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February 14th, 2005 17:00

DLA media failure when attempting CD format

The last 3 CD's I tried to format with DLA have ended up coasters because of a media failure/disc may be damaged. These are brand new CD-RW's. Any idea what could be causing this or how I go about finding out? Does it sound like the drive itself is damaged? CD/DVD's play fine and I havent had any installation problems off a disc. Thanks for any help.
  • osprey4

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    Posted February 14th, 2005 17:00

    zestyllahma:

    If you read through this forum, you will find out that very few experienced users use DLA at all. The convenience of "drag 'n drop" or saving from applications is more than offset by the headaches it can create. My suggestion would be to turn off or uninstall DLA, and just use your Sonic program to create multi-session data CD-RWs. Alternatively, the Windows CD-writing wizard is a pretty convenient method for putting data onto CD-RWs.

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    Posted February 14th, 2005 18:00

    OK, will do. Thanks for the advice. How do I go about disabling DLA? Do I have to uninstall Sonic first?
  • Predator

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    Posted February 14th, 2005 18:00




    Hi Zest,

    Currently John is off-line.
    Click on the CD/RW link in my post and scroll to Section 13-0, article 12, this will disable DLA and no you do not have uninstall it first..

    Best Regards





    God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
    the good fortune to run into the ones I do and the eyesight to tell the
    difference.



    CD/RW Link

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    Posted February 17th, 2005 13:00

    Thanks for the help, Predator. But I seem to be having a problem. When I untick the tab for enabling DLA and reboot I still have DLA enabled for some reason. It wont turn off. Perhaps theres a conflict of some sort that keeps enabling it? Should I just uninstall Sonic?
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    Posted February 17th, 2005 14:00

    Zesty:

    Uncheck DLA, then uninstall the Sonic DLA program. This is separate from the regular Sonic burning program.