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CD Writter Stopped Recognizing..
Name: Chris Date: October 6, 2002 at 15:52:37 Pacific OS: Win XP - SP1 CPU/Ram: 1.8 P4 - 512 megs
Comment:
I have a creative CDRW drive that has worked perfect for months. Now, it will not recognize blank cd's. When I insert a blank cd into the drive, the read light will flicker for roughly 2 minutes. Once the light stops, nothing will read the cd as being blank..Nero says to insert a blank cd. I've tried Nero, Fireburner, and the native xp software and nothing works anymore. Any ideas?
Name: John Date: October 6, 2002 at 18:40:52 Pacific
Reply:
Try the newer version of nero to see if it help. If all the software recognize your drive and then its not the sofware but your cdrw drive may have some cliches.
Go to creative site and download a newer firmware if they have one.
Else fail, time to call creative or replace a new one.
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Response Number 2
Name: shawn Date: October 6, 2002 at 20:19:10 Pacific
Reply:
chris, that happened to me to. i have a yamaha cd-rw drive and it worked fine up until last week. i do not know what the hell's wrong with it. but when you figure out, can you let me know? thanks a lot.
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Response Number 3
Name: Chris Date: October 6, 2002 at 21:41:59 Pacific
Reply:
Shawn, did you by any chance install SP1 for XP just before your problems started?
Now that I think about it, my problem started shortly after I installed the service pack.
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Response Number 4
Name: Chris Date: October 7, 2002 at 16:02:03 Pacific
Reply:
Reinstalled XP, still not working, so it's not SP1 that screwed it up.
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