Can't Burn with Known Good CD-RW

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mr x

I thought my CD-RW was dying, I had tried the follow:
1) Trying a different CD-R
2) Rebooting
3) uninstalling the CD-RW drive in device manager and letting windows
redetect.
4) unintstalling all cd rom and cd-rw drives and letting windows redetect
the drives.
5) uninstalling and reinstalling my burning program.
6) Doing a repair reinstall of windows xp.

Nothing has worked. The drive still has cd reading capabilites but it won't
burn a cd at all. I am currently getting an "invalid field in parameter" in
Nero when I try to burn a cd.

Earlier in the day I was getting "drive already in use by another program"
even after rebooting. And what is even weirder is that windows was
"detecting" 3 cd media drives before I did a repair reinstall of windows -
the 2 drives I actually have and a phantom SCSI cd-rom drive. I have never
had a SCSI anything in my system. hehe. pretty strange.

Also the firmware was up to date in my 12x CD-RW.

---

So I bought a new 52x CD-RW thinking the drive had gone bad. (Hey, they're
not that expensive and I wanted a faster one). Anyway, I am still getting
the same error (""invalid field in parameter") when I try to burn.

Any suggestions?
 
BTW I am using windows xp pro. Tried reinstalling sp1 to see if that would
help anything but no it didn't
 
Other things you can try:
1) Giving the drive its own IDE cable (and setting it to master)
2) Getting technical support from the company that makes it
3) Tech support from Nero (you bought it right? :-))
4) Make sure there's not an IRQ conflict in your BIOS (doubtful) between
your CD-RW and something else important).
5) Check if the drive is supported by WinXp. Google would find any
systematic problems.

Good luck!

--Mitchua
 
what mobo chipset u have MR X?

if it's Nforce2 (maybe even nforce aswell) the 2.04 (??) - pre 2.45 nforce
drivers didnt support IDE properly.
i installed the IDE SW drivers and my HDD's were detected as SCSI (i havent
got scsi anywhere near my pc - all ATA's). POSSIBLY when i had problems with
my CDRW drive too - so i bought a new one.

i upgraded to the latest 2.45 nforce drivers and SCSI problem went away
(also did it when i reinstalled the 2.04 nforce drivers and DIDNT install
IDE SW drivers)

if your not Nforce, have you tried flashing your BIOS and updating your
motherboard chipset drivers?

tim
 
| I thought my CD-RW was dying, I had tried the follow:
| 1) Trying a different CD-R
| 2) Rebooting
| 3) uninstalling the CD-RW drive in device manager and letting windows
| redetect.
| 4) unintstalling all cd rom and cd-rw drives and letting windows redetect
| the drives.
| 5) uninstalling and reinstalling my burning program.
| 6) Doing a repair reinstall of windows xp.
|
| Nothing has worked. The drive still has cd reading capabilites but it won't
| burn a cd at all. I am currently getting an "invalid field in parameter" in
| Nero when I try to burn a cd.
|
| Earlier in the day I was getting "drive already in use by another program"
| even after rebooting. And what is even weirder is that windows was
| "detecting" 3 cd media drives before I did a repair reinstall of windows -
| the 2 drives I actually have and a phantom SCSI cd-rom drive. I have never
| had a SCSI anything in my system. hehe. pretty strange.
|
| Also the firmware was up to date in my 12x CD-RW.
|
| ---
|
| So I bought a new 52x CD-RW thinking the drive had gone bad. (Hey, they're
| not that expensive and I wanted a faster one). Anyway, I am still getting
| the same error (""invalid field in parameter") when I try to burn.
|
| Any suggestions?

I've seen some strange things happen with CD-RWs when no ASPI layer has been
installed. You're not supposed to need it with WinXP, but I couldn't burn any
CDs until the layer was present.

If you haven't already installed ASPI, you can get it here:

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/suppdetail.html?prodkey=ASPI-4.70

Download and follow instructions to install version 4.71.2 dated 11/23/02.

This may not help, but it certainly won't hurt.

Larc



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Another thing you can try is disabling the burning feature present in WinXP
pro.

Just select the drive and select proprieties and under burning deselect the
burning capability.
 
mr x <[email protected]> said:
Nothing has worked. The drive still has cd reading capabilites but it won't
burn a cd at all. I am currently getting an "invalid field in parameter" in
Nero when I try to burn a cd.

Earlier in the day I was getting "drive already in use by another program"
even after rebooting. And what is even weirder is that windows was
"detecting" 3 cd media drives before I did a repair reinstall of windows -
the 2 drives I actually have and a phantom SCSI cd-rom drive. I have never
had a SCSI anything in my system. hehe. pretty strange.
Click to expand...

Did you install some other CD copying software, such as Alcohol 120?
This adds a phantom cd-rom drive. Guess the repair install removed the
references to it.
Also the firmware was up to date in my 12x CD-RW.

---

So I bought a new 52x CD-RW thinking the drive had gone bad. (Hey,
they're
not that expensive and I wanted a faster one). Anyway, I am still getting
the same error (""invalid field in parameter") when I try to burn.

Any suggestions?
Click to expand...
Wouldn't you need to uninstall nero and install the version of nero that
specifically came with your new cd-rw? Thought the bundled software is
generally cd-writer specific.
 
Seems like Nero 6 is causing a lot of problems for people from what
I've read fron various newsgroups so here's another possibility you
might like to try

go to

www.feurio.com

download feurio version 1.66 (It's free and it's a bloody great
program. I won't use anything else!)

See if you can burn using this. If you can then it's good bet that
Nero 6 is your problem. I get the impression that Nero rushed to get
version 6 onto the market after Roxio beat them to the punch by a
couple of months with ECDC6. As a result, from what I've been reading,
there appear to be some major bugs in the software especially for
burning DVDs.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Baldric
 
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