Problems with CD-RW after patch...

[Deviancy]

Yeah, it;s obvious you can't run a burner on ata66 :P. But some people install the burners on their available ide ports and that may be an issue. As for this burning issue... if you did a fdisk, then reformatted your drive then did a reinstall of the os and still had the issue.... it's either your burner or your ide port. The end. A game patch cannot fry a burner, that's impossible. It can corrupt the drivers, possibly. But a clean format and fdisk would restore that. Hrmm.. you weren't running the game off of the cdrw, right? You don't have the burner daisy chained do you?

Try uninstalling the cdrw, try a different ide port, reinstall the drivers. Or like I said, try a different form of media for the burn. Like I said, some cdr's are problematic, like acers..

[DrMaximus]

Fixed my problem, Reinstalled the game and did not install the patch and now my CDRW works again.

[Dasa]

Originally posted by Deviancy:
Yeah, it;s obvious you can't run a burner on ata66 :P. But some people install the burners on their available ide ports and that may be an issue.

Didn't quite understand this... you mean I can't install a burner to ATA66 IDE port??!
(you probably didn't mean that...)

As for this burning issue... if you did a fdisk, then reformatted your drive then did a reinstall of the os and still had the issue.... it's either your burner or your ide port. The end. A game patch cannot fry a burner, that's impossible. It can corrupt the drivers, possibly.

Well I just formatted the driver didn't feel like deleting the partition and then adding it back. Usually formatting has been enough for Windows reinstall.

I was hoping for just corrupted driver and that's why I reinstalled windows... quess it wasn't drivers

Hrmm.. you weren't running the game off of the cdrw, right? You don't have the burner daisy chained do you?

Yes I was actually... :I Does it really matter? What does 'daisy chained' mean?

Try uninstalling the cdrw, try a different ide port, reinstall the drivers.

Different IDE port... hmmm have to try that. BTW. could a broken or loose cable prevent fast burns but allow slower burn?

Thanks

[This message has been edited by Dasa (edited 07-31-2001).]

[This message has been edited by Dasa (edited 07-31-2001).]

[Lt_Saavik]

I have a CD burner on my system that I gave up a long time ago. A friend asked me to test his CD burner awhile back. So, I didn't bother with it since then. He he he..

However, I did install the patch.....

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