Hi, I have a Dell Dimension 2400 Series PC with a 48x DVD/CDRW Drive and Sonic Record Now Version 6 DVD/CD burning Software. I mainly need to burn photo images to CD and initially had few problems but now am totally unable to burn photos onto any new disks. I have tried a variety of makes and...

I just bought a Lite-On 166 DVD-Rom drive. The drive is in an XP home machine with a 2.5 Celeron and 384GB of memory. The drive reads all pressed discs fine but won't read any CD-Rs or DVD-Rs or DVD+Rs. It will either lock up or if I try ripping it will start racking up errors. DMA is...

have got a sony laptop with cdr/dvd combo. QSI CDRW/DVD SBW-241 xp pro running nero 6.3 nero lets me burn a disc, completing the whole process. but the disc will not read in any player. have burnt at 24x and dropped to 16x. have only tried with cheap 700mb discs so far. am unsure if this is a...

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Currently, I have a Samsung 348 combo drive. It plays and reads but I've noticed that the read speeds drop significantly sometimes. Recently, I was burning a CD in Roxio and the speed went from 48x to 1X. I don't have this problem when I use Nero, but sometimes when I'm copying a CD or reading...

I have a 52x Pacific Digital CD-RW and Roxio 5.3.2.4 doe snot seem to like it... anyone else have that problem? The only reason I stick with Roxioio is the SOUNDSTREAM and DIRECT CD... does any other software offer this?

I have a Panasonic DVD-RAM drive which I have had long before DVD+-RW drives ever hit the market. Now I also have DVD+-RW drive that I would like to format UDF with InCD. However, installing InCD 4.2 overrides the Panasonic UDF drivers, making my many DVD-RAM discs unreadable. Is there any way to...

hello there I've got a question... can anyone provide me some manuals how to hack a firmware in CD-ROM/RW drives or similar? I would like to modify (at least try to) my firmware of an TEAC CD-W58E burner... so, anyone would help to give me some info on hacking firmware? Please? Ty

Has anyone been able to get a CD burner running on an older, beige G3 with OS 8.1? If so, which burner, what software/driver? TIA.

Hello, All! After basically replacing the whole of a PC over a few months to fix a problem with writing any media, could a power supply be to blame for disks been written where the end of the data seems to be "fading" and cant be read? i hgave even upgraded to XP, tried a PCI IDE card to no...

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Hello Being clear that a CD-R has a pregroove spiral to control the optical pickup while burning I would like to know more in detail how the pickup knows where it is positioned at some moment on a blanck CD-R. For example how does the pickup know that it is located at track number 8467? a) Is it...

I'm using Roxio Easy CD Creator. I just downloaded the latest update/version. If I format a CD-RW for all music and decide later that I want to use it for all data, how can I reformat it to accept data files? Right now, the "Format" option is grayed-out so that I can't click on it. Thanks in...

I know that firmware controls cd drives. But then drivers control cd drives. My question is 'What is the difference between firware and drivers'? Thanks Andy --

I have a Liteon LTR-52327S CDR/RW and a Liteon SOHW-1673S DVD/RW. I use TDK 700mb 48x media (PartNo CD-R80CMEB). On the CD Burner it will burn this media at 52x, but on the DVD burner it will only burn them at 24x, even though the DVD burner is capable of 48x writing. Anyone have any idea why?

Working from a diffrent computer & can't locate the site that frequently gets posted here on how to D/L and connect the WMV, WMM and related files or remove same. Thanks JMC

I used this little program and copied 15 files of audio. I wanted to append them and did, but for some reason I can't get those files to burn on cd-r. I can't get it moved to my hd where I will be able to do the copy. This program does not give you that option. Is there someone here, that has this...

Can anyone tell me why both my CD Rom and CDRW are both running very slowly? They both take ages to start reading a disk and if I run a performance test they score really low Both drives are on the same bus but worked well previously, as I recently reformatted my hard drive I think the problem...

have heard toshiba 1712, liteon 166s, and sony ddu1621 some say the sony is a rebadged liteon? is this true......which one do you all recommend for ripping dvds and cds? thanks

how does Nero 5.9 work with these CDRs any ideas what to change to accept these TIA --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. As checked by MARK Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).