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Greg B · 12-17-2004, 08:12 PM

I thought it was just me, but for the past few months it's impossible to burn a CD. Sometimes the drive won't even read a CD-R.

So I slapped an external CD and it reads fine. But it still won't recognize a blank CD-R.

So I found out that I wasn't the only one. Seems there's an army of people with weird software glitches and the primary culprit is Service Pak 2?

At first I thought it was SONY. Then they announced shit wouldn't work with SP2.

Then today I was listening to a major news show and they went on and on bitching about CD-RW problems! People used umpteen types of software but it was the same problem. Different companies. Didn't hear if it was a problem with MACs too.

Then one expert theorized that it was some new type of copyright protection thingie that us consumers weren't warned about. My law reps were PISSED because they couldn't burn simple files and had spent 3 days looking for software. Same as real estate folks too.

What's up with this?

12-17-2004, 08:12 PM
Greg B So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: EARTH (for the time being) Posts: 7,014	WTF? Global CD-RW Problems? Is Service Pak 2 To Blame? I thought it was just me, but for the past few months it's impossible to burn a CD. Sometimes the drive won't even read a CD-R. So I slapped an external CD and it reads fine. But it still won't recognize a blank CD-R. So I found out that I wasn't the only one. Seems there's an army of people with weird software glitches and the primary culprit is Service Pak 2? At first I thought it was SONY. Then they announced shit wouldn't work with SP2. Then today I was listening to a major news show and they went on and on bitching about CD-RW problems! People used umpteen types of software but it was the same problem. Different companies. Didn't hear if it was a problem with MACs too. Then one expert theorized that it was some new type of copyright protection thingie that us consumers weren't warned about. My law reps were PISSED because they couldn't burn simple files and had spent 3 days looking for software. Same as real estate folks too. What's up with this?