Help Installing Creative CDRW 8-4-32

[I1100110]

I am installing a creative cdrw into a w2k machine and it is only being detected as a regular cdrom. It picks up the correct name and installs drivers but wont recognize it as a burner. I have tried master and slave on both my ide channels and it has not helped. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Wallysaurus]

What do you mean "it won't recognize it as a burner"? Did you install the Nero software and it is not recognizing the burner or are you saying that in Win2k it is shown as a CD ROM?

 

[I1100110]

both windows and my burning software read it as a regular cdrom, although when windows refers to it by name it calls it a cdrw.

 

[Hubris]

Did you install the drivers from the floppy that came with the burner? That solved my problems in W2K back in the day.

 

[ghostman]

It's the burning software that recognizes drives as CDRW. Windows always treats CDRW drives as regular CDROMs. Upgrade Nero or EZ CD if you can. Check http://www.winchan.net/aspi/ to see if that's the cause (though it never solved my CDRW problems in the past).

 

[Killrose]

Check Creative's website, they may have a software patch/driver to fix this.