Need help burning data cd's

Factual Questions
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I recently purchased a new computer with a CD/DVD burner and I am unable to burn a data cd correctly. Well they actually seem to burn fine but then when I go to load the program onto my second computer, there is always some glitch and it won’t work.

I am burning the cds on Roxio Easy Creator so how can I be doing anything wrong? I feel as though I am missing something really obvious, that would be typical for me :smiley: Do I need any addtional software on my old computer, ( which runs Windows 98 ) to run the programs I have burned from Roxio?

Yah, Yah, I am just learning about cd burning now, please be gentle with me.

All help greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

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How old is your older computer? How old is the CD drive on it?

Try burning your data CD at a slower speed. As slow as you can stand. See if that helps.

I’d give you instructions on how to change the speed of the burn but I don’t have Roxio :frowning:

3

What do you mean “load the program”???

Are these, for example, install disks for software? To prevent theft by copying, many companies protect the CDs in certain ways. The install program checks the CD to see if it is a copy, etc.

More information about what your are trying to burn and the errors would be nice.

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The older computer is about 4 years old but has some upgrades. I tried burning the cd at 4x .

What I mean by loading is trying to install them on my older computer.

Here is an example of what I am doing that is not working :

  • I downloaded Diskeeper from P2P program

  • I run it and install it on my new computer

  • I then burn it from my new computer onto a cd-r

  • I take the program and try to install it on my older computer
    and I receive errors like “cannot load dllib.dll is missing” This has happened with several programs. I know these certain files are present during the burning process because I double- check.

So why can I download and install these programs onto my new computer but burning them is not working?

Thanks again.

5

Are you burning the original file that you downloaded, or the extraxtred installed file? You need the full installation program. The program as it sits on disk after installation is not set up for re-installation. So if you just copied the .exe over, it won’t work. You need the installation program and any files that came with it.

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I have been burning the extracted file. I did just try to burn a software program right from the P2P instead and it wouldn’t even complete burning.

I will try a different program and see what happens. If there is something in the program itself to prevent copies from being made, then why can I download and install it with ease onto my computer?

Thanks again for all the help.

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Burn the pre-installed files, not the post-installed files (does that make sense?). Then try running the install again. Sorry, but I don’t know much about Roxio. I use Nero and I haven’t had any problems with it.

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I don’t know about Roxio either but I’ll just reiterate what cletus says - copy all of the files that you downloaded onto the CD, that way you can’t be missing anything.

As far as protection issues go, there shouldn’t be a problem. The helpdesk where I work all carry copied versions of products (allowed by license because of the type of organisation I work in BTW). These are burned on absolutely standard machines with no problems.

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Are you using multisession & also did your close your disks?