It doesn't run on the Acer machine running WXP, but it does on the Thinkpad running WXP.
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:35:53 -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: >On Wednesday 05 August 2009 12:09:26 Jeffrey Race wrote: >> I bought a CD which will not load in my 600X on W2K; if I load the >> executable the machine hangs. The same happens on an Acer running W2K. >> >> However when I place it in the drive of my T43 running WXP, it auto-runs >> perfectly. >> >> Questions please: >> >> What can I do to diagnose the problem of not running on the 600X? >> >> How can I get it to run on the 600X? (Perhaps implicit in above.) >> >> Can I copy the files to the T43's drive and put on a thumb drive or >> something, if I can't get the disk to run on the 600X? >> >> Tks for all help >> Jeffrey Race > >If you can run the programs off that CD on some machines you have a >good indicator that the CD itself is good, or at least marginal. This means >that you ought to be able to take the code from the CD and stuff it onto >something like a USB stick and run it from there, assuming that it doesn't >have some sort of copy protection scheme. > >I have a few CD drives that are "weird". One in particular that drove me >buggy for a while cannot read data from the middle area of a CD. At the >start and end yes but not the middle. Maddening and it cost me time to >figure out why. > >However, you do mention Win2K and WinXP, so that could be your problem? >Try putting the code on a USB stick and verify that it works on the XP >machine, and then try it on the Win2K. If that doesn't work let us know. >I'm not sure I've heard of a program crashing on Win2K before that was >made for XP. > >Maddening.... > >--STeve Andre' >_______________________________________________ >Thinkpad mailing list >[email protected] >http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
