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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.

"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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