RE: [DL] Problem with e-book

[Jacek Warecki <JWarecki@aethersystems.com>]

Thank You All For Your Suggestions,

I am glad I made the mistake of sending my problem to the list because Joe
is right, it does appear to be an NT related problem.  All we have here are
NT machines, but we did find one dusty Red Hat Linux box, with which we were
able to read the CD, and access the files.

Thanks again for your help.  Joe, I owe you a beer, root beer if you're not
legal ;)  And If you are going to be at the Origins List Server Dinner, you
can even collect on this debt.

-Jack

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Frankovitch [mailto:slvrdrgn@larp.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 9:19 PM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: RE: [DL] Problem with e-book
> 
> 
> I ordered Law Dogs as an ebook and ran into this same problem.
> 
> I could not access the disk from a Windows NT or Windows 200 
> PC.  I could,
> however, read it just fine from Windows 98/ME.  It may be a Fat32/NTFS
> collision, but I doubt it.  The NT/200 machines I used were 
> also a little
> old, and the CD-Roms may not have been able to read the burned disc
> (especially ocmmon with re-writable discs).  The problem with 
> this second
> idea is that my brand new re-writable drive on Windows 2000 
> cannot read it.
> 
> I even went so far as to email Lee Bansen for a replacement 
> copy, before I
> found it would work on my Windows ME machine.  To his credit, 
> I had the
> replacement in 2 Days!
> 
> I recommend two things.  First, try a machine running Windows 
> 98/ME if you
> haven't already.  Otherwise, try a newer PC with a good 
> CD-Rom that can read
> Re-Writable discs.
> 
> I don't know what it is, but that's how I got it to work.  
> Once you find a
> PC it'll read on, I reccomend immediately copying them to the 
> hard drive and
> then burn your own copies.
> 
> Joe
>