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Message: [QUOTE="rmc_olderthandirt, post: 1212501, member: 68872"] Kawidude: First off, my experience with Vista is that it sucks. Nine months ago I had a pre-release version of Vista that I was testing my companies products on. Used the same motherboard & peripherals, just swapped hard disk to go between XP and Vista. Vista was noticably slower and just was a pain to deal with. I have also encountered several people who have bought a new laptop/PC that had Vista loaded on it and they ended up re-formatting thier hard disk and loading XP because there was some program that they had to run (such as schematic capture or similar work related programs) that simply would not run under Vista. The "LM" licensing servers seem to have issues with Vista. As for your specific problem: I am going to take a wild guess and say that when you wrote the files the output file was not closed properly. What can happen is that there can be a cache memory, either in the CPU itself or in the disk drive that is used to speed up operations. When an application "writes" the data doesn't necessarily end up on the media right away, it can linger in the cahce for a while. This can be a major problem when writing to a removable media and you remove it wihtout closing it properly. The common cases are USB flash drives that get yanked out without properly shutting down. It is possible (common, in fact) that the directory structure has not been fully updated and the last portion of a file that was written may get lost. You indicated that you burned the files to a disk, which I assume is a CD. I have never seen this kind of issue when writing a CD before, but I would not be surprised if the Vista operating system has a bug where they are not flushing the CPU cache properly. If it is a cache problem I would expect Microsoft to fix it pretty quick and have a patch available to download. You should check the Windows website and see if there are any updates to Vista. Rod [/QUOTE]

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