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I hate CDs, DVDs, and all types of disks!

by MrKassner Feb 11, 2010 12:31PM PST

NOTE: I made this more for everyones entertainment then an actual angry rant. So just laugh at how true most of this is. Silly
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They're such a pain in the butt for me. When I burn something I have to figure out what type of disk to use only to find all my disks, even the new ones that haven't been used yet, are scratched. I burn the disk and hope it doesn't give me any errors because my drive doesn't like some brands of disks. If it finishes I use the disk for whatever I need it for then sit it down next to my computer as a mental note "Find out where that Sharpie went this time then write what is on this disk." but I never find that Sharpie and the disks just build up there till I have no clue what all of them are and have to put them in the computer to find out, but eventually on one of the disks is something with an autorunner that I don't know about and I eject the disk and put the next one in and Windows keeps giving me errors telling me to put the disk back in the drive before it commits suicide from being separated from it's apparent love that it can't be without; the Linux Ubuntu install CD. So I click Cancel to that about fifty times then give up and just move the little pop-up to the side of the screen where it can't annoy me but every time I put the next disk in it pops up again. Finally after going through all of the disks I find out half of them are all the same thing and put the rewritable ones back in and erase them then throw away the rest. Finally I have all my disks organized but then the next day I realize I needed one of the ones I threw away so I gotta dig through the trash bag next to my desk to find it because I don't want to waste more disks but never find it so I gotta burn it again but then when I use the disk it's too scratched to read it!
Then when it comes to games... Some I've had for a long time so inevitably they get scratched. So I'll put the disk in the drive to install the game and the drive sounds like a DJ playing with a jet engine, speeding up, slowing down, seeking back and forth to the point I can't stand it and turn on music. Finally it finishes but the disk won't spin down or eject from the drive so I wait for what I think is the disk spun down completely and do the paperclip thing only to hear as I push the paperclip in the disk fall down in the tray still spinning and make a horrid noise of thousands of scratches being added to the disk and I just want to smack the computer. I think honestly I could go on and write a book on all this if I wanted... But I'll stop here. Feel free to add anything you can think of because I know I skipped a lot of disk annoyances.

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Oh and also...
by MrKassner Feb 11, 2010 12:34PM PST

does anyone know if their is such a thing as a 16X DVD+RW? I need to buy some fast and rewritable disks to save me from some of these problems. xD

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Stuff and all that
by Willy Feb 11, 2010 10:53PM PST

I understand your frustration, but I also know what the alternatives are. Not too long ago, to store data on floppies, tape or another HD(you got $) was the only way to go. These aren't as simple as a CD/DVD plus storage of them is far simpler. Think of this in that way and be happy you have access to CD/DVD media. Next.... -----Willy Happy

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Back in the day
by TONI H Feb 12, 2010 5:42PM PST

when everyone was going to a specific p2p file sharing site to download music up the gazoo, I had accumulated thousands of songs that I was burning to cdr and cdr-w disks. Back then, nearly everything you bought (long before dvd's came into their own and gave you much more space) had a blue side....unfortunately the cd players (both home style set tops and pc types) transformed over time to where they could not read those blue disks and car cd players could only read cdr-w types, so I was forced to actually copy every single one of those blue types to 'gold' surfaced types.

Now many/most of the newer devices can't read anything that has been burned so unless you are mechanically inclined and can keep 'fixing' or 'cleaning' your older players, you have to purchase retail disks to replace your older, even retail, disks or use your pc to listen to those audio or movie disks.

I have a double sided dvd burner, have double sided disks for it, and still can't get my burner recognized for anything other than a standard one-sided 4GB disk and/or player/burner. I have given up trying, even tho my version of EZ Creator supposedly supports double sided disks and players/burners so my data files stay on 4GB by default, which wastes the second side of the disks I have. Fortunately, I didn't buy many of them, but it still ticks me off. I refuse to buy a newer version of software just to be ticked off again.

My mother's philosophy was always 'make do with what you have'...if you can't find a screwdriver, use a butter knife...if you can't find a hammer, use your shoe. I've transferred that philosophy to my disks and players. I'm getting too old to play the 'troubleshooting' game. Computers are made to have fun with and troubleshooting took the fun out of it for me over the years. lol

TONI H

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