So today I decided to go to Chenoy Trade Centre, Hyderabad’s official Fish Market For Computer-related Purchases, and buy a 50-pack of blank cds, so that I can clear my hard-disk of space, and also please assorted lj-friends/ex-college seniors by finally burning them stuff they’ve been asking for. Everything was done, I also picked up a sexy-looking 100-cd case, and successfully controlled the urge to pop into Sangeet Saagar, and by 3, was back at home, eager to begin the burn session.
Nero refused to work! It said ‘current program area empty’ and then ‘Could not perform fixation’ and then ‘Burn process failed at 8x’. Damn. That has indeed happened sometimes before, and so I restarted the writing at a different, slower speed. Nope, still didn’t work. I decided – ‘To hell with Nero!’ and downloaded something called DeepBurner, which is freeware, and is also quite small in size – the installer being only 2 MB. Installed, began burning. Refused to work.
That’s when I realised that my three year-old CD writer has kicked the bucket. Which was a grusesome thing to happen, because I was so confident of its ability to carry on burning until the End of Time, that I hadn’t even thought about such a thing happening. The first emotion, therefore, was one of panic – ‘My hard disk is going to overflow!’ and then ‘Udatta is gonna kill me – he’ll definitely never believe this excuse.’ And to this the fact that I was, post-Persepolis2 and Universal-CD-sale, officially Over-Budget for the month.
Then it struck me – What perfect timing! I can now go ahead and buy a DVD writer without the slightest amount of remorse and a clean conscience. An Omen! Here I was, worried about the intricacies of having THREE optical disc drives in my machine, and one of them is out of the picture.
I shall go out for a walk tomorrow. Maybe a bag of money will fall out the sky. You can never be too sure of the mysterious Ways of Fate, you know.
thats good news for muah ;) gettin them CDRWs as soon as u get tht writer :D
Ha!
Yes, you must go forth and buy a brand new DVD-writer. It is clear that this has been decreed by the gods.
On a related note, I’ve been drooling over new (entire) PC’s. Mine’s been causing me no end of trouble, lately, so I was already wistful over new systems, but a friend of mine lent me “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic”. I played it, at his place, last weekend, and it is, possibly, the BEST… GAME… EVER, but it does not… work… on my pc. And it’s because of the graphics card, which is integrated to the system, dangit. Too bad I can’t begin to afford a new one, anytime in the foreseeable future.
Re: Ha!
I am looking forward to playing Star Wars: KOTOR too. is sending a copy to me. :) I hope it plays on my pc though.
u gonna get a dvd writer???? mmmm
Yes, and I have some inside information about Malaysian DVDs being easier to write. SO get some.
Tee hee hee.
I won’t ask you to wait till your budday. Go ahead, buy a DeeVeeDee player >:P
Player? I already have a player. *sigh* there is a difference between a writer and a player, u know. ;;-)
Typo thaa >:P I meant a writer. Player is too expensive.
Blank DVDs
If you are getting blank DVDs for more than 50 bucks, dont bother. Pop into ISB for a short while and pick a pack of 25 Imation DVDs for 1250 bucks. I have been assured by the guy here that it will be hard to match this price.
How much does a DVD writer cost? I will be looking for one for my laptop.
Cheers,
Dhar
Re: Blank DVDs
Last I heard, blank DVDs come for 40-45 Rs at CTC, Park Lane, if you buy them in bulk. This was a month ago.
DVD writers come for 4500-5000 at the same place. But I have seen dealers on Baazee selling them for 3500. :-)
Re: Blank DVDs
Beatzo,
Are these external DVD writers you are talking about? At 5000 bucks, they seem pretty cheap!
Cheers,
Dhar
Re: Blank DVDs
Nope, not external drives.