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That may be the case but its odd that I have older cd's with programs on them that I have stored in the bottom of drawers without sleeves or just laying around for years, that work just fine...



Yes, not all CD roms are created (or burned) equally.

This can be a problem when a disk is burned with a consumer level burner, which has a lesser laser in it. Not saying that is what happened here, for I don't know. There are different specs for this sort of thing.

Also, there can be problems with certain Media, even just a bad lot of disks, which was much more the case a decade or so ago than it is today.

Luck of the draw, I guess, if it helps, I feel your pain, I've had that happen here, too.

My lesson learned is that I never trust any one system of data storage at all and I try to keep up on those critical backups. For example, these days I use USB hard drives to make backup copies of everything, plus I use the online "Carburundum" backup service, too.


--Mac

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