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Roxio burn failures Please help
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4. February 2005 @ 23:47 |
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hi
interesting........
Nothing here to see, move along folks.
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bardie
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4. February 2005 @ 23:56 |
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Ditto
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brobear
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4. February 2005 @ 23:56 |
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WARNING: Make sure that you perform a backup of your registry before making any changes.
They should have put that in the beginning in double sized red print. If you'd done that, you could have at least got back to where you were.
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Following advice I then deleted following key from my Reg.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
I read the same article and I didn't see that at all. It said to delete upper and lower filters, not the key itself. You now have to go back and reinstall your OS if you didn't back up the registry.
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5. February 2005 @ 00:15 |
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hi
would a repair windows, rather than the format and fresh install work? so as not to loose anything.
boot from cdrom with the xp disc and follow that the repair part...
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brobear
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5. February 2005 @ 00:44 |
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That's where opinions differ. It's not going to be a reformat or anything so drastic. It's just running the installation disc and reinstalling the OS. The entire OS is overwritten, and all drivers and components reinstalled. Granted, the repair sometimes works, but sometimes it doesn't get everything back, then you have to do the overwrite anyway. In a case like this, I'd say the reinstallation of the OS is the best bet. If one has the time to kill, try the repair; it could work. It would save some time and trouble if it did. If not, it wastes more time. As I said, I'd go with the overwrite, it's the sure thing the first time; but then, opinions vary.
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5. February 2005 @ 00:52 |
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hi
true the repair is only a quick fix, maybe to get files needed taken off etc for backup, but if it were me i would go format and clean fresh install most definately!
as i personnally couldnt live with those type errors as they are serious!
infact i do my system once a year and its due now for me...
as its getting quite cluttered with tons of apps loaded and unloaded, leaves allsorts of files, and slows the system down somewhat....
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brobear
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5. February 2005 @ 00:58 |
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Rotary
Appears we agree after all. I just like to go ahead and get all the problems out of the way at once. If I'm going to do that much work, I don't want to be going back in and repeating the process.
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bazilla
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5. February 2005 @ 02:41 |
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Wow, sorry that didn't work.
Well, like Rotary suggested, see if you get back to a restore point that will let you back in.
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michael36
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5. February 2005 @ 10:43 |
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Thanks Brobear for your observation as to what exactly it was that I did that caused my problems. It makes so much sense to me now.
Having spent years being anal about backing up it only seems fitting that I should get my just desserts for being cavalier with my registery yesterday. A clean install and rebuild isn't a bad idea. It's just going to be a lot of work.
Do any of you operate seperate hard drives / virtual stand alone machines to do your burning on? Seems to me if I just had a HD with an OS and the burning software on it and never connected it to the internet I could run a cleaner safer operation. Hard drives being so cheap now.
Also thanks for the comments vis-a-vis Memorex and manufacturers. Can you point me to a resource that explains how to recognize which company made particular brand offerings?
I'll be down at Spadina and College, Toronto's computer casbah shopping for a new burner and media on Tuesday. Wish me luck eh!
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bardie
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5. February 2005 @ 13:09 |
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Michael, just one comment, I have a seperate 80 gig hard drive that I rip all my movies to and use it for nothing else. I keep 6 or so favorite movies on it just in case I need another copy and delete the ones I don't need to keep.
I defrag it weekly.
It is an external USB 2 Hard drive so that I can take with me to other families computers.
Good luck.
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brobear
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5. February 2005 @ 15:01 |
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One good plan of action is to partition your main drive if it is a large one. You can have a drive configuration where you have all the programs on your Main drive, and that won't be continually fragmented by adding and deleting programs. You can record to the other partition just as you would another physical drive. I have 2 hard drives, one is 250 GB partitioned to 2 125GB partitions. Then I have a separate 80GB drive. I use one partition for the programming, C: and the other, D:, for recording video. The separate drive, E:, is used for video as well.
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