Re: xp cd burner

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Larry,

You can certainly have have two CD-R/RW drives and no cd-rom.

Why not get a DVD recorder drive? Then you can burn DVDs, which hold more stuff than CDs. A DVD recorder drive can also Read or Write/Record/Burn CDs as well as DVDs. DVD recorder drives cost about the same as CD burners.

No matter what you do, you can only Write/Record/Burn CDs or DVDs on one drive at a time.

You cannot use Windows XP's Built-In CD Burner to burn DVDs. You would also need a newer version of Nero software to burn DVDs.

If you were to buy the right DVD recorder drive it would probably include DVD burner software.

Just something to think about. ;-)

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larry jordan <lcj84tbird@xxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Mr Vogel

Hope you can put up with me a little longer ,
I want to take out my cd-rom and replace it with a cd-r/rw then i would
have two cd-r/rw's and no cd-rom.
thanks n
much
larry


"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Larry,

Nero works better with Windows XP's Built-In CD Burner disabled.

If you want to enable Windows XP's Built-In CD Burner and use it instead
of Nero you can.

Whatever you want to do, it's up to you. You can enable or disable it as
often as you like. The trick is to remember where and how to do it.

Nero should find whatever drive that is recognized as a recordable
device, a drive that can Write/Record/Burn CDs.

You can not Write/Record/Burn CDs with a CD-ROM drive, a CD-ROM drive is
Read Only. A CD-ROM drive can only Play/Read CDs. A CD-R/RW drive will
Read or Write/Record/Burn CDs. CD-R/RW stands for Recordable/ReWritable.

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larry <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Mr Vogel

Thanks very much for your reply , i am going to wait until mourning to
disable xp burner. i went to the support site that you sent me and this
dumb old man can understand about half of what it says.

I got a cd-rom and a dvd/cd-rw drive in my computer now , well my
cd-rom
drive is going bad and i have a sony cd-r/rw that i was going to use as
a cd-rom that would make me have two cd-rw's. Will this be a problem?
thanks again
larry

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"Wesley Vogel" wrote:

Nero does NOT need Windows XP's Built-In CD Burner. If you want to use
Nero, uncheck Enable Recording on this Drive for your drive.

From a NERO readme...

[[Go to your Windows Explorer or My Computer and right click on your
Recorders drive letter, and then go to the "Recorder" Tab and in that
window disable the option for "Enable Recording on this Drive".]]

If you want to use Windows XP's Built-In CD Burner at a later time, you
have to check Enable Recording on this Drive for your drive.

Enable XP's recording wizard

Open My Computer, right click the CD Drive icon and then click
Properties. Click the Recording tab.
Check: Enable CD recording on this drive
Click: Apply
Click: OK

Enable CD recording on this drive
This setting turns on the built-in CD recording features included with
Windows XP.
Third-party CD/DVD burning programs sometimes disable this setting.
You can only enable CD recording for one device at a time.

Only One CD-R or CD-RW Disk Drive Can Be Used to Create Compact Discs
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294652

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larry jordan <lcj84tbird@xxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Hello

Below is instructions i got to turn off my built-in CD Burner , if i
do this will it have any effect whatsoever on my Nero 5 burner that i
have installed?
Thanks Much
larry


Turning Off the Built-In CD Burner

Added 1/15/02

If you want to turn off the ability to using the built-in CD burner
software that comes with WindowsXP:

Open up the Explorer
Right click on the drive that is your CD burner
Select Properties
Click on the Recording tab
Uncheck Enable CD recording on this drive

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