CD-RW won't record

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David DeBoer

Hello,

I have an HP PC that came with a HP CD-RW and Windows ME. I recently
formatted the drive, reinstalled ME and promptly upgraded to XP Home. Since
I did that the CD-RW is only a CD Drive. Two different recording software
programs I have used don't recognize the drive as a recorder. I have
physically removed the drive and tried two other drives, an HP and a
Phillips, in its place. No difference. I replaced the ribbon cable just to
rule that out. The registry shows the drive as a CD-RW and shows the
recording speed. The properties of the drive shows a recording tab. I
don't know what is left to try. I may just get an external USB drive but I
don't want to shell out money and end up with the same problem.

It looks like CD-RW problems aren't all that uncommon judging from this news
group.

Anyone have any thoughts??

Thanks.
 
Hello

Just curious what cd burnering software are you using, you
never mentioned that, also you mentioned you installed a new
Phillips cd-rw and still same issue, when you installed the new drive
did you remove the cdrom burning software and then re-install

Al
 
When i installed win xp and my nero software i had lots of
problems getting nero to recognise my cd burner. I ended
up installing a later version of nero from the website and
using my original cd key. Everything works fine now

If you think this could be the problen i'll check on my
other pc which version im using
 
Hello

Well can't hurt to give a try, but from just reading what your
saying soiunds like more of a software issue than hardware
since you already replaced your burner

Alvin
 
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