Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Ed Vance
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed May 14 2025 11:43 am

  Re: Re: floppy disks
  By: Ed Vance to Nightfox on Wed May 14 2025 12:04 pm

 >> 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.

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

 EV> Would your CD's had needed Finalizing?

I always finalized my CDs when burning them.

Nightfox
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