No option to Erase CD-RW in CD Writing Tasks

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O/S: Windows XP Professional
Drive: Sony CD-RW CRX140E

This drive burned, erased, copied, and played back just fine under
Windows 2000 Professional using Roxio Easy CD Creator. The drive works
fine under Linux using KDE's K3b. But for some reason, it doesn't want
to work right under Windows XP.

Per an MS KB article, I've changed the drive type from 1 (CD-R) to 2
(CD-RW) in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD
Burning\Drives\Volume{cd089ac2-0c06-11d8-812c-806d6172696f}

I've checked Sony for firmware updates and there are none. I've checked
MS Windows Drivers Update site and it says I have the current driver.

Any ideas how to get XP to erase CD-RWs?

XP also has a problem correctly burning downloaded .iso images to CD.
Last time I tried burn an .iso image all it did was copy the .iso image
to the CD, as is, instead of laying it out on the disk so it was
bootable, etc.

Thanks in advance!

John
 
WinXP_Powered said:
O/S: Windows XP Professional
Drive: Sony CD-RW CRX140E

This drive burned, erased, copied, and played back just fine under Windows
2000 Professional using Roxio Easy CD Creator. The drive works fine under
Linux using KDE's K3b. But for some reason, it doesn't want to work right
under Windows XP.

Per an MS KB article, I've changed the drive type from 1 (CD-R) to 2
(CD-RW) in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD
Burning\Drives\Volume{cd089ac2-0c06-11d8-812c-806d6172696f}

I've checked Sony for firmware updates and there are none. I've checked MS
Windows Drivers Update site and it says I have the current driver.

Any ideas how to get XP to erase CD-RWs?

XP also has a problem correctly burning downloaded .iso images to CD. Last
time I tried burn an .iso image all it did was copy the .iso image to the
CD, as is, instead of laying it out on the disk so it was bootable, etc.

Thanks in advance!

John
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What version of Roxio Easy CD Creator are you using? XP is not compatible
before, I think it was version 5.3 and some people had to go to 6.0 to get
it to work.
 
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