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I just bought a sony burner. I installed it, and it read cds fine. bu the computer does not recognise it as a burner. when i enter nero or cdrwin it says i have no cd recorder. can someone please help me with this?
thanx happy x-mas

I've always used Nero or Easy CD Creator for making music CDs or data CDs of back-up info (pictures, downloads, etc.). What do most people use InCD or DirectCD for and what are the advantages?

ok, heres the problem. i JUST (3 hrs ago) had my dad buy me a lighting IV. i been doing some reasearch on the burners and i thought that all cendyne lighting IV burners were based on lite-on. when i came home and went to this site, saw a forum that says that cendyne 48x burners are based on 4(?) different companies. i got the CW 4802, aka optorite (its odd on there website, they ...

Ever since I put 5.5.10.0 on my system, I haven't been able to burn any CD successfully :evil:

I'd like to switch back to the one right before the most current version; I've never had a problem with that one, but it's not on Aheads web site...

OK, here is the bad news.

My DRU500A has died after only one month ! :(

It has failed to read any CD or DVD media since yesterday !

Faults

I noticed during the last week that disc's got very hot in the drive, and that the drive was getting hotter than other drives I have here.

It soon started to play up with reading CD's and ...

If I update InCD to any version after 3.37, the new versions with the metalic UI, when I put in a CDRw to be formatted, that first dialog box that launches Nero/InCD so you can format, etc.. doesn't show the NEXT button so I can continue. Its a blank space!

I tried all 3 new version updates and the same thing!
I have ZA Pro installed, all current updates and patches.
IE 5.5sp1. WinME, clean ...

I know many of these are 48125W Lite-Ons, but the last one they had said CW-4802 on the box. Is this a Mitsumi? I seem to recall that model number. It actually mentioned Mt Ranier right on the box---rarity. Anyway, I'm sure someone out there in CDR guru land picked up one of these during these few days...before I open the box does anyone know the "CW" brand?

Thanks

I am trying to determine if this is somethign others have experienced.

I burned about 4 gigs of data last night onto a silver top DVDPro DVD-R, using my DRU-500A (firmware 1.0f) and Nero 5.5.9.17 ( I will upgrade to 5.5.10 today; haven't used nero in a while).

The disc takes FOREVER (if at all), to read back on the DRU-500A.
I end up ejecting the disc, so that explorer no longer sits in "Not ...

Hey
I thought that since I live close to Lamington Road in Bombay, which is pretty much the best place to buy computer hardware here, I would put up some prices of CDRW hardware and media.
Sony 40*12*48 (OEM Lite-On 40125S/W) is about 3700 rupees
Sony 48*12*48 (OEM Lite-On 48126S) is about 4300-4400 rupees.
This can be flashed with Sony 48*24*48 or newer Lite-On (48126S,48246S and 52246S) firmwares.

Asus CRW4012A is about 3900
Asus CRW4816A ...

I bought a 50 pack Philips 48x cdr disk (Made by CMC) a few weeks back in Compusa. and I have a lot problems with them. After burning the disk, CD Speed reports most of them have more than 3% damages, and I have problem reading a few of them. I tried them on a 16x Teac and a 24x lite-on cdr drive, and the result is similar. I also have some 40x Philips cdr ...