I'm looking for something akin to Taiyo Uden CDR media: great reliability (first consideration) and reasonable price. Is there an analog in DVD-R media? Thanks for any suggestions. -- David Arnstein

Hello NG, could you please point me to some resources, where i can learn, how to access the CD-drive for burning data via Windows XP on it (C, C++, or C#). The device should be an ATA drive. No SCSI. Thanks for any help, Peter

I've discovered a new one. Whenever I eject or dismount a drive with removable media, that drive letter disappears from my directory software, including windows explorer. According to diskmanagement, the drive is still there and functional. Rebooting restores the drive letters (until the next...

Not an expert on this . . .but something to create a .m3u playlist for winamp if possible ? thanks

X-No-Archive: Yes Say I have a 100MB file and a 600MB file to burn onto a CD, but I'd like to place the 100MB file on the outer perimeter of the disc to increase transfer speed. Is there anyway I can specify burn order with Nero without doing things like chagning file name?

.. -------------------------------------- Mike Richter, were you born with "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face? -------------------------------------- (Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?) tcm wrote: my writer/reader is being accessed every minute or so without any

I've lately been having about a 25% success rate burning data CDs--more often than not, although the CD burning process says it completes successfully, I immediately get read errors on the disc. I'm using Nero 5.5, which came bundled with my MSI X48 CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. I use Nero's "Verify...

I just got a spindle of Maxell 4x DVD+R disks from PC Connection. A spindle of 25 disks for $29.95. They're not TY (ideal?), but they are made in Japan, Ricoh. They are supposed to write at 8x on my Plextor 708 - according to Plextor, anyway. They ID as: Unique Disc Identifier :

Every time I inset a CD into either of my CD-ROMs (the Teac just burns CDs, the LiteOn also burns DVDs), I get the message shown in the subject. I merely click on OK or X it out to continue. It doesn't matter if the CD is a commercial one, one I burned, or even a blank. However, if I open the...

A week ago my local 'CompUSA' has some DVD+R discs on sale. The packaging stated that they will only work in a '4X' burner. Are DVD+ media not backwards compatible like CDR media? --David

Is it possible to copy a audio CD, and from that copy make mp3's from MusicMatch or another software but will be able to query the Freedb database? Every time I make a backup of my audio CD's and try to make mp3's from the backup, it says it can't query Freedb correctly. Is there a serial number...

I am burning (or Trying to burn) MP3's to CD but keep getting the Joliet error for file names. Is this just because of the length? Do illegal characters do this too.....like ? or \, etc. It does seem like one can get around it all by zipping everything then burning the zip but then they're not...

Hi: I tried to use a cdrw drive inside an ide2fw case, and it didn't work, so I'm asking what might be wrong. Here are the details: I have a IDE to Firewire (IEEE1394) case called Speedzter 5. I bought it 1 year ago, and it has been working fine ever since. I've used it with 3 different hard...

Ive seen some bash the Khypers DVD-Rs . Some said the DVD+Rs were at bit better. Anyway these are selling at many OMaxes for $4.99 after rebates. They seem to work OK with my NEC 1300a. I get up to 4x max option with my burner. With the Compusa 1x media silver tops - I get a 2x max option. I still...

I have 2 kids, and of course each wants to play the same game (on different PCs) and the same time, so I got VirtualCD v5. However when creating Virtual CD's from BBC CD's (such as tweenies) it fails to run the game (others work); I have followed the vendors instructions requesting the software...

I just got this DVD writer and it works fine burning all media with Roxio EMC v.7, -Classic Creator, but I cannot get it to work with Drag and Drop (DirectCD). It will not recognise CDR, CDRW or DVDRW as writeable media, therefore it will not format, write nor erase the disc. I'm using Windows...

Bear with me, I've just joined the group, and this might have come up already. A search for my question did turn up many hits, but none (until I gave up) on copying only selected tracks. The many hits were on how to copy ALL the music from a CD that had both music and "extras." But all I want to...

I have been using WinISO but I have run into an apparent bug with regards to shortcut files -- it tries to read the destination file rather than the shortcut itself, and then spits out an error if the destination happens to be an invalid filename -- for example, a web URL. So I was wondering if...

I have an MSI K7266 Pro Motherboard (also called the MS-6380 ATX Mainboard) with an AMD Athlon Processor and an AMI BIOS (Version 1.9). I installed a SONY DRU-510A Internal DVD ROM Read/Write drive. I carefully checked the jumper settings and all, but the computer denies that it is a CD drive. ...

Received the above writer for Christmas Would like to purchase media for same Memorex DVD+R & DVD-R media are on sale at the local Best Buy Does anybody have any experience with this media and writer - If positive which one , the + or - should I purchase.