tomstevens26
Senior member
Hey everyone...quick question.
A couple of weeks back I had an HP 9300i CDRW start making grinding noises on me. I just received my replacement from HP, installed it, burneda few CDs and everything seems to be working fine. What I have noticed, however, is that it seems slow reading some parts of CDs that are nearly full. For example, I burned about 25 folders to a blank CD last night...probably used about 680MB of a 700MB disc. If I put the CD in it reads fine. When I try going into the last 2 folders on the disc (folders beginning with W) it takes about 30 seconds for it to actually open up the folder. I can go in and out of the other folders on the disc, open files in them, etc... without lag. Its only these last 2 folders... Because they are the last folders alphabetically could they be toward the end of the disc, or would this even matter. The files in the folders eventually open up but why does it lag when accessing them? I've tried the disc in 2 other drives and it works fine...no lag or anything. I seem to recall my old HP drive acting the same way on a disc that was nearly full. Is this a known issue with certain drives, setups, etc...?
Thanks for any advice,
Tom
A couple of weeks back I had an HP 9300i CDRW start making grinding noises on me. I just received my replacement from HP, installed it, burneda few CDs and everything seems to be working fine. What I have noticed, however, is that it seems slow reading some parts of CDs that are nearly full. For example, I burned about 25 folders to a blank CD last night...probably used about 680MB of a 700MB disc. If I put the CD in it reads fine. When I try going into the last 2 folders on the disc (folders beginning with W) it takes about 30 seconds for it to actually open up the folder. I can go in and out of the other folders on the disc, open files in them, etc... without lag. Its only these last 2 folders... Because they are the last folders alphabetically could they be toward the end of the disc, or would this even matter. The files in the folders eventually open up but why does it lag when accessing them? I've tried the disc in 2 other drives and it works fine...no lag or anything. I seem to recall my old HP drive acting the same way on a disc that was nearly full. Is this a known issue with certain drives, setups, etc...?
Thanks for any advice,
Tom
