Can read CDRW in 1 computer and not another?

amheck

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Hi gang,

I made a CDRW a few years back with all of my digital pics on it. It was made on Win98SE with a 4X HP CDRW drive.

Ever since my upgrade to XP I've been unable to read the disc. I had a Lite-on 48X CDRW and when trying to read the disc, it would make windows totally unable to see the drive. It would be removed from the device manager and explorer before my very eyes. I just upgraded now to a Sony DVD/RW 4X drive and pretty much the same thing. It will see the disc, I can see the folder for a sec, and the title of the disc in explorer, but the computer gets extremley slow and I can't see any of the files.

I tried an experiment tonite and I am able to see the disc perfectly in my work laptop - a year old IBM laptop model running Win2000Pro.

Basically, all I want is to be able to read the disk, get the files onto my personal PC on the HDD, and then eventually copy them to a new DVD or CD.

I think the problem came when I upgraded to WInXP. I seem to remember a lot of my discs made with Win98 were unreadable in XP.

Any ideas on a fix for this?


Thanks!
Aaron
 

amheck

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I downloaded the last bios for the drive when I got it last week. I've searched the net high and low for a driver for the SOny DRU-510A and can't find anything. What codec do I need? Any further )specific) help would be much appreciated. :)

Aaron
 

Zepper

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What software was the disk made with, Roxio, Nero, etc.? Is it packet written or burned just like a CD-R. If packet-written (used like a big diskette), you will need the same software (or a driver for it) that wrote it, either Direct CD (UDF driver) or InCD (INCDUDFreader ). Roxio has a driver for machines that don't have Roxio installed and so does Nero they are on the CDs that the software comes on. Perhaps you can DL them from the web sites. If you burned it just like a regular CD, then I haven't a clue.
. Oh, and BTW, packet writing is the least reliable form of optical storage there is - in case the situation wasn't bad enough already... I can't tell you how much grief I've read over PW on the various optical forums.
.bh.
 

amheck

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It was made with the HP DLA software, I'm guessing. Direct CD sounds about right, or maybe EZ CD Creator. And that makes sense. I remember the software I had wouldn't work with Win XP. I downloaded the hew software for XP from the HP site and all my previous disks after that wouldn't work.

Strange how the disk works on my work laptop with NO sort of any drivers/software on it, other than my work stuff.

THanks. I'll see if I can find some info on the driver file for Direct CD or EX CD Creator.

Aaron
 

amheck

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Zepper, very good info. I thought for sure you nailed it.

I found my old HP CDRW install CD somehow. It's Adaptec software. I see a 'Direct CD' folder on the install CD. I also see references to EZ CD Creator. I guess these are one and the same? Anyway, I can't seem to do anything with the software disk because I don't have the software nor the drive installed anymore.

I went to the Roxio site and found the UDF software and I thought this was exactly what i needed. But, I still get an I/O error when trying to read this CDRW disk (along with a lot of other CD-R disks that used to work). Maybe there's something functionally wrong with this new DVD burner? Again, the very very strange part is that this works on every other computer in the house. I tested on 2 laptops and my wife's computer. All just normal, run of the mill computers. And here I am with this "badass" P4 desktop with a DVD writer and 21" monitor, etc and I can't seem to read the disk. So frustrating.......

Aaron
 

amheck

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Bump up for any other ideas. I installed the HP DLA software that was used to write this disc, but still no go.

Can someone maybe give an explanation why this hi tech DVD drive can't read these discs, but all of the other computers in the house have no problems? Could I just go out and buy a normal, plain jane CD drive, to go along as the slave to the DVD recorder? Since the disc seems to be readable in other systems, maybe I just need a normal drive to be able to read this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm about to throw this Sony drive out the window.

Aaron
 

Abhi

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Do you have ethernet on your laptop and your new computer?

If yes, simply put the cd rw in the laptop, connect both the machines and copy your CDRW data to your computer....

Slow, yes. But it ll solve your problem