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In article <825457405snz@longley.demon.co.uk>, David Longley
<David@longley.demon.co.uk> writes
>Just for the record, I've struggled with a similar problem except on mine,
>it reads the first half of the disk fine, the second half produces read
>errors. Like you I feel peeved that it's only worked for a year, and during
>that period it's had only light use (good marketing trick CD-ROMs !).
>
>Mind you - I haven't given up....I am after the motors...so anyone who has
>junked their 562 or 563 please contact me for an address to send your motors
>to, I'm not sure if there are one or two, but they *are* very small.


 Mine has started to refuse to read demo CDs. It does read the ones I've
had for some time, though, which makes me wonder whther it has been
overtaken by technology rather than wear-and-tear. 
  The demo disk for the Win96 show, for instance, refuses to install but
I can fiddle in some of the shareware by picking up the directories in
File Manager. Others say a library file is missing.  
  A disk from PC Mag is totally untouchable. Can't even make a DIR work.
The other one, though, works OK.
  It could be, of course, that it can't get to the first few tracks - so
it can't see the file records or do the install or progs. That might be
because something is clapping out or the new have different dimensions.
 
Either way, I just wasted almost 10 quid on a drive cleaner disk. Bloody
rip-off merchants!! All that dosh for a blank CD with a few hairs glued
to it.
-- 
David Lawson - London