It sounds as if either 1) your laser is going bad or is 2) dirty. Its not burning as firmly as it should and the plasticity of the disk is altering just enough that it becomes unreadable. You can get a CD cleaner disk at many music stores and some computer stores as well as office supplies.
Keith thompson Matt wrote: > > All, > > I have a HP CDWriter Plus, series 8200. I use TDK media MOST of the > time, but at times I have used "Office Depot's" house brand. > > The problem is this, my disks go bad. I am not talking about burning > coasters. The disks are fine for a while, then over a period of several > days or a couple weeks I loose access to the data. Most of my uses are > for archival purposes, so it is not like these disks are getting a lot > of use. > > I keep them all in CD Envelopes (the kind c the cellophane window) then > filed in my old 5.25 floppy boxes, lid down. Either that or jewel boxes. > Granted this is not hermetically sealed, but dust is minimal. > > What happens is I would insert a burned disk and after a while, get > error messages. "The disk has experienced an unrecoverable error. It is > recommended you move all critical data off immediately." After a couple > of occurrences of this, and I attempt to insert the CD again, the system > will hang as the disk attempts to access non-existent (or at least non > addressed) data. Even if I remove the offending disk, the system will > stay in an almost hung status. The cursor will respond jerkely (word?) > and only after several seconds (5-30) has elapsed since I moved the > mouse. > > If I insert that same disk into my laptop I get similar results. As far > as I can tell, disks that were burned on my laptop can be read on both > machines indefinitely. > > Matt -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
