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Help! Digiatally challanged.

Sep 24, 2004 10:42AM PDT

I have a Minolta Dimage G400 Digital camera. I run Mill. Me on a HP AMD Athlon 900MHZ. I've done some upgrades with memory and a new video card. Heres the problem I'm put the pictures from my camera to the computer. The camera comes with software called dimage viewer.Now I want to put them on a RW/CD. I've tried many times but I get the mess. that the cd may be write protected or needs formatting. I have a RW/cd and a DVD.I tried both and get the same message. I tried a floppy and it works fine. I've copied a lot of CDs and its fine. I've backed up my Quickbooks with a RW/CD and it works fine(although sometimes won't release it till I shut down. I've tried on Quicken and it won't back up with the CD,just the floppy. Am I doing something wrong,or could it be the CDs broke or just different software it just dosen't seem to reconize that its there. Thank in advance to any takers.

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Re: Help! Digiatally challanged.
Sep 24, 2004 12:30PM PDT

"although sometimes won't release it till I shut down."

Roxio had a bug that the CDRW would not eject. Updates on their website cured most, if not all. I only read such if the update was not done.

Bob

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Re: Help! Digiatally challanged.
Sep 27, 2004 10:03AM PDT

I had the same trouble you have. This is what I did and it seems to work. Temporarily turn off your virus detection program, temporarily disable your screen saver and any power control programs that turn off your monitor or put the computer into standby or hibernate mode, and shut down any programs you don't need.
The purpose for doing all of this is to prevent any processes from interupting your CPU, hard drive, and CD drive during the CD writing process. A condition called buffer under run can occur which turns CD R and RW disks into cup coasters. This should also prevent your machine from locking up during the write process. Good luck!