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Robin McInnes
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 Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:21 pm Post subject: CD-RW Drive hangs when copying large files |
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Hi,
Following advice from a 'Microsoft Online Professional' in connection with a
relatively minor problem with MS Outlook, I attempted to uninstall Office
manually by deleting registry entries and explorer files. It was all done to
this person's instruction, but something has gone amiss with the process and
he now tells me that 'following consultation and research' he has found that
the best solution is to re-install my operation system! Sledgehammer & nut
scenario, but after some thought I've decided to go ahead with this idea and
do a spring clean of my whole system at the same time. (This is a CD problem
I'm posting; bear with me...)
The problem is that now I have begun trying to back-up all my stuff, my
CD-RW drive keeps going into 'not responding' mode when I attempt to copy
large files. This completely hangs my machine and requires a re-boot each
time it does it.
The CD-RW drive seems to be happy when I ask it to copy small files, and
will copy hundreds of .jpgs quite satisfactorily onto CD. But when I try to
copy or write a file over about 30MB in size this problem manifests itself,
and my machine hangs.
I'm thinking along the lines of maybe the CD-RW is trying to write too fast
for my system or something, but I cannot think how to slow it down. I've
looked at it in device manager, but I cannot find a dialog which gives a
speed option.
I'm running Windows XP Pro on a Packard Bell PC with a 1GHz Intel Celeron
processor. My CD-RW is a Lite-On LTR-24102B.
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Cheers,
Robin
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Panos Papadopolous
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:12 am Post subject: Re: CD-RW Drive hangs when copying large files |
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"Robin McInnes" <robin@billycorps.fsnet.spam-tr-ap.co.uk> wrote in message
news:c4bs8c$bl2$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
| Quote: | Hi,
Following advice from a 'Microsoft Online Professional' in connection with
a
relatively minor problem with MS Outlook, I attempted to uninstall Office
manually by deleting registry entries and explorer files. It was all done
to
this person's instruction, but something has gone amiss with the process
and
he now tells me that 'following consultation and research' he has found
that
the best solution is to re-install my operation system! Sledgehammer & nut
scenario, but after some thought I've decided to go ahead with this idea
and
do a spring clean of my whole system at the same time. (This is a CD
problem
I'm posting; bear with me...)
The problem is that now I have begun trying to back-up all my stuff, my
CD-RW drive keeps going into 'not responding' mode when I attempt to copy
large files. This completely hangs my machine and requires a re-boot each
time it does it.
The CD-RW drive seems to be happy when I ask it to copy small files, and
will copy hundreds of .jpgs quite satisfactorily onto CD. But when I try
to
copy or write a file over about 30MB in size this problem manifests
itself,
and my machine hangs.
I'm thinking along the lines of maybe the CD-RW is trying to write too
fast
for my system or something, but I cannot think how to slow it down. I've
looked at it in device manager, but I cannot find a dialog which gives a
speed option.
I'm running Windows XP Pro on a Packard Bell PC with a 1GHz Intel Celeron
processor. My CD-RW is a Lite-On LTR-24102B.
--
Cheers,
Robin
(Email address contains a spamtrap. Remove it to email me.)
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The speed options are in the burning program. Find them and set burn to a
lower speed.
OR
Set the burning software to first copy to your hard drive, and then to cd
disk. |
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smh
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 11:55 am Post subject: Re: CD-RW Drive hangs when copying large files |
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"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
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(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)
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(Messages 10, 12 -- 34, 54 -- 69)
( No pipsqueaks have been able to prove ANY of the above is a libel )
( -- despite Mikey's supposed to have proof of misquotes!!! )
Robin McInnes wrote:
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Hi,
Following advice from a 'Microsoft Online Professional' in connection with a
relatively minor problem with MS Outlook, I attempted to uninstall Office
manually by deleting registry entries and explorer files. It was all done to
this person's instruction, but something has gone amiss with the process and
he now tells me that 'following consultation and research' he has found that
the best solution is to re-install my operation system! Sledgehammer & nut
scenario, but after some thought I've decided to go ahead with this idea and
do a spring clean of my whole system at the same time. (This is a CD problem
I'm posting; bear with me...)
The problem is that now I have begun trying to back-up all my stuff, my
CD-RW drive keeps going into 'not responding' mode when I attempt to copy
large files. This completely hangs my machine and requires a re-boot each
time it does it.
The CD-RW drive seems to be happy when I ask it to copy small files, and
will copy hundreds of .jpgs quite satisfactorily onto CD. But when I try to
copy or write a file over about 30MB in size this problem manifests itself,
and my machine hangs.
I'm thinking along the lines of maybe the CD-RW is trying to write too fast
for my system or something, but I cannot think how to slow it down. I've
looked at it in device manager, but I cannot find a dialog which gives a
speed option.
I'm running Windows XP Pro on a Packard Bell PC with a 1GHz Intel Celeron
processor. My CD-RW is a Lite-On LTR-24102B.
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Check if DMA is on. Is the hard drive defragged? Clean out Temp
directory? Is there enough free hard disk space? |
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