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Writing 2 Cd from hard-drive
Name: smick180 Date: April 15, 2004 at 04:17:39 Pacific OS: windows XP CPU/Ram: Pentium 4, 2.8GHz/ 256 MB
Comment:
hey yeah,
yeah each time i try to burn a cd-r or cd-rw i get the following error ... "Writing to CD failed, HARDWARE ERROR: TRACK FOLLOWING ERROR (4:0×09:0×00)" ... tryed un-installing and re-installing Nero or Clone cd and setting the burn/write speed to a minimum didn't work ... don't know what the problem is ..Please help!!!
Name: Mike178 Date: April 15, 2004 at 05:01:43 Pacific
Reply:
My VERY un-expert opinion would be to first try to clean the drive. If that does nothing, then I would suspect a hardware problem with the drive itself.
Just my 2c
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Response Number 2
Name: smick180 Date: April 17, 2004 at 02:16:00 Pacific
Reply:
thx anywayz
well i'm quit sure that my hard-drive is working properly.... cause i was reading a cd 2 hard -drive converting it 2 a image file .... and then writing 2 cd from hard-drive, the image file, generated that "hardware error"
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