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You hear clicks, pops, and skips

If your audio disc plays but you hear clicks, pops, and skips, the CD was not recorded properly. See Making Audio CDs on page 86 for more information on this problem.

See Also:

■The disc is scratched, damaged, or dirty on page 86.

■80-Minute CDs on page 88.

A computer DVD-ROM drive cannot read a recorded disc

Try reading the disc in an HP drive, if available

Otherwise, try reading the disc in a different CD-ROM drive.

High Speed CDs

A high speed CD-RW disc was used in a drive that does not support high speed

New discs are available that support CD-RW writing speeds of 8X or higher. Older drives that support 1X to 4X CD-RW writing speeds do not support writing to high- speed discs. In this case, you cannot use high speed CD-RW media, and must purchase 2X or 4X certified CD-RW media.

To determine if this applies to your problem, examine the logo on the front of the CD-RWdrive. If the drive does not have the "high speed" designation, do not attempt to use high speed CD-RW media rated at 8X or higher.

Some DVD-ROM drives read discs very slowly if Read Ahead capabilities are enabled in Windows 95/98/Me

See Turn off Read Ahead capabilities for the drive. on page 87.

A DVD movie player cannot play a recorded disc

Make sure this is an audio CD, not a data CD.

DVD movie players cannot read data discs.

Use the correct media

Most DVD movie players can play audio CDs that are recorded on CD-RW media. Most DVD movie players cannot play audio CDs recorded on CD-R media. If you need to play recorded audio CDs in a DVD movie player, try recording on each media type, CD-R and CD-RW. If your DVD movie player can play CD-R discs, then always use CD-R media as these discs will also play in stereo CD players. If your DVD movie player only plays CD-RW discs, always use that media. Note that most stereo CD players cannot play CD-RW discs.

80-Minute CDs

Acomputer CD-ROM or HP drive cannot read an 80-minute

CD

The CD is scratched, damaged, or dirty

■If the CD is scratched or damaged, it may be unreadable.

■If the CD is dirty, gently clean it to remove fingerprints, dust, and smudges. For more information, see Reading CDs on page 86.

Try reading the CD in a different drive

In some cases, you can try using a different drive to read the CD.

Use the drive that was used to write the CD

If you're using a drive different from the one used to write the data, try reading the CD in the original drive.

See Also:

An error occurred while recording

 

 

 

If an error occurred while writing the CD, you may not be able to read some or all of

■ The disc is scratched, damaged, or dirty on page 86.

the CD. You may not be able to accurately verify a recording error especially if you

■ 80-Minute CDs on page 88.

did not record the CD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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