Writing to CDRW with New DVD RW Drive

Wallygator · Post by **Wallygator** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:29 pm

Hello, I have a CDRW I have been using for several years. I recently installed a DVD burner. I cannot write to my old CDRW disk with it. I have installed Easy CD/DVD Creator 6. Any suggestions? Do I have to burn it to a DVDRW ??? Thanks in advance for the help. Wallygator.

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:37 pm

May need to format the rw first. Different apps - and even diff versions of the same app - may use different implementations of the UDF.

You should be able to use cdr/rw in the drive, but thaty depends on the specific dvd drive.

kalbster · Post by **kalbster** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:46 pm

First try to get rid of Roxio. I've had a lot of problems that ended when I got rid of the EZ CD 6. I didn't have the problems with 5.

You could try the downloads from thier site but they didn't help me.

I'm not sure that is the problem but it's a start.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:40 pm

Originally posted by kalbster
First try to get rid of Roxio. I've had a lot of problems that ended when I got rid of the EZ CD 6. I didn't have the problems with 5.

You could try the downloads from thier site but they didn't help me.

I'm not sure that is the problem but it's a start.

I got fed up with Roxio as well. Or was it Adaptec at the time, can't remember.

Get Nero, copy the files off the CDRW to HD, then quick erase the CDRW, and copy files from HD back to CDRW. With Nero, I've never had to "format" a CDRW. Just use quick erase.

kalbster · Post by **kalbster** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:09 pm

Nero rocks!

I was going to change over to Nero, the last time I upgraded, but then I saw an article in Max PC that showed that Roxio 6 was actually faster (a 1st) so I just upgraded. What a big mistake.

I've never seen one so slow as Roxio drag-to-disk (45min to format a stinking disk.