Author: gerold daniels
Date: 18:01:12 04/25/05
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On April 25, 2005 at 17:46:31, Peter Skinner wrote: >On April 25, 2005 at 13:03:25, gerold daniels wrote: > >>i have xp home with cd burner that came with it. it worked for about a year and >>i used it very little. now when i try to burn a cd with pictures it does not >>work. have try diff.cd and it won,t work with any of them keep gettting the >>message that the cd are bad. is there a way to check to see if its the cd burner >>software or if it is the cd-drive(d) that is bad. is there any simple >>cd software that can be downloaded to try and check to see if it is the >>software. i did download one file yesterday and it worked. but today tryed it >>again and it didn,t work. would apprecated any help on this. tryed msn and got >>the run around there. no help from them. >>thanks in advance. >> >>gerold. > >Have you tried any of this? > >1. Is the drive in Ultra DMA Mode 2? To check goto the Device Manager, look at >the Secondary IDE Driver, goto Advanced Settings, and see if the drive is >enabled under that. > tryed all that peter . still don,t work. i haven,t tryed another cd burner. the one i got on here is cd writer wizard from roxio inc. they want 69 bucks for update version. is there a better one i can download and try. i still don,t know if its the software or the cd drive that is bad. when i put cd in it still plays the content of my loaded cd,s. thanks for your help. gerold. >2. Are you using the Adapter free ASPI drivers? If not get them here: >http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverdetail.jsp?cat=/Product/ASPI-4.70&filekey=aspi_471a2.exe&sess=no > >3. Have you updated whatever burning program that you are using? Tried another >one? > >4. Used a registry cleaner to make sure there is no corrupt registry setting >that is finding back media when it is good? I have had this problem before. Try >this one: http://www.kikrinc.com/regcleaner.exe It is freeware, and is the exact >one I use. (In fact I just uploaded it for you :)) > >If that doesn't work let me know. I have about 5 gazillion fixes for cd-burners >when they do bad, or the Windows driver does. > >Peter
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