Double click on the Direct CD icon in the system tray and select CD
Utilities and then Scandisk. It may be able to fix it. If so then copy to
your hard drive and back up on a CD-R. The suggestions to staf away from
Direct CD and other packet writing software seems to be a good one and many
experienced users never use those programs. The cost of CD's is small enough
that using erasables doesn't save you much and often results in lost data
and big headaches.
Godd Luck,
Joe
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From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of A&C Thompson
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 6:45 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] CD-RW Problem
This may be useless advice as I've never used CD-RW (only CD-R), but try
washing your CD with warm water and dish
soap. Fingerprints can cause havoc on any CD. hth
Al Thompson
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From: "Temple Davis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 5:48 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] CD-RW Problem
I had saved a lot of pictures on a CD-RW. The CD had worked fine every time
I viewed it until this week. I put
the CD in and it shows the folder but AutoPlay comes on and searches for
files and only shows one small file (just
a few kb's in size) and I got the following messages:
One message says:
Direct CD 5.2.0.91
The requested files could not be read from the CD in Drive E. It is
recommended to copy any critical files on this
CD to a new CD
The second message was:
E:\ is not accessible. The volume for a file has been externally deleted so
that the opened file is no longer
valid.
In My Computer under Details (for this drive) it says:
Beckett [E]
CD Drive
File System CDUDFRW
Free Space 561 MB
Total Size 571 MB
(this would lead me to believe the picture files are still on the cd
since it is saying there
are 10 MB used).
Any suggestions? I have tried the CD on another computer and got the same
messages. By the way, the CD couldn't
not have become damaged because it was stored in a case in my CD file as
always, and I had just viewed it the day
before and it was fine.
Temple Davis
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