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I have been downloading old kid's readio stories and trying to burn them onto mp3 CDs for my daughter. The problem is that when she plays the CDs on the mp3 CD player in her room the tracks are not in order. I have edited the meta-data and labeld every …

I am using acer aspire 4730z, windows 7 32 bit cd drive is not working all of the sudden its stop working how to solve it can you people help me

Hey guys, I'm having a problem with my netbook. How do you boot into a CD-ROM or USB? My netbook is a Samsung NP-N100S-E01PH. I could boot to a CD when I installed WIndows 7 but it could not detect Ubuntu CD Installer. Please help me any way possible.

Hi Dw There is a project I'm doing but I'm doing it in VB.NET I want to know now how can I write a program in jave that will govern the CD-RW and if the disc is inserted on let say a DVD player the program will detect that the …

Hello guys!!! I want to design my audio dvd colection, so I need your advices about label making software! I hope you will help me. Thanks!!!

for the past few days i have been unable to make my optical drive read discs or do anything other than cause the computer to freeze. i have tried the drive with multiple different sata cables and in another computer, the drive works fine on the other computer but is …

Can someone tell me how to get the linux live cd on my usb, i already have virtual box installed..........Thanks

Does the repair/recovery disc for Windows xp need any sort of installing before I can format my hard drive with it? My computer has a virus that doesn't allow installing of programs. I want to know before I order it from eBay.. I don't know much about this sorta thing

My PC has 3 drives C, D, E...when I insert the removable CD drive it should detect that the drive is the F:... it may vary for different systems...how can I find which will can be the CD drive... I had written the following code Try For Each drive In …

Hello, I've been having a lot of trouble with collision detection recently. I'm attempting to make a 2D platformer. All I need is rectangle-on-rectangle collision detection, and then to respond on collision by moving the two rectangles involved in opposite directions. Thanks in advance.

I just got G5 PPC Mac the user who gave it to me claims that it "died during an update. It will not boot from the CD. It was running 10.5 and I have the disk. Using the C key with 2 keyboards. I booted into the open firmware using …

Hello! My issue is that I have to disc readers. One DVD RW and the other a CD RW. I have to slots for them, I plugged them both in, power cables and connector cables. Howeverm the computer only reads that there is a CD RW drive in it. I …

Hello, Over the past couple of days, I've been struggling with getting collision detection to work for my game, a 2D sidescrolling platformer, made with SFML 2. This is example code using my most recent method of collision detection, although it has some flaws: // main.h #ifndef MAIN_H #define MAIN_H …

Hello, I have developed an app. I want to protect this app, just like the one where we install some software by entering CD-key/Serial key. But I m not understanding how to do it? I want the serial key to be based on some formulation by MAC address! My Case: …

Hello, I'm fairly new to programming, and I'm not exactly sure how to do line-rect collision detection. If it helps, I'm using SFML 2. Can someone explain to me how I would go about coding line-rect collision detection? Thanks in advance.

Hi Although my PC detects my disc drives and can play from them when I try to write to the RW drive I get a message "No disc detected". I am using Roxio Creator LE Dell Edition. I have cleaned the laser carefully using methylated spirits and a surgically clean …

Hello, I would like your opinion on my collision detection & jumping code. Is it efficient enough to be used in a full-blown game? Any ideas on how I could improve the efficiency of the code? Any bugs? Please reply with (constructive) criticism, comments & suggestions. Link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56274235/Working%20Collision%20Detection%20%26%20Jump.zip Thank you …

Can someone give me some resources (books, online tutorials, etc.) on algorithms for 2D collision detection? I've searched a little, and all the ones I can find are for 3D collision detection. Thanks in advance. EDIT: Just to clarify, I know [I]how[/I] to do collision detection, just not efficiently.

Hello everyone. I'm trying to code the cd shell command in c. I used chdir function to code it but the problem is that when I execute the program on the terminal it doesn't change the directory. I kept a series printfs and conditions to test if it changes, though …

Hi I want to boot the Laptop / Desktop via network boot CD and get connected to shared folders. Shared folder contain Ghost image ( WinXP and Win7). Please let me know how can i create a network boot CD Thanks Knev

I'm currently running on a Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 1 and my CD-Drive doesn't seem to close itself. It will open on it's own, most of the time, but when it does do that it won't close itself. But that's not my main concern. My …

Best of the weekend to everyone! This 5 year old iBook (256 MB RAM, 600 MHz CPU, OSX 10.4) has been faithfully operating until recently. It "locked up" and was allowed to shut down normally (but very slowly). Now when attempting to start the machine, it slowly brings up the …

hello my computer is a gateway computer windows vista and it was working fine until yesterday yesterday i bought a webcam and it had that mini cd thing, and i put it into the cd rom. but my cd rom is vertical, so the cd fell into the cpu inside. …

Ok... i am trying to repair a friends computer (Intel Celeron 2.8Ghz 1GB Ram - custom build from some computer shop) initially the problem was that it no longer turned on... so i replaced the power supply. The computer now turns on, however it does not boot from the hard …

Hi, I need to "force" a CD Drive to "read " an empty CD. e.g. make the laser move across the the disc's surface while it is spinning as if it was reading data. Usually when a blank CD is inserted the Drive starts reading but then stop right away …

Hi, I am working on a project, I need to control a CD Drive via the IDE/ATA Interface using a C/C++ program. My goal is to control the Speed of the Drive, and hopefully the radial position of the optical pickup head. I am still fairly new to this field, …

Hi folks, I'm creating a bootloader for my setup CD in NASM, and so far I've got the PVD (Primary Volume Descriptor) stored in a buffer. Now I'm stuck, as I'm not sure exactly how the Directory Records .etc. are structured; how is the one-to-many relationship implemented .etc. as it …

hello every1, am doin my final yr dissertation on cd database ( audio cd and mp3 cd). I'm to develop something similar to media player. My software should be able to copy cds and save on computer. user should b able to search 4 a specific song and play it. …