I have a Yamaha CD-R/RW burner..CRW 2200E.
Since changing from W98SE to XP SP2 this drive fails to recognize a CD-RW.
I can write to a CD-R but not CD-RW,I just get a insert disc message.
I have updated the firmware from the Yamaha website,I have also uninstalled Nero V5.5 which came with the drive and am now using a trial version of V7.
With W98SE I could format a RW disc using inCD and use it as a floppy but now I can't even format a new disc.
Any sugestions?
Dave

Come on you experts please answer, as I have a similar problem.I suspect it has some thing to do with jumpers (not wooly christmas prezzies!).

not sure what the problem is
its not the jumpers cos that would make it not work at all
and itd only change the jumper settings if you manaually change em yourself

incd URGH *runs away* nasty nasty

FFS more problems relating to XP and SP2! :rant:

SP2 has compatibility issues with a LOT of software IMO, my IT Graduate brother swears by it, I just swear AT the fuffing thing :rant:

Anyone please, I'm getting severely p..off with this problem

From memory I don't think XP/2000 supports packet writing (which is what InCD does) on CD's, its not the drive. I am not sure why, it just doesn't.......

try
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

see if that one burns a cdrw disc

then we know its not your hardware

Originally posted by melthebell
try
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

see if that one burns a cdrw disc

then we know its not your hardware

Thanks for the link Mel.
I tried it and it failed to recognize that a brand new Memorex CD-RW disc was in the writer.
It did write successfully to a CD-R DISC.
I have checked the following:
RUN regedit
current user/software/microsoft/windows/current version/explorer/CDburning/drives
There are two.
volume, drive type, value data =3
volume, drive type, value data=2.
If I go into :
my computer/removable storage.
the drives are labeled
DVD drive E ........thats my reader
CD-RWdrive F........thats the writer
Right click on the F drive icon and there is a recording tab but not with the E-drive
Does this make any sense?
Is it the hardware u/s?
Should I formatted the disc?????????????

Dave

if its writing to cdrs and not cdrws then im afraid it might be best to invest in a new one

cdrw techology is quite fickle and easy for drives to not be able to handle em

seen as its happened in 2 burning programs then i think its the hardware tbh, if youve updated the firmware then as long as that worked correctly you cant upgrade any further.

no idea what else it could be tbh


you could try going into system/device manager/properties for the drive and changing the settings there
select dma, or deselect it

strange how it worked on 98 but not on xp hmmmmmm

I had a similar prob, I have CD-RW's full of music and photos all in PacketCD UDF format... which XP-bloody-stupid-SP2 won't recognise :roll:

I do have a solution; it's far from elegant, but it works... I added a new partition on my hard disk using Partition Magic (4Gb on a 200Gb HDD) and installed Win98SE to it. If I ever need any data from a UDF CD, I simply boot into '98, copy the files to the hard disk, reboot into XP and access the files from the HDD. :)

Thanks for both of your replies.
I shall for moment stick with this drive as money is a bit tight.
However, when the time come is possible/ worth getting a drive which can write to DVD and CD-R / CD-RW.
I rather like the program Mel, how did you find it?
Fortunately there's not a lot of important stuff on the few CD-RWs I used with W98.
I don't think I'll go down the dual boot route.
Dave