BAD experience
Written: Oct 17 '00 (Updated Dec 26 '00)
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Pros: LOOKS NICE
Cons: DOESN'T GET recognized by Windows
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| irinette's Full Review: Philips PC 400 Series External USB |
I had an amazingly awful experience with all my CD burners.
I am into music big time and Napster is my best friend, if you know what I mean, so, I wanted to have a nice external CD burner for making my own music remixes and share them with my friends or play at the parties. Also, my hard drive kept overloading with all kinds of data and CD burner would come to help with data backup.
So, I went to Best Buy and purchase Iomega burner for $249. The first 5-6 discs I burned amazingly fast and neat. No errors whatsoever... However, after the 6th disk Iomega sent to trash around 10-12 other Sony/TDK R discs. I thought: all right, maybe RAM problem, freed some RAM (I have 128MBs), got rid of any running programs and tried to burn again. Another spoiled disk. So, I thought, all right, maybe it's a good time to defragment C drive and give it another chance. So it was, defragmenting helped a lot, and I successfully made another 2 discs. The next 7 discs were sent directly to the trash. So, I thought, all right, maybe it's a SPEED problem, and reduced burning from 4x to 2x. The discs kept being spoiled and thrown away. So, I intended all the steps above (defragmenting, freeing RAm etc), nothing worked. IOMEGA stopped serving me.
So, I thought, all right, maybe it's about time to get IOMEGA replaced (I had it less than one month). I got a new identical IOMEGA which happened to be WORSE. After spoiling a good number of Sony discs I took the second IOMEGA to Best Buy. My next target was Phillips, USB, External. Looked great, there was some HOPE.
I brought it home, was very excited to try it out and get rid of the numerous MP3 piled up on my C drive. All right, then. I inserted the necessary discs and USB port, of course. NO DEVICE was automatically found by my windows. I was shocked.... All right, I said, maybe I should check if everything connected tight and that maybe I restart my windows (I tried with both 98 and ME). Still, no device was found. Finally, after trying so many times, my OS acknowledged an unknown device. I tried to bring it up so that it would show as Phillips however, nothing like that happened: the device was not recognized as anything at all. I reread the installation guide, manual, everything I could find. IT looked simple: plug USB in, wait for the windows to give you "searching for the driver" etc... Nothing happened. So, I got upset and took it back...
I thought that my third external CD burner would at least work. But noo...not this time. So, I decided to postpone my next purchase until I find something I can really use and trust.
and here I am...CDwriterless...with bunch of data on the hard drive...
what to trust?
maybe HP would work..I've heard some good stuff about their burners...
Recommended:
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irinette
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Member: Irina
Location: San Diego, CA
Reviews written: 67
Trusted by: 11 members
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