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In article <3202FC6D.2912@world.net>, jojo@world.net says...
> my friend made a copy of a CD on his CD-ROM burner but whenever i try to 
> read it from my drive, it doesn't work. in DOS i get that "abort, retry, 
> fail?" msg and in windows, it says there's no CD in the drive. with all 
> other CD-ROMs it works without any problem.  i'm not sure if this has 
> more to do with the original CD my friend copied it from. with that 
> original i was also having problems getting my drive to recognise it. he 
> says he hasn't heard any complaints/ hardware troubles from anyone 
> before. 
> 
> where would the error be? something to do with my CD drive? (i only got 
> it - a 4X creative MPC2 drive - in 2nd half of 95, so i don't think it's 
> that obsolete) i've updated my windows drivers with a july release from 
> creative labs but it hasn't changed things any....
> 

The drive is way too new to be having the "I don't read CD-R's" problem.

Could be media incompatability.  What kind of media was it put on?  What color 
is it on the bottom? Green? Gold? Something else?

If your friend can loan you another CD-R with the same media and one on 
a different brand media (preferrably different color) you might learn 
something.  Often, some CD-ROM drives don't read the greenish media all that 
well.

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