Re: CD drive errors on write

I'm having this same problem with the same error message and so far none of
the solutions posted have seemed to work - are there any 3rd party softwares
that are available free of charge and would you happen to know any of the
links? thanks for your help

"Stan Brown" wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:36:53 -0500 in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, Mike Ditka favored us with...
> > Thanks again for some ideas. This time they led to a solution.
> >
> > The Microsoft page advised me to do a search for the message, but then
> > couldn't find the message. However, in poking around at that Microsoft
> > site, one of the articles reminded me that there is a "record" tab on the
> > disk properties dialog. I lowered the speed from "highest possible" to
> > 8X -- and then remembered, that's what I've been using on Linux. Apparently
> > this CD drive can no longer perform at the highest speed it thinks it has.
> >
> > After I lowered the speed, it wrote the CD without any difficulty.
>
> Windows XP's native CD burning is from Roxio, and I've had nothing
> but trouble with Roxio software since Easy CD Creator 3. In
> particular, I've had the same trouble you described -- XP can't write
> to a disk, with no indication why. You're lucky to have found a
> workaround, but my own solution was to use third-party non-Roxio
> software, which does the job just fine.
>
> --
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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