Re: CD-R/W no longer recognizes blank CDs in Windows XP

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clivsey3_at_comcast.net
Date: 02/16/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:04:32 -0800

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>Disregard if not relevant to your situation.
>>
>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q324129
>>HOW TO: Troubleshoot Issues That Occur When You Write Data
>to a CD-R or CD-RW
>>Optical Disc in Windows XP
>>
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>>"ctlmd" <clivsey3@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>news:1032a01c3f31b$ee47b810$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Since re-installing Windows XP in a dual boot system, it no
>>> longer recognizes blank CDs in the CD-R/W drive, but the
>>> same drive works fine in Linux. It reads fine in Windows.
>>> I've tried re-installing Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.1 Basic
>>> and if I remember right, I re-installed the whole OS once.
>>> I don't know if I have a corrupted driver or what? When I
>>> insert a blank CD, there is a brief icon of a CD and then
>>> nothing. Then, when I click on the drive, it says 'please
>>> insert a disk in Drive D'. At one point, it was telling me
>>> it was the wrong type of disk for the drive, but this was
>>> also false, as I had used that same disk type many times
>>> before.
>>
>>.
>>Thanks for the suggestion. It was a good idea, but didn't
>work. The registry was already correct and should be in
>the read/write mode. I don't know what is going on.
>.
>Well, it turned out to be the burning software, Easy CD
Creator, and when I installed Nero CD Burner instead it
worked fine. I decided to try it when Linux told me that
there was either no or built-in driver for the CD R/W. So,
since it was working fine in Linux I knew the only
difference remaining was the burning software.

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