I think you have a weird hardware problem in the drive. Test this with the USB stick and let us know what happens.
--STeve Andre' Jeffrey Race <[email protected]> On Wednesday 05 August 2009 12:58:52 Jeffrey Race wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
