So how DO you get CD-RW working under XP?

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Martin Hunt

I upgraded from Win98 to XP 2 weeks ago, and have not been able to get
my CD-RW working properly since. It is a Cyberdrive CW038D.

For a start, XP only saw it as a CD-ROM. I followed the instructions
in Knowledge Base Article 316529 to change the registry settings, and
it at least shows as a CD-RW now. But, even with that, I have never
seen the extra option for being able to erase a CD-RW from Windows XP
(I think it is supposed to be in the CD properties).

Even after reinstalling IN-CD (admittedly it is a fairly old version,
2.26.0) I have not been able to get the CD-RW working properly, or
consistently. At the moment, the options for formatting a disc don't
even come up - all I can look at is the INCD version information.
Yesterday, I was able to format the disk, but I couldn't write
anything to it - it displays one file on the disk called
"Non-Allocatable List" with size 0, but shows the disc as being full.
Its behaviour seems to vary from one disc to the next. I have another
disc, which I managed to write files to, but I can't delete or add
anything else to, now.

This device was not mentioned in the pre-upgrade compatibility report,
so it should just work. I have wasted far too much time on this. An
upgrade on a home PC should be much easier than that. Most of the
problems mentioned in the compatibility report were resolved quite
easily by loading new drivers.
 
For a start, XP only saw it as a CD-ROM. I followed the instructions
in Knowledge Base Article 316529 to change the registry settings, and
it at least shows as a CD-RW now. But, even with that, I have never
seen the extra option for being able to erase a CD-RW from Windows XP
(I think it is supposed to be in the CD properties).
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Well, it sort of works again. I found that something (probably one of
the Windows Updates) had changed the registry setting, so that it was
a CD-ROM again.

When I say "sort of working", I mean it seems to depend on which disk
I put in first. If I put in a disk that I have previously written to,
it generally works ok. But if I put in a disk which hasn't been
written to, I don't even get the option to reformat it under INcd,
unless I insert the "good" disk first. Very strange, and I haven't
quite worked out which disks are likely to be good, and which bad, as
yet.

I probably need to get the latest version of Nero and InCD, but I want
to know that it will all work before paying the money. The newer
version of InCD doesn't seem to come with the demo version of Nero.
 
I upgraded from Win98 to XP 2 weeks ago, and have not been able to get
my CD-RW working properly since. It is a Cyberdrive CW038D.
Click to expand...
Even after reinstalling IN-CD (admittedly it is a fairly old version,
2.26.0) I have not been able to get the CD-RW working properly, or
consistently. At the moment, the options for formatting a disc don't
even come up - all I can look at is the INCD version information.
Yesterday, I was able to format the disk, but I couldn't write
anything to it - it displays one file on the disk called
"Non-Allocatable List" with size 0, but shows the disc as being full.
Its behaviour seems to vary from one disc to the next. I have another
disc, which I managed to write files to, but I can't delete or add
anything else to, now.
Click to expand...

Well, it still doesn't work. Yesterday, I was able to format a disc,
but couldn't write to it. After rebooting I can't even format.
Any help or hints would be appreciated.
 
1) Try disabling XP's own burning software - sometimes it will conflict with
3rd party (particularly old) burning SW.

2) Get a half way up-to-date version of Nero/InCD!

FWIW,
Len
 
Ah it isnt free CD Creator Martin,
unless you plan on downloading
it and paying for it at www.roxio.com

CD Creator 6 (well the platinum version)
includes, directcd, label creator, photosuite
5, dvd builder, roxio player, sound/tag
editor, Drag to disc, creator classic
disc copier, media explorer, audio central!

There's a lot of programs that come with
this.

Yup, I think INCD can be downloaded
as a separate download from the Nero site.
(I've never used INCD only DirectCD).

But I do use Nero 6, for other things.

Trust me, I dont know why MS put
CD burning as part of XP. It wont even
let you format a CD properly lol let
alone copy files to the CD ( If people
dont know, how to write files to the CD)!
 
Ah it isnt free CD Creator Martin,
unless you plan on downloading
it and paying for it at www.roxio.com
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I noticed $US80 at that web site. An upgrade to Nero is much cheaper
(around $US30).
Yup, I think INCD can be downloaded
as a separate download from the Nero site.
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I haven't found out how to yet. I have emailed Nero asking how to do
this, and await their reply.
Trust me, I dont know why MS put
CD burning as part of XP. It wont even
let you format a CD properly lol let
alone copy files to the CD ( If people
dont know, how to write files to the CD)!
Click to expand...

Well, as I've said, it won't let me do any of those things - it
doesn't even try to run.
 
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