Bentley Problem

Ti Kan ti at amb.org
Wed Jan 14 16:38:35 EST 2004


Zaphod Beeblebrox writes:
> When I first bought the Bentley CD for my '95 90Q I immediately made a
> backup CD and installed the program on my PC (currently Windows 2000Pro).
> All along I have been using the original CD rather than the copy to run the
> program (my mistake). A while back I found that the program would no longer
> run from the original. Sure enough, the surface is scratched to the point
> that the failure is no surprise. Good thing I made a backup. I can run it
> from the backup, so no problem, right? Wrong!
> 
> After a HD failure recently I tried to re-install Bentley on the new HD
> using the backup. It will not install and I can't I copy that CD with any of
> the hardware & software combinations I have available.
> 
> Has anyone out there got a solution to this dilemma, other than purchasing a
> replacement from Bentley at 1/2 price?

Sometimes the CD-R media you used for backup may be incompatible with
the drive that you're using to read it on.  One possibility is to
re-burn another backup from your backup on a different brand of media
and see if that would work.

-Ti
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