- Welcome to the unofficial dark side of the Bar -

GD's Night Club

- Refreshment for Naughty Goodsouls -

We serve filthy booze in the midnight hour It's a bit Gorgeous  

Come inside, be wild and free, drink yourself silly!

-Feel the spirit of the lost one inside your head?-

Through the locked door behold the secret cavern that holds the stored booze - anyone seen the damn key?

- The Booze Bar Wine & Beer list -

The Beer selection:- (hic)We are always fully stocked with the finest boozePoochies BoddingtonsHoltsMarston Pedigree - Better Brewed in WoodBank's dark mildStormC Guinness Visit Realbeer.comThe Wine selection:-Lilac wine (from the Cafe lilac tree)Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte 2000DP VIN '96 Mighty Micro specialityMumm Napa Blanc de Noirs Vintage 1996 Sterling Vinyards Three Palms Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (purple velvet!!) Ridge Vineyard's Cabernet, from their ramshackle winery high in the hills above Palo Alto.Niebaum-Coppola's Diamond Zinfandel, goes well with the bread and cheese

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The Bunny food menu- we love Bun buns    | | GD's Club Photo Gallery   Ye Ol'Fish and Chips - cod, haddock and plaice available Mushy peas for those so inclined Ditto baked beans Followed by: Ye Ol'Apple pie and cream For those anti-fish either baked beans or mushy peas on toast can be whipped up for you ;>) Lastly NO requests for chip butties, let's try and be a bit healthy! (Service not included - so serve yourself!!)

I was not refering to GD's room but was infact talking about the weather.

Could I please ask those who understand computers a really simple question? I've got to back up my data before upgrading from W98SE to XP, so finally worked out how to operate Adaptec Easy CD Creator. I think everything is fine, but when I try to check the CD has copied what I want, I can't bring the information up on screen. I've tried inserting the new CD but it makes a whirring sound - quite usual - after a few seconds, but nothing coes up on screen.

The details in 'My Computer' and 'Windows Explorer' seem to indicate the right stuff is on there and it says there is data on the CD, but it just makes a whirring sound after a few seconds and stops after a few minutes.

Any ideas, guys?

Hi Vasey,

In windows explorer, if you click on the CD device, then it should show you the contents of the CD. I assume you just copied files to it, so it's treated just like an ordinary disk (as per C:), so you should see the contents.

Hi all

I'm new so be gentle with me

Hi Vasey

Which version of Easy CD Creator are you using? To find this out Start Easy CD Creator and click help on the top menu.. then about and it should give you a version number.

Also, have you tried restarting windows and then trying to access the new CD? (Hold down shift while restarting to avoid a complete reboot)as sometimes Explorer in Windows can crash.

vasey
Have you solved your problem?

Socrates,

Which problem is Vasey trying to solve this time? (;-o

Cheers

Ash

PS Vasey is a Virgo, whoops (You know what they say about Virgo's, off scampering back the the narrow paths in the mountains)!

Hello all.

How nice to see all these new faces in the cafe, welcome all.

:-)

biffer and andycarr: thank you so much for your advice. I am using Adaptec Easy CD Creator v3.5c and I can access the list by going to 'My Computer' and clicking on the V drive which is where I filed it. That brings up the CD layout page and clicking on the 'My Docs' in the bottom Left hand quadrant of the page, does bring up the full list of all the things that I copied across.

But.... just to check they were all there and it wasn't just a Table of Contents, I tried double clicking on some individual documents and ... nothing!

I rebooted the machine this morning and I'm still at the same point. Have I missed a step in the process?

Hi vasey, if they're word documents you could try opening them directly from within word.

They will be stored with read-only permission, but that should be ok.

The other thing you could try is in explorer dragging one of them into a directory on your C: drive.

Also in explorer, if you click on views->details on the toolbar it should show you the size and type of each file.

biffer: seems the file size is 1,135kb which suggests something meaningful is on there...doesn't it?!

vasey, looks ok, but if I were you I'd copy it to a directory on your C: drive and then open it with word (if it is a document). You could also check the size of the original file in the directory that you copied it from and see if they're the same.

Any chance of a steamed sponge pudding?

Maybe Gausie,

The chef in here is pretty dynamic. Why don't you pursue him into the kitchen to ask?

biffer: well, I know have a copy in the c drive and I've been looking at the accumulated properties, which suggest that there should be about 32MB recorded. That makes sense since the used space on the CD says 39.3mb has been used, ie it's full. But still struggling to open all the files and folders that I can see on the CD layout page. Surely just double clicking on any of the files should open that document?

vasey, yes it should I'd have thought. Have you tried dragging one of the files from the CD to another directory and then opening that? Or tried to open one of the files directly from Word?

Biffer, I've just opened word (via Start/Programs/MSWord) and tried to open the file from the new folder I created in the C drive. Nothing!

Err looks like the disk is not any good (to state the obvious).

I've got version 4 of adaptec easy creator and just tried it out.

Fired it up, selected create data CD, dragged a word file into the CD layout, then burned the CD and then came out of adaptec.

Then in explorer I clicked on the CD and the document was there (with it's Word icon). I then double clicked on Word and it openened the document.

I don't know what to suggest other than to try it again I'm afraid.

Good luck.

Biffer, thank you. I am having a minor breakdown but at least it proves it doesn't seem to be anything I've done. I'll go and buy another CD and try again. I really appreciate your checking the process on your machine.