XP stopped burning CD-R

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From: Dan Schonfeld (dan.schonfeld_at_artesia.com)
Date: 04/16/04


Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:52:55 -0700

I have a Sony CRX15E2 CD-R (and CD-RW) recorder. I've had
it for a couple of years. It worked fine, until about a
month ago, I can't burn a CD-R anymore. Using the built
in WINXP burning software, it says it is getting a write
error. Using Roxio, it says it is unable to complete the
writing of the data to the disc. I also noticed that
using the built-in WINXP burning software, every time I
get the error the IMAPI service dies. I can restart it,
but when I burn, it dies again.

I know it's not the drive, as I installed the drive in
someone else's XP machine, and it worked fine. And it's
not the discs, I've tried around 10 of them, from 2
spindles.

Recently, I bought an external USB 2.0 drive enclosure,
and tried it that way. Same problem!!! Furthermore, I
tried the USB device on a 3rd computer (a laptop). Same
problem!

So 2 machines don't work, one does. Both machines fail
with both WINXP burning and Roxio. Both machines show the
IMAPI service dying when it tries to burn.

What am I doing wrong? It used to work, not sure what
changed.

Thank you in advance for any advice you can offer.



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