I've seen quirky DVD behavior with various commercial products, but it usually consists of nothing more than hemming and hawing on one drive, not on another. Your problem is unique in degree, but not in kind.
Ted -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark Gilland via Jfw Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 2:25 PM To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Subject: Re: Very odd issue with JAWS 15 DVD media Michael, Thanks for your fast response. That's definitely good to hear that I'm not going absolutely crazy over here. That however said, I really really wonder what on earth causes this issue. I could see it if the drive was either busted, or on the way to being busted, but for it to only do this with one particular disc, yet none others? That is so weird! Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Mote via Jfw" <[email protected]> To: "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 12:27 PM Subject: RE: Very odd issue with JAWS 15 DVD media > Christopher, I've seen this issue happen before. In fact, I have had > little > success installing JAWS from one of their CD's. I almost always do it > from > the download that I pull down from their FTP site. I have a Del latitude > and an HP machine. The CD/DVD drive on my HP won't read a lot of my music > CD"S. My Del reader will though. This is odd, no doubt, but I can say > with > all certainty that you are not alone on this one. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Christopher-Mark Gilland via Jfw > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:50 AM > To: JAWS list > Subject: Very odd issue with JAWS 15 DVD media > > I'm not sure if my DVD is to blaim for this, or if it's my drive. This is > the oddest thing I've ever seen, though with a DVD optical drive. > > So, here's the thing... I just upgraded to JFW 15 at the beginning of > this > month. FS shipped me out a JAWS 15 DVD upon my request. I was trying to > install the US english, and spanish Vocalizer voices. Yes, I'm perfectly > aware that they are up on the FS web site under the downloads area. I > totally get that 100%. I just figured, why go through the trouble > downloading them, if they're already on my DVD. So, I popped the DVD in > my > system. Well, the dad blame thing won't read! Try as I may, it just > will, > not, read. I took the disc out, had a sighted person inspect it for > finger > prints or scratches. Absolutely nothing! Nodda! The sighted person even > told me there was no dirt, no dust, nothing. The DVD was clean as a > whistle! It couldn't have been in better condition if you wanted it to > be. > So, I took it over to my computer in my recording studio, and popped it in > the drive there. I just wanted to see for definite! if it was indeed the > media. In that drive, it spun up, and it read flawlessly. So, I took out > the disc, and using a barely damp, notice, I said barely damp! I did > *not!* > say barely wet... I'm not stupid! Just using a barely damp cloth, I very > very gently cleaned the disc working in a clockwise circular motion > working > from the inner ring outward, as to insure I didn't streek the disc. Once > I > made sure the disc media was thoroughly cleaned, I put it back in the > drive > I used initially. Again, it won't read. I thought perhaps, being that > tower has two CD drives, maybe I put it in the wrong one, and that the > one > I put it in was just the CD writer, and wouldn't read DVD's. When I > swapped > it to the other drive, it didn't read there either. So, it's very obvious > that it's not an issue of putting it in a non DVD readable drive. So > then, > I took the disc out, and even though it wouldn't work on this OS, duh, I > totally get that, just for sh**s and giggles, I put the disc in my > polly-carbon mid 2010 13 inch macbook. Boom, it mounted to my desktop, > and > came up in my Finder with absolutely no issue at all. I then tried it in > my > Macbook Pro late 2012 13 inch system. Again, it came up beautifully! > Finally, for one more test, I put it in my new Windows 8.1 Asus laptop. > Again, it came up flawlessly. I started thinking, well, maybe the CD > drive > on that first initial system is just going bad, God forbid. I mean, it is > an old Dell Demension system running XP that was bought in 2005, maybe the > tail end of 2004, but I'm almost positibe it was 2005. Anyway, so > anything's possible, especially at that old of age. So, I tried a > completely different DVD. I basically popped a store bought Windows 7 DVD > in the drive. This wasn't a burned copy. It's the original boxed retail > disc. That read perfectly in the system. No issue at all. Just to be > sure > the drive was in good health, I went through the enbtire installer up > until > the final press of the enter key that would have started installing > Windows. > > Obviously, I didn't wanna do that, so I aborted the process, but I > guarantee, had I hit the enter key, it would a started with no problem at > all. So then, I took the disc out, plugged an external USB CD/DVD drive > into the tower and popped in the JAWS 15 DVD. Again... that read > gorgeously! So, what the hell gives! Pardon my language. I'm totally > flabbergasted! I'm striking totally out here. I have no freaking idea! > Has anyone seen this, where some DVD's just simply put, will, not, read? > on > some drives regardless, try as you may, what you do? > > This is the weirdest thing! > > Chris. > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
