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My CDROM drive cannot read CD-R & CD-RW discs. The speed of my CDROM is 8X ( manufacturer: CREATIVE). I am using Windows NT 4.0 as an operating system. I am wondering if you can help me solve this problem.
Is these CDR's/CDRW's written with some packet-writing software, like Direct-CD?? If yes, you could try a software from Adaptec's website, which will read packet-written CD's with normal drives. (can't remember what was the name of the software...) However, I think the reason for your problem, is, that your CD-drive just won't accept CDR/CDRW's. Especially those older drives have problems. I had a 4x Creative drive, which had similar problems with CDR's. I never even tried with CDRW's, because I already knew the result... :-)
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Response Number 2
Name: jivesh Date: May 4, 2000 at 19:40:11 Pacific
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This may sound unreasonable but try to burn the CD at single speed. It did the trick for me.
It's one of two things... Either your CDRom is not Multi-Read compliant, or you merely need UDF Reader from Adaptec. Being as how you have an 8X cdrom, I'm going to assume it lacks Multi-Read compliancy.
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