Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Nightfox
From : Ed Vance
Date : Wed May 14 2025 12:04 pm


>   Re: Re: floppy disks
>   By: StormTrooper to Nightfox on Mon Apr 28 2025 09:28 am

> I've seen some weird things like that.  One thing I noticed is that if I
> burned CDs on the maximum speed, they'd often read okay in my PC, but other
> CD-ROMs and CD players might have trouble reading it.  I found that it was
> best to burn CDs at the slowest speed available, and that generally helped.

> Nightfox
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MyDVD PLUS is a program HP had installed on my XP box 
It has a setting to Finalize CD/DVD's.
Finalizeing makes the disk readable on other computers.

Would your CD's had needed Finalizing?
Ed
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