RE: OT - Bootable CD-ROM

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

Interesting answer, some of the laptop's we use when out on site will not
read the CDRW's, they are not brand new but are not that old either.

I think that could explain it though...I will look into it, this sounds
interesting.

On the side of the bootable CD, thanks people for your help, I have now
sorted it and sorted it using RW cd's as well!

It was a case of not totally understanding the script's I had on my boot
disk and not understanding how to make a bootable CD using Nero.

The PC's I am using are brand new HP Vectra C700 items and they do read the
CDRW's as stated, more answers and more questions, oh the road of an IT
Muppet is a long and interesting one...

Thanks again,

B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 August 2001 10:52
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT - Bootable CD-ROM


>getting full of dead CD's, what would also be good is if I could use
>CD-RW's
>but not all PC can read them, unless I can put the required drivers
onto
>the
>CD as well?
>
>

Surely that's nothing to do with drivers? - I thought it was merely the age
of the CDROM drive in the reading machine that determines whether or not it
can read CDRW's?? - Aren't CDRW's much lower reflectivity that CDR's? - the
laser read mechanism needs to be calibrated to account for that, which they
are in newer drives, but are not in older ones..

I have a stash of old IDE CDROM drives in my spares bin, some of which will
read CDRW's, some wont, I occasionally dig one out to use when building a
new PC on the bench. Whether that PC will read a CDRW or not depends purely
on which drive I pull out of the box... I never have to install drivers to
change that, - just pull another drive out of the box..

Paul G.


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