home CD ROM cannot read CD, work CD ROM can... what the?

[patpat]

I bought a tv series on VCD. 39 of the 40 cds play without problem, but the other 1 cannot be read by my E drive. Then I took it to work, and it worked fine. What is the problem? Is that 1 unreadable cd too advanced for my CD ROM at home?

I have the HP 8290 CD Writer at home,

and I have the Samsung CD Rom SC-148C at work.

Can someone who knows different CD Roms tell me if what is the difference between the 2 and why the samsung one can read the cd while the HP one cannot?

thanks

[macleod]

probably has some amount of errors that your home cd rom cannot read, while the "better" cd rom at work can.

[Cornucopia]

I know many people that've had problems with the 8000 series HP writers. Doesn't surprise me.

Scott

[patpat]

I can't believe it took me so long to think to try this, but last night on a whim I installed my old CDROM and tried out the CD, and it worked. So I copied the movie file to the harddrive, and I can burn it to another CDR with my CD writer, and hopefully that should solve whatever problem there was... I'll try that tonight. Didn't have time last nite.

A couple of other VCDs that my HP CDROM had troubles with (freezing), my old CDROm could play too. Man and I thought the HP was an upgrade over what I had...