The Daily Sucker

How I spent my Friday, Saturday and most of Sunday:

I hate Easy Media Creator 10 (and 9). It took forever to get 9 installed and even then I couldn’t write DVDs. That didn’t bother me because I had other programs that filled in for that function. Like a complete, total idiot I buy the full version of 10 and try to install it. Won’t happen because of some old versions of other software programs. The installation stopped and rolled back.

Like a complete, absolute, total idiot I go in and rename ONE file that was allegedly a Roxio file (drvmcdb.sys) and reboot the system. BSOD with an error code only three suspicious Chinese sites had any info about. Even Microsoft didn’t have info about the code. No emergency boot disk I had would work (thank you Acronis) so my backups were useless. Oh, and I can’t get to my e-mail in Outlook and there were four speaking inquiries that had just come in.

As a last, desperate measure I created a bootable Knoppix OS disk and went in, booted up my PC and re-renamed the file and lo and behold Windows works and my computer works. Knoppix Rocks!

What do you use to create CDs and DVDs. I’m obviously in the market for something that works on my XP system.