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Samsung DVD Writer Problem, Corrupt Disks

Owen · 2007-05-18 10:34:59

Just in case anyone has the same problems, I have a Samsung DVD Writer, Model 128M with Lightscribe, and it has been giving me no end of grief when installing apps, throwing up Cab errors left right and center. Turns out, Samsung have a utility to slow down the drive for reading, and once that's used, it will eliminate all…

18-05-2007 10:34am

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Just in case anyone has the same problems, I have a Samsung DVD Writer, Model 128M with Lightscribe, and it has been giving me no end of grief when installing apps, throwing up Cab errors left right and center. Turns out, Samsung have a utility to slow down the drive for reading, and once that's used, it will eliminate all issues.

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#2 18-05-2007 12:30pm

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It should be able to read the disc at normal speed more likely one of three scenarios is the cause;

* Damaged discs.
* Bad RAM in machine, copy errors a classic symptom.
* Defective drive.

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#3 18-05-2007 12:33pm

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Actually, you have to use the Utility. That's why they wrote it.

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