Newbie CDRW problem

[rmisner]

Recently installed a Plextor PX-320A CDRW/DVD combo on my XP Home machine. No problem installing the drive or Roxio CD Creator 5.0 (which does not support XP but I patched to 5.3 which does), however I'm not able to format CDRW media correctly. The disc fails to complete the format and I have to shut down CD creator (even left the format working overnight) Tried Memorex and Verbatium/high speed discs to no avail. I updated the Plextor firmware. Writer is sitting alone as master on secondary IDE. DMA is enabled as available in XP. I have not run the Plextor self-diagnostics, but DVD and CD functions seem to work correctly. Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[Arrow]

Have you tried using Nero Burning ROM?

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[lakedude]

Doesn't xp have native support for cdr/rw without add on burner software? Perhaps there is a conflict. When you say format, do you mean erase? Can you downgrade to 98se or try the burner on another machine?

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[rmisner]

I've read good things about Nero; its at the top of the list..Thanks for the help

 

[rmisner]

Yes roxio and microsoft provided built in support on XP and if I can't solve this problem I will probably uninstall CD Creator and give XP's default software a whirl. I'm referring to the "Direct CD" format option in CD Creator that allows you to drag and drop data files to the CD...Thanks for the help

 

[lagger]

you must format a cdrw before you can use it in directcd ( which is notoriously buggy) Nero has a similar program called InCd that also does packet writing ( drag and drop)

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[btvillarin]

The reason why most everybody would go against the built-in CD writing "utility" in Windows XP is because when you write files to the CD, they first get written to the hard drive/partition that you have chosen (your Windows XP drive/partition by default). <i>Then</i>, they get written to the CD. Although this might help avoid a buffer underrun, this takes longer to write CDs.

I hope this explanation help ya out.
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