The operating system can deal with the eject button, but it may not be told that you pressed it until the I/O-in-progress completes. So you may end up waiting just the same.
-----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lou Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ending crashed program- XP PRO SP2 Thanks Carl, That will remove the frustration waiting. Would I create more problems pressing the eject button on the DVD drive? Warm Regards, Lou ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 11:24 PM 9/18/2005 -0400, you wrote: >The file being copied from DVD is probably damaged, resulting in read >errors. Explorer issues a read request to the DVD drive, and then waits for >the drive to return data. The drive tries over and over again to read the >data from the disc without an error. After so many tries, it finally gives >up and completes the read request (with error status). Explorer won't >terminate until the read request is completed. > >So the several attempts aren't needed. You can confirm this: > >1. Start the file copy. >2. When it hangs try ONE TIME in Task Manager to terminate the offending >program. >3. Watch the access light on the DVD, which should still be on. >4. When the access light on the DVD goes out, the offending program will be >terminated. > >Carl -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
