[mcurrens]

I just picked up EMC 9 from Sam's Club this afternoon, and after work I decided to do the install.

I put the disc in the drive and it doesn't auto-play. Hmm. I open my computer and the disc is unnamed and has 4.37 of 4.37 Gb free. I flipped the disc over and it's obvious that nothing is recorded on the disc.

Then I look at the content disc and it too is blank.

Is this a known mess up, or am I just lucky?

I also discovered while looking at this forum that EMC 9 won't work with Vista RC1, which is a major bummer since both my computers are now running it. Do any of the individual components work, like MyDVD?

[grandpabruce]

mcurrens, on Sep 29 2006, 11:53 PM, said:

I just picked up EMC 9 from Sam's Club this afternoon, and after work I decided to do the install.

I put the disc in the drive and it doesn't auto-play. Hmm. I open my computer and the disc is unnamed and has 4.37 of 4.37 Gb free. I flipped the disc over and it's obvious that nothing is recorded on the disc.

Then I look at the content disc and it too is blank.

Is this a known mess up, or am I just lucky?

I also discovered while looking at this forum that EMC 9 won't work with Vista RC1, which is a major bummer since both my computers are now running it. Do any of the individual components work, like MyDVD?

Are your opticals set to autoplay? As far as EMC 9 not working with Vista RC1 (A BETA SOFTWARE), you need to do a lot of reading on these forums. There is a workaround that will have it work with older builds of RC1, but the newer versions work just fine.

And, I really have to ask..."What the hell do you mean you flipped the disk over"?

[mcurrens]

grandpabruce, on Sep 29 2006, 09:04 PM, said:

Are your opticals set to autoplay? As far as EMC 9 not working with Vista RC1 (A BETA SOFTWARE), you need to do a lot of reading on these forums. There is a workaround that will have it work with older builds of RC1, but the newer versions work just fine.

And, I really have to ask..."What the hell do you mean you flipped the disk over"?

What I mean by Flipped the disk over is, I took the disc out of the drive, turned it over and eyeballed it. They look like unburned DVD media, no circular track lines around the discs.

My computer shows them as Blank DVD +R discs with 4.37 gb of free space.

This post has been edited by mcurrens: 29 September 2006 - 09:20 PM

[james_hardin]

Commercial discs are pressed not burned so you are not going to see any tracks. It is not likely that they slipped through without being pressed.

Do you have another PC Drive you can check them in?

[ggrussell]

mcurrens, on Sep 30 2006, 12:53 AM, said:

I put the disc in the drive and it doesn't auto-play. Hmm. I open my computer and the disc is unnamed and has 4.37 of 4.37 Gb free.

Are you sure you were looking at the correct disc? EMC9 install is on a CD. Not a DVD. Perhaps a problem with Vista? If I remember correctly, you need build 5270 or higher EMC 9 to install correctly on Windows Vista. I also noticed that EMC 9 works MUCH better on 32bit Vista.