----- Original Message ----- From: "civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 6:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Please can you Help
<snipped> > Did you do a google search for md5sum and get the windows equivalent to > check the disk against the md5sum provided on the web? If your iso > files check with the md5sum, then we can eliminate the possibility of a > transmission error and move on to either media or CD drive. My personal > luck has not been good with downloads and CDs. GEnerally I download an > iso and burn at three different speeds and try all three and generally I > have ONE of those three that will read reliably on another drive. > Sometimes CDs I burn on a CDRW won't read cleanly on the CDRW drive > itself. I have four burners and about a dozen test drives PD, CD, and > DVD, and I get maybe 10% of my burns to read on all of them, and at > least 40% of my burns will not read cleanly (data error somewhere) on at > least half of my drives. <snipped> wow, that sounds like terrible stats. mind sharing the brand/models of your drives and media, so that the rest of us can stay far far away from them. :)
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