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Answer» Hey everyone, definitely legal, licensed, pressed (not burnt) disks Bought it from Academic Superstore. It is a legal disk. Everytime i reinstall XP there will be different files that wont copy.Either the CD is dirty/scratched or the CD drive is dirty. Try a different CD drive. If that doesn't work you will probably need a new CD. The local used record store in my town has a machine that polishes CDs. It looks like a shoe buffer. They charge fifty cents to buff and polish scratched CDs. I've taken a few down that were so scratched that they wouldn't even play and they were able to buff all of the scratches out and they looked and played like new after that. If you have a used record store close by, take the disk to them and see if they can polish it for you. They should be able to, as long as their aren't any big scratches on the top of the disk. It might save you a lot of money. Good Luck!Quote from: JJ 3000 on August 16, 2009, 12:19:31 AM The local used record store in my town has a machine that polishes CDs. Worth a try, sure, but CD polishing is much more likely to make an audio CD usable once more, where the result of partially reading a block of data is quite possibly just a faint click, than a data CD-ROM where every byte matters. A faint click?Quote from: JJ 3000 on August 16, 2009, 01:38:40 AM A faint click? Or a tick or a pop or something inaudible. (Is there a problem?) I don't understand what you are trying to say. Quote partially reading a block of data is quite possibly just a faint clickCan you explain what that means? Are you referring to the disk or the read/write head or the arm or what? I don't get it. If you do mean the disk, then what click or pop? Are you talking about the pits and lands on the surface of the disk or do you mean an audible click?Quote from: JJ 3000 on August 16, 2009, 01:58:49 AM I don't understand what you are trying to say.Can you explain what that means? Are you referring to the disk or the read/write head or the arm or what? I don't get it. The process of reading data from optical disks whether audio CDs or data DVD or CD-ROMs and -RWs incorporates error recovery. The chipset in an CD-audio player tries to "rebuild" the data from a damaged block. If the damage is slight, or the dirt or GREASE on the disk is not too thick, the person LISTENING to the music may not hear anything unusual through the speakers, just the music they were expecting to hear. Of course it may not be possible to completely mask the effect of the errors, and then the listener may hear a slight indication, such as a 'tick' or 'pop' or even a skip. In general the player will just carry on playing. (Until the next error if there is one. Surely you have heard a 'bad' CD?) However, an optical drive in a computer will signal an unrecoverable error to the operating system and the entire file being read at the time is regarded by the OS as not READABLE. Okay. I (kind of) get it now. I still think that he will have luck installing XP if he polishes the CD. As long as there are no scratches on the top he should be okay. Also a new optical drive will do a much better job reading a scratched or damaged disk. By the way Salmon, is English your first language?Quote from: JJ 3000 on August 16, 2009, 03:14:21 AM By the way Salmon, is English your first language? 1. Why do you ask? 2. What do you think? (If anybody is wondering what country I am a native of, a quick Google for my screen name plus another of the names in my sig, and the number in my sig e.g. "Salmon Trout Lemberg 4472", will surely tell.) Quote a new optical drive will do a much better job reading a scratched or damaged disk. Why? Justin... I would borrow an XP CD and do a full install... Just use your INFO for registration. Perfectly legal. The XP CD has to match your version.Ok, Thanks for the help. Ill try to borrow a friends CD tomorrow. |
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