The General Tech Support Thread

NejinOniwa · January 09, 2009, 03:40:28 PM

HAY GUISE IT'S ME AGAIN

So, I figured we need one of those. Generic thing, but necessary, right?

Let's get to things, anyway.

I have a LightScribe DVD-RW, DL, blah blah, all that. So I install a LightScribe flasher to flash images on my dvd's. That doesn't work, so I install the official LightScribe archives. So, now it works...but! The genius of machinery tells me that MY DRIVE IS NOT A LIGHTSCRIBE DRIVE.

Seriously, wtf. Does anyone know how to go about fixing this?
(and I spent over 9000 minutes in GIMP fixing that Win7 label too...)

Bella · January 13, 2009, 11:03:29 PM

Ehm... my HP is supposed to have a lightscribe drive (I think?)... but... I've never tried it out... so I can't help. Sorry. ^^;

Maybe... you should check out a hardware forum? I dunno, I've been doing research into the parts I should buy for my emachines upgrade project, and forums have helped me out quite a bit.

Smokey · January 14, 2009, 05:42:28 AM

try uninstalling and then reinstalling all the drivers and software you got with the drive... plus try Nero wich has with the later editions native support for lightscribe if i'm not mistaken (i'd look for ya, but i have to get my hair mauled

)...

NejinOniwa · January 14, 2009, 09:38:53 AM

The drivers are windows native. No software came with the drive. The thing is that the LightScribe runtime doesn't detect my drive AS A LIGHTSCRIBE-CAPABLE DEVICE.

Ah, screw it.

Then, another problem. Whenever I try partitioning my hard drive, it gives me an error and tells me to run chkdisk - after which it still gives me an error. I saw chkdisk erase some index files last time, but i dunno.
The duck is that shit!?

Smokey · January 14, 2009, 10:46:38 AM

That sounds like the crappy native Windows Partitioning software...wich sucks....

Try PartionMagic, I never had any problems resizing partitions (or split them, etc, even when they were half full) with that...

NejinOniwa · January 14, 2009, 01:40:18 PM

Nope. I tried with both Paragon, as well as gparted under puppy...same shit happens. I suspect dualbooting XP / XP64 is at fault.

Smokey · January 14, 2009, 02:12:31 PM

wow, eehm...
how old is that disk?

NejinOniwa · January 18, 2009, 12:56:54 PM

Bought it in the first DELTA batch, so it's from Fall -07, some year and a half. Really shouldn't be anything strange with stuff that new, should there?

Smokey · January 18, 2009, 01:21:09 PM

no, unless that drive's been running almost non-stop since then....
I once had a WD disk that died after working for just one year non-stop with ~15 hours of downtime...
And even relatively young disks develop bad clusters and sectors depending of usage...

NejinOniwa · January 18, 2009, 02:18:50 PM

Funyuu. -.-

Smokey · January 18, 2009, 03:52:35 PM

Have you tried (I am assuming you are experienced with DOS) Booting with a DOS bootdisk and using native DOS chkdsk?
My experience learns me that DOS commands and applications are more powerful than windows-based counterparts...
That's why i still frequently override windows with DOS...

NejinOniwa · January 18, 2009, 04:30:06 PM

Then you assume quite wrong, since I didn't really learn much about computer theory when I was like, 8 years old... >_>

I could use DOSBOX or something, I guess, but I don't think it'd do much difference. Besides, how a DOS-native app would do better on a disk system AND file system newer than itself, I understand not...

Smokey · January 18, 2009, 05:09:31 PM

Naah DOS used a lot of low level stuff, but eerm, i don't know how to soften the blow on this, so i'll just say what i think is the case according to my own (tragic) experience ; You have to format the partition in order to flag the bad sectors the chicken-shit, win-based chkdsk cant...
I had to do that on an 80GB partition losing 20GB of carefully collected animez and music wich i couldn't back up...
So before you continue, i suggest backing up and checking if there are any files/folders giving any problems...

NejinOniwa · January 19, 2009, 01:58:44 AM

Don't see any reason to, really, since I don't have any means of backing up 400 gigabytes of data easily, and it's not giving me any other hard drive-related problems...

Smokey · January 19, 2009, 06:09:00 AM

You wouldn't happen to have another HDD on wich to do the (what was it again you wanted to do?) thing you wanted to do?