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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday October 30 2015, @10:35PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Friday October 30 2015, @10:35PM (#256693) Journal

    Back in ye olde days, my father's 386 couldn't read 3.5" disks from other computers and his 3.5's couldn't be read on other PC's. His friend, an old unix hacker, finally figured out what the problem was: the floppy drive had a slight misalignment of the heads. He had to buy a new drive, install it and painstakingly xcopy a:\* b:\ for over a hundred disks. Oh, right. He had 10yo me do it. Fun times.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @04:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @04:05AM (#256789)

    Mmm. When I used to burn dvds, I tried to check readability in a different drive, than the original. Showed me that crap-cheap dvd drives handle DVD+R better than DVD-R (could read only the first 800 meg . . . weird); more often that it caught burn errors.

    I have a bit of a mess on my hands now. About 100 dvds from 2006 - 2009.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @03:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @03:05PM (#256899)

      Did you ever run into the problem where Windows permanently handicaps the CD/DVD drive if it encounters a read error x number of times with a disk? It makes DVD video playback very slow and/or choppy. The only way to fix it is by shutting down the PC, disconnecting the drive, reboot, shutdown again, re-connect the drive, reboot again... Or hack the registry. That used to royally piss me off.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @11:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @11:53PM (#257036)

        No. I switched to linux (redhat 9 / fedora 2 / knoppix 3.3 ) on my primary systems in 2004 - 2005, before I started burning dvds.