I'm just too busy to argue the point Greg. I lost too much time with this problem and so I don't have the time to look up and copy & Paste the "Long Format/First light level wipe” that Windows formatting procedure does explain in various posts and topics. In other words, the details of this procedure are in at least two places on the web that I was at last night...
It does indeed do a light wipe, (I'm paraphrasing), the exact term used escapes me at the moment, (as I said, I'm pretty busy).
I have TWO Drive wiping programs of which one is payware. I've had and used them for at least 6 months. I know that I asked for help with this issue, which I will remind you was escaping every solution that we threw at it including the ones you offered.
Yes, there were some suggestions you made that I tried and others that I didn't for reasons that I think someone of your intelligence should easily understand.
I even explained that reason at least once before but once again, I think you were not reading some of my posts as carefully as you should have, (albeit, long as they were). Anyway, I had explained that I chose not to use SOME of your suggestions because they were going to take longer than more 'basic' approaches such as wiping/formatting the drive which WAS harboring the problem.
Other suggestions you made were just off the mark by quite a bit, (such as the Disc is scratched, the reader is bad), and any of the suggestions that focused on either of those two points were just not right.
You would have realized that if you read my posts regarding the fact that the DVD's , (two remember?), both worked properly in my wife’s computer as well as the USB's which didn't work on MY computer and the fact that my reader was able to read & write in the tests that I had done and then posted.
My point is obvious; if the DVD's and USB's work without hesitation in my wife's computer and DVD reader is doing everything it's supposed to do yet the OS DVD doesn't boot from the reader, then it's VERY unlikely, (not impossible), that the problem lies within either of those areas.
Therefore, pursuing suggestions in that area would be a waste of time, (which I did not have). So again, I thank you for sticking with me and I'm sorry that you apparently feel as if I wasn't trying the suggestions you made as some kind of insult.
It was not intended that way and in fact, I'm 56 years old, have a 138 IQ, (MENSA certified, not that online 20 question crap), and know more about computers than you seemed to have given me credit for.
My terminology of some of the procedures may not be exact but I make up for it with clear explanations in my posts. Just because someone asks for help on ANY subject that has such an unusual root problem as this did, does not mean they don't know anything about the subject at all.
It means that they know enough to understand that they don't have all the answers and want to hear opinions/suggestions from others who may or may not have the answer. But two heads on a difficult problem as this are better than one.
I didn't take offence when your statements implied somewhat less-than-flattering indications of my ability to grasp and understand the problem, nor did I get angry that you had apparently not read SOME of my posts carefully. That’s because it doesn't help me with the problem at hand and is unproductive.
If you should happen to read this post in its entirety, you should know that I appreciated your help on the matter and though I won't say that some your later suggestions would not have helped, I can say that my decision to use the Windows 'Long-Version' formatting worked and was the fastest solution to the problem.
Thanks again, Rich
I will TRY to mark this as "Solved" even though I didn't start this Topic, (again, that was something I mentioned in a post that I placed to you in the Topic I did start, (exact Title escapes me at the moment). However, if you see the Topic is still not listed as Resolved, it will mean that I don't have access to that option.
