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In article <4Unyb.78923$Vs1.2297@twister.austin.rr.com>, 
"WSZsr" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Nothing special required.  Does the Britannica program require installation?
>With it in the DVD drive, open my computer and double click on the DVD/CDRW
>drive and see if the install program starts up.

Yes, it requires installation so I will tell him to give that method a 
go -- though I think he has already tried to look at the disk with 
WinExplorer and couldn't see anything on it.  Which made me wonder if 
those combi drives can be dead for one function (e.g. the DVD in this 
case) yet still work okay for the other (CDs work okay in it).

If this wasn't such luddite territory on the frontier of civilisation 
I'd suggest he try another DVD disk in it, but having one is already 
more than one would expect here.  8-)

>"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:bqd0dt$20e2pu$1@ID-151056.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> In article <GP6dnUbKnfMhvVuiRVn-iQ@comcast.com>,
>> "Timothy Drouillard" <timdrouillard@comcast.net> wrote:
>> >If you haven't already tried this......
>> >
>> >As far as the Epson goes, you should be able to go through the 'Add a
>> >Printer' wizard, tell it that you're installing a local printer, tell
>> >it NOT to detect it automatically.
>> >
>> >It should then ask you which port it's attached to (LPT1: normally)
>> >It should then pop up a list of printers to choose from.
>> >Select Epson on the left side
>> >Select Epson LQ-800 on the right side.(yes it's listed there)
>>
>> Thanks for the advice Tim.  The ancient printer is now installed!
>> (Must say I'm pretty impressed that XP has support for such old
>> peripherals!)
>>
>> Returning to the "CD" problem, I'm afraid I jumped to a delusion when
>> he was talking saying his new Dell "can't even see his Encyclopedia
>> Britannica CDRs ..."  Well, two delusions really.  8-)
>>
>> 1. I meant CDs, the pressed, manufactured things, *not* CDRs.  I only
>> picked up on this distinction when someone in this thread started
>> talking about DirectCD and similar [thank you "someone" :-)] and
>>
>> 2. I was totally wrong anyway -- the bloody things are DVDs!  (The
>> other program, which installed okay, was on CDs as I said before.)
>>
>> Which leads me to ask -- is there something special/different about
>> the way a DVD/CD_RW drive "sees" install DVDs compared with the
>> various forms of CDs?  I think his old Compaq had a plain vanilla DVD
>> drive, and that was no problem under Windows 98.  But now this combi
>> thing under Windows XP doesn't want to know about these DVDs.
>>
>> Is there some Control Panel or BIOS option that needs to be set to
>> enable the DVDs to work like CDs on these things?  Or could the DVD
>> function be dead and the CD_RW side of things still be working okay?



Cheers, Phred.

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