Hi, I am interested in purchasing an external DVD-writer for my Dell Inspiron 8200 with Firewire interface. One that struck me was the Sony DRX-530UL, which is external multiformat 8x drive. It's around $140 USD plus S&H. I am a fan of Plextor, but their external drive costs about $240....

Howdy, I am looking for a well layed out template labeling music CDs I am burning. I want to use the same format for all the CDs. I am making discs with my favorite songs from a particular group. I am looking for some examples of labels (disk only, not covers) that others have made. I am not much...

My DW-U18 DVD RW drive just dropped dead (won't read, but system recognizes the drive) in my home system after working fine for about a month. When I plug it into my work machine it works fine. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling through Device Manager. The device uninstalled, the system...

I have a 48X CDR that came with my new Dell here at work. When I rebuild it, after various betas, I've had random times when nero sees it as a 48X drive and burns at that speed just fine, and other installs where it sees it as a 4X drive and burns slower than molasses. I'm working off the same...

Nero 6 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884130 Ain't Microslop grand? Brendan --

I recieved a cdr of an album, burnt from mp3 files. The cdr has gaps between the cuts. Some of the songs fade continuously from one to another, some dont. I'm trying to reburn the album in disc at once mode using Easy cd by Roxio, trying both version 4 and 5. Ive tried using every combination...

Hi, I'm very interested in buying external cdrw drive with cf, mmc... reader.... this drive is capable of copying whole card onto cdr without using computer... this is really brilliant :) but I cant find much models in the internet... Does anyone know such models? Help! :) Regards SpydeRR

I know that for CD writers, 12X would mean 1.8 MB/sec, since 12 X 150 KB/sec = 1.8 MB/sec. Does 12X mean the same thing for DVD writers? Or do you have to multiply 12 by something besides 150KB/sec?

I'm not making this up! Read it at http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5916377 . Roxio is changing its company name to Napster. The CD and DVD burning software is sold to Sonic Solutions. This is weird. The Napster business lost $8.1 million last year, while the Roxio...

Dear all, I have a Laptop (Sony Vaio PCG-FRV26) with a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive (QSI SBW-241). I am trying to read a DVD-RAM disc (Panasonic 120min/4.7GB, 2-3x speed) with it. I know that in general DVD-ROM drives cannot read DVD-RAM discs, but I have read that some modern drives are able to after a...

I need to write both standard CD's and UDF. I would like to just use UDF but find it not 100% reliable, this disk contains error is typical, and all is lost. I am using the corporate choice Easy CD creator but its rejecting my writes on grounds of path length, takes an afternoon just to suss which...

I am a poor person with a old machine curious as to whether I can replace my CD-ROM with a CD writer. I can download CD burning software for Win 95 but was wondering what is advisable in the matter of processor speed and memory capacity. I have a AMD K6 233 Mhz & 49 Meg memory. The CPU speed is...

We have a relatively new PC (lots of memory, ram, Windows 98SE) with a standard cd-reader, an external USB hard disc, and a very barely used internal 48x Pacific Digital cdrw, which Device Manager says is working properly. It is set for DMA. Here's the problem. Every time we want to burn a disc...

I have a number of audio CDs that were recorded in a standalone audio CD recorder, and were never finalized. I can read the CDs with my CD recorder on the computer, and I can extract to a .wav file using IsoBuster, but I would like to learn how to finalize the CDs using Nero 6. I can find no...

I am trying to make a backup copy of my Pac-Man World 2 game (it is a PC game made by Hip Games). I used Nero 5.58 with my TDK (Plextor) 12x10x32x CD-writer. I told Nero to "write uncorrected" any errors it encountered when doing a "CD Copy". It made the copy, and then I ran a binary-compare...

I recently purchased a Lite-On LDW-851S DVD burner with Nero 5.5 bundled. When Nero starts, it will not recognize the burner; checking Ahead's website, a later dot revision specifically lists this burner. So I download the current update (from 5.5.10.25, I think) to the last (5.5.x.56) version. Now...

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I've started having a problem with my NEC NR-7700A CD-RW drive on my 2+ year old Gateway machine. If I do a power up (cold reboot), the activity LED on the drive blinks constantly, the BIOS (American Megatrends) doesn't recognize the drive properly, and consequently, Windows XP (or Linux) won't...

Hi group. Hope this is the right place to ask this question. I have a lot of old VHS tapes that I would like to transfer over to DVDs, if possible? Does any one here know what is needed, how to set this up and---, or know of any sites were we can get this info. Any help and feed back will be...

Hi Had my cousin on the phone this evening describing an odd problem... She has a Plextor CD-RW drive and a Pioneer A07 DVD writer. She put a data CD (which was written on another PC) into the DVD drive and its reads fine. Putting the same CD into the Plextor CDRW Drive and found that it only