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Bill Kapelas <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 25 May 2000 14:26:00 -0400
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Its not a software issue. Many older CD drives will not read CD-RW. RW write in
such a way as to make them hard to read. Like fine print. CD-R on the other hand
is like bold print.




On Thu, 25 May 2000 20:34:12 +0200, David Jonathan Justman wrote:

>I have an HP disk writer on my new machine, and I use DirectCD to
>write erasable data CDs.  I would like to install some software on my
>old Win95 which would allow it to read these CDs from a regular read-
>only CD drive.  I tried installed DirectCD on my old machine, and it
>installs fine, but it only ends up reporting that it finds no
>compatible hardware, and refuses to read the CD.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thank you.
>David Jonathan Justman
>
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