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                         Adaptec Easy CD Creator 3.5

                    (c) Copyright Adaptec, Inc. 1995-1998

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Welcome to Adaptec Easy CD Creator
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The following information is available in this README file:


  o  UNINSTALLATION
  o  CREATING A BOOTABLE CD-ROM
  o  WINDOWS 95/NT GENERAL TROUBLESHOOTING
  o  USING SAME DRIVE AS SOURCE/DESTINATION TO COPY MIXED MODE CD's


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INSTALLATION AND UNINSTALLATION
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  To Uninstall in Windows 95 or NT 4.0:

     Use the standard uninstall feature "Add/Remove Programs" in the
     Control Panel.


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CREATING A BOOTABLE CD-ROM
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  WARNING:  Creating a Bootable CD-ROM is intended for the advanced user.
  It requires an understanding of how to create bootable floppy disks and
  how to create and edit DOS CONFIG.SYS and/or AUTOEXEC.BAT files.

  Adaptec Easy CD Creator allows you to create CDs that you can boot from.
  However, not all systems support booting from CD-ROMs.  Here is what you
  will need:

    1.)  If your computer has a built-in CD-ROM drive, you should check your
         system BIOS settings and see if you can enable Bootable CD-ROM
         support.  Most Pentium class systems (or higher) support this
         feature.

    2.)  If your CD-ROM drive is connected to a SCSI host adapter, and if
         the SCSI host adapter has a BIOS on-board, you should check your
         host adapter documentation and see if it supports booting from a
         CD-ROM.

  Adaptec Easy CD Creator creates a bootable CD-ROM by copying the contents
  of a bootable floppy disk to your CD.  When you boot to the CD-ROM, the
  exact contents of your floppy disk are now seen on your CD-ROM drive.
  Under most configurations, the CD-ROM drive is accessible as drive A: while
  your floppy drive automatically moves from drive A: to B:.

  When you boot to your CD-ROM, your drive A: will only show you the contents
  that were on your floppy disk.  You will not see any of the files that were
  added to your CD layout from within Easy CD Creator.  In order to see the
  CD-ROM content, you need to properly create the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
  that are on the root directory of your bootable floppy disk / CD-ROM.

  The creation of the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT is dependent on the system
  you are planning to boot from.  The CONFIG.SYS file will typically contain
  the instructions to load your DOS CD-ROM driver while the AUTOEXEC.BAT file
  will contain the instructions to load Microsoft's DOS CD-ROM Extensions
  (i.e. MSCDEX.EXE).

  Please consult your system's documentation for the proper way to load your
  DOS CD-ROM driver and MSCDEX.EXE.  You should test this configuration with
  your bootable floppy disk before you create a bootable CD-ROM.  If your
  target system boots properly with the floppy disk, and assigns a drive
  letter for the CD-ROM drive on that system, you're ready to create a
  bootable CD-ROM.

  TIP:  When you add the lines to the CONFIG.SYS and/or AUTOEXEC.BAT, do not
        use fixed paths.  For example:

        Recommended Entry:  device=aspicd.sys /d:aspicd0

        Not Recommended:    device=a:\aspicd.sys /d:aspicd0

  At this point, you have learned how to prepare a floppy disk with the
  necessary files to create a bootable CD-ROM.  You have also learned which
  systems support bootable CD-ROMs.  Now let's look at how Easy CD Creator
  creates a bootable CD-ROM.

  Launch Easy CD Creator and click Cancel if the Wizard option appears.
  Follow these simple steps:

    1.)  Click on the "File" menu option
    2.)  Click on the "CD Layout Properties" menu option
    3.)  When the "CD Layout Properties" window appears, click on the "Data
         Settings" tab
    4.)  If the File System is not set to "ISO9600", change it to "ISO9660"
    5.)  Click on the "Bootable" check box to enable bootable CD-ROM support
    6.)  Click on the "OK" button at the bottom of the "CD Layout Properties"
         window.

  After you follow these steps, Easy CD Creator will ask you to insert your
  bootable floppy disk into your floppy drive.  The contents of the floppy
  will then be copied to your system and stored in your CD Layout.

  Now simply use Easy CD Creator as you normally do.  Drag and Drop files
  and folders into your Layout.  When you have completed creating your
  layout, choose the "Create CD" option to create your bootable CD-ROM.

  When the CD has been created, take it to the system you wish to boot from.
  Make sure it has bootable CD-ROM support enabled, insert the bootable CD in
  your CD-ROM drive, and reboot the system.  If everything worked well, you
  will see the contents of your bootable floppy disk as drive A: and the
  contents of your CD Layout as Drive X: (where X: is determined by how you
  configure MSCDEX.EXE in your AUTOEXEC.BAT).


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WINDOWS 95/NT GENERAL TROUBLESHOOTING
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  o  Some CD-R/CD-RW drives will only extract audio at 1x.

  o  If you select "Cancel" when doing a test run of a Disc at Once disc,
     Easy CD Creator may not return control to you right away.  A few drives
     exhibit this problem since they don't return control to Easy CD Creator
     in a timely manner.

  o  Not all CD-ROM drives support digital audio extraction.  Easy CD Creator
     will notify you if it cannot extract audio from your CD-ROM drive.  In
     this case, we recommend you use your CD-R/CD-RW drive to extract audio.

  o  If you are copying CDs or audio tracks from a source ATAPI CD-ROM
     drive, you may experience buffer underruns if your CD-ROM drive is
     not fast enough to keep up with your CD-R/CD-RW drive.  If you
     experience this, you should try reducing your write speed to 1x, or
     buffer to your hard drive first.


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USING SAME DRIVE AS SOURCE/DESTINATION TO COPY MIXED MODE CD's
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Using your CD-Recorder as both a source and destination drive is not supported when 
recording mixed mode cd's, such as game CD-ROM discs or CD-Extra cd's, such as music 
audio CD-ROM discs. The work around to this issue is to: 

    1. Use a separate CD-ROM drive for your source drive and use your recorder as your 
       destination drive or
    2. Use Easy CD Creator to create a CIF image & record from the CIF image to a blank
       disc; see Chapter 8 of your Easy CD Creator User's Guide for details 

This issue will be addressed in a future version of Easy CD Creator.