My last 50-pack of blank CD-Rs costs me $.08 each (not including tax). Before that I had gotten them free after rebate.
Older CD-R drives can have problems reading CD-RW's. And of course, floppy drives are optional in most new computers. Ergo, ipso, facto: I'd sooner burn a CD-R than anything else for a diagnostic program I might use again in the future. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 12:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HARDware: Laptop won't boot At 10:54 AM 10/31/2005, Carl Houseman typed: >Get this diagnostic. >http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp > >You can burn a CD from the CD image and boot from that. If your problem is >memory related the system should be able to boot and run the diagnostic. Burning only a 300k file to a CD is what I call a waste unless of course one doesn't have access to a floppy drive. Of course that was not counting the 2k file required to allow the CD to boot the system. ;-) I certainly would consider using a CD-RW disk. <lol> ----------+---------- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 <http://www.wavijo.com> -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
