Re: [SLUG] Burning CDs

From: Greg Reinbach (greg@reinbach.com)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2001 - 01:37:07 EDT


none taken, sadly I have the CompUSA specials with their logo and writing on
the one side, so am sure I am putting them in the correct way round. thanks
anyway

> Greg Reinbach wrote:
>
>> CD everything seems to go fine, light comes on, CD gets popped out at
>> the end with no error messages, but when I try to read the CD it is
>> still blank!!! Now what I am trying to work out is if this is due to
>> bad blank CDs tried to burn it windows (dual booting machine), same
>> thing happens. Am able to read normal CDs.
>> Any help would be appreciated in how to go about finding the fault.
>
> This may sound silly, and I don't intend any offense, but is it at all
> possible that you're not putting the disks in the drive correctly? If
> the CD-R's you're using aren't labelled, and are the silver type, it
> can be difficult to tell which way the disk goes into the drive. With
> the disks I've got, the easiest way to tell is to look at the numbers
> printed around the hub of the disk; the side the numbers look normal
> from is the side that goes UP.
>
> Hope it helps.



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