data cd!! (thro mini-party at this point)
Now came the copying again! put back on XL and CloneCD and the ASPI to boot (incase u think the ASPI is causing all this, ive got a screen shot at the bottom), so the horror of the Unreal Tournament CD is now upon me. It has SafeDisc on it, so i put it in clony, well i typed all this from another thread, ill copy it in: (the mods at www.gamefreaks.com are helping me on this, very cool and helpful guys too!)
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ive also had trouble coping my Unreal Tournament CD. What i do is go into ClonyXL, and click scan CD, it comes up with Safedisc, so i click CloneCD and it loads CloneCD, i click on copy CD, enter all the information (according to the Settings Sticky thread) and when it finally goes to read the cd...it doesnt. the read light on my CD-ROM goes like the clappers but the session % meter doesnt move, at all. It doesnt read if i use my burner instead, ive altered the read speeds like said above but none make a difference, it doesnt make a difference if i use Write to Imagine file either.
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That problem is still here, but this one really takes the piss! my sister asked me to copy a double audio cd, it needed 80mins so i got 80mins. i opened Nero and Wizard > Copy CD, selected the according and click burn, did it? did it ! it fannied around analyzing the CD, got to 49%, and then never moved again, infact the whole pc crashed (Took the Uncrashable Win 2k Pro with it), it took the mouse out so when that goes u no its a gonner!
So i decided to copy it with CloneCD instead, opened it, click CloneCD, went thro all the stuff, i set it to "On The Fly" mode (thats what i used to in Ez Copier) and set the wriite speed to 4x, (8x messes up on on the fly mode coz 'apparntly' the data lead between reader and writer cant handle 8x) and 20mins later (all looks well) the cd is made, i open cd player, play track one, it plays, play track two, it doesnt! nor 3,4,5,6,7, etc.. so it only burned track one, the rest was blank! but come to mention it, i only recall my reader light flashing for about 2mins, and then didnt again, which i thought was odd as it was on the fly but left it anyway! so i cant even copy audio cd's let alone protected ones!!! ive had all this saga for the past say 4 months? great fun when ur burner is brand new!
Ive been told by someone on here that my LG's are just crap basically! lol! but the reader installs apps from cd's and plays games fine, and my burner was fine on that data in Nero and fine for months in Ez, so..?
Just incase you think ASPI is the prob (whatever ASPI actually is anyway, summit to do with layers?), heres my ASPI check:
well i just had to get all that off my chest, am i the only person to have such trouble with my roms?
This is the only area i cant work, im not thick with comps, ive got cable net coz i use it alot, i use irc scripts, ftps (like above), fluent in Photoshop, all sorts, but this i might aswel be a turtle!
Someone must be as thick as me, please, tell me im not alone!!!!
lol! -coup :( |
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| ZinG |
dude i have almost same specs as ur PC.
Dont type all this report and tell me wtf is the prob so i can help u! |
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| flystyler |
| I dont have any probs with my 24x burner. It is prob yr crap comp, and with it being on a while you r getting buffer underrun. A prob i used to get with my old comp and 4x burner. There aint a lot you can do, just dont try doing anything on the comp when you r burning :) |
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| ZinG |
upgrade dude
get a cheapass PIII cpu and 128MB SDRAM with a good motherboard.
And ur Hard disk might be tooo slow or too full.
must be hardware prob. |
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| flystyler |
Ok, should have read the whole post. Well drivers r a huge prob, you could try deleting yr bruner drivers, so windows re detects it, then reinstal them. Or otherwise reinstal windows :)
And i use nero and clone cd with no probs. So try and reinstal the drivers :)
Oh and trust me, that aint bad. I got my new comp, and after one succesful burn it keept chucking out the cd when you put it in, and the draw kept opening and closing at random :)
But i have a line one, or sommit - rebranded Teac, so i know it is good :) |
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| jonsimmonds |
are the cd drives on the same ide chanel?? that can cause probs when copying from cd to cd, also try doing what fly said cos it could be that to
Jon |
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