Lainaus:

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>> Re: Samsung SD-608 DVD only recognizes CD's in Windows XP

Hi every one, for 5 years I have hunted the internet insesantly for a solution to resolving the drive issues as experienced with the samsung SD 608.

Samsung were to politely put it, not very good on the CSR front, neither were dell, the latter were quite candid in telling me that perhaps it would be far easyer to replace said drive and probably use it as either a paper weight or recycled as a water feature.

I had my drive supplied with a dell, xps 640 old dimension system, I had to do a reinstall of 98se as registry became corrupted through virus attack, physically and system board logic, tested all in the green, just will nolonger run even after reinstalling drivers under Dell direction from original Dell drivers cd!!

It took a 4 hour train jeorney and a passing conversation with a Korean national in business class, for me to get an interesting perspective, He had worked for samsung at one point and he told me this: The SD 608 had a design flaw born out of pre emptive anti copy right abuse, proto DRM technology like the very thing you get with micro$oft product limited hardware change options before total reinstallation, each drive would come encoded with its OWN driver a bit like win 98 or XP key, you get one shot at running the drives, so interestingly enough these drivers are held by purchasing companies and supposed to be added to reinstallation discs, but what happens is that we all get one Driver (key) that works with a drive in a machine in lets say wisconsin, while the rest of the world gets to eat cake, keys are scrapped, service life expires and we have gloryfied paper weights, with some people the dvd element works because thay have cracked or ultra patched copies of operating systems which fall back on another driver which just about fits the profile, or the oposite its stuck in cd rom mode or it just does'nt work, so that I have resolved NEVER to buy Samsung or Dell again.

I have trawled every pay-per view driver page every free driver page harassed companies till I've had cease and desist orders, all I have found have been Trojans, Virus', code for testing modems and dressed up drivers, "Links" and the ministrations of diseased, filth pedaling minds. There is no solution.

So Im Off down Computers R s**te pick up a new Crap=top with Bimbows Fister ultimate sedition and call it quits on keeping dead tech alive.

Who's with me?

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Lainaus:

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it would be far easyer to replace said drive and probably use it as either a paper weight

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Lainaus:

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I have resolved NEVER to buy Samsung or Dell again.

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