XP system restore
Discussion
Ed, it could be nothing more than the DVD burner is on its way out (how old is it?).
EG, when I bought my desktop back in 2001, I bought a Ricoh 20x CDRW. A firmaware upgrade (OEM, not some kid in his bedroom), and it burned at 40x. Great! A 40-speeder for 20x money. The dream lasted literally just over a year, i.e. just as it went out of warranty. Then one day, I noticed its untimely disappearance from My Computer. Saw it in the BIOS, but nowt in XP. Tried all sorts (including a fancy lens cleaner), but no avail. Thought it might be my PC, so took it into work and chucked it in another XP desktop. Same deal. Phoned Ricoh in the UK who basically said, its out of warranty mate, tough. Vowed never to buy Rico again.
Bought Plextor 52x and never looked back.
If its only a 4.7Gb capable, why not upgrade to a dual layer one? I've just bought Tom an NEC DVD dual layer writer and it its quite superb. OEM kit and it was cheap as chips.
That any good to you?
Greg
EG, when I bought my desktop back in 2001, I bought a Ricoh 20x CDRW. A firmaware upgrade (OEM, not some kid in his bedroom), and it burned at 40x. Great! A 40-speeder for 20x money. The dream lasted literally just over a year, i.e. just as it went out of warranty. Then one day, I noticed its untimely disappearance from My Computer. Saw it in the BIOS, but nowt in XP. Tried all sorts (including a fancy lens cleaner), but no avail. Thought it might be my PC, so took it into work and chucked it in another XP desktop. Same deal. Phoned Ricoh in the UK who basically said, its out of warranty mate, tough. Vowed never to buy Rico again.
Bought Plextor 52x and never looked back.
If its only a 4.7Gb capable, why not upgrade to a dual layer one? I've just bought Tom an NEC DVD dual layer writer and it its quite superb. OEM kit and it was cheap as chips.
That any good to you?
Greg
cheers Greb.. sound advice I've noticed that they're beer money now. Might just try 1 jump back to about a month ago (Which is when it started being useless) & if that's no use ditch it & get me a nice dual layer, which would be handy.
Savastore are doing this chappy
DW-Q30A Dual Layer 16X DVD +/-R/RW oem
£24.10 ex.
£28.32 inc.
!!! bl..dy hell
Ed
Savastore are doing this chappy
DW-Q30A Dual Layer 16X DVD +/-R/RW oem
£24.10 ex.
£28.32 inc.
!!! bl..dy hell
Ed
Ed, check out E-Buyer as well, thats where I got the NEC from (3540, sorry).
The NEC and Pioneer ones are highly rated. Seems the LG GSA-4167 is worth a look too.
Good review site here: www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=14511
Greg
>> Edited by GregE240 on Friday 11th November 00:04
The NEC and Pioneer ones are highly rated. Seems the LG GSA-4167 is worth a look too.
Good review site here: www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=14511
Greg
>> Edited by GregE240 on Friday 11th November 00:04
well took a deep breath having backup loads of stuff to an external drive.. and set XP off doing a restore to about 6 weeks ago. Took quite a while as the progress bar crept along.
LAter... without a hitch.. PC restarted & loaded up all fine. THe result? Exactly the same setup what a swizz. All the stuff I installed recently still installed! Hah
Anyway.. set about uninstalling loads & whatever was making the DVD burning fail has gone as it's A OK now. Some reason I think it may be something I had XPize 4.0 which makes the desktop more 'fancy' but I'll never know as not installing it again just in case!
Ed
LAter... without a hitch.. PC restarted & loaded up all fine. THe result? Exactly the same setup what a swizz. All the stuff I installed recently still installed! Hah
Anyway.. set about uninstalling loads & whatever was making the DVD burning fail has gone as it's A OK now. Some reason I think it may be something I had XPize 4.0 which makes the desktop more 'fancy' but I'll never know as not installing it again just in case!
Ed
I've tried several dual layer pieces of kit and can firmly say that nobody does it better than Pioneer. Currently I have the 16x16 DVR-109 but the 16x16 DVR-R100 offers even more compatibility. Their drives seem much more "bulletproof" then any of the others I have used (Sony, NEC, etc, etc)
ErnestM
ErnestM
Ed.
Try www.bigpockets.co.uk i've got a Pioneer 110D (or similar) in a USB2 external drive. Seems to work ok but at 16x (I think its the media i'm using though not the drive)
Try www.bigpockets.co.uk i've got a Pioneer 110D (or similar) in a USB2 external drive. Seems to work ok but at 16x (I think its the media i'm using though not the drive)
stumped up for one of these last night
www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=97237
fingers x'd its not the PC. In fact quite sure it is the writer as have had a few 'power calibration' errors reported now
Ed
www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=97237
fingers x'd its not the PC. In fact quite sure it is the writer as have had a few 'power calibration' errors reported now
Ed
just an update.. nice new LG dual layer drive fitted (a whopping £30) and burning away at 8 x very happily as I type this (buffer boucing around - always above 90% so far)
So I t hink the old NEC burner's time was up, simple as that ! Was only about 18 months old but now so cheap cant really lose sleep over it.
Ed
So I t hink the old NEC burner's time was up, simple as that ! Was only about 18 months old but now so cheap cant really lose sleep over it.
Ed
Gassing Station | Computers, Gadgets & Stuff | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff