Need suggestion for CD-RW media to replace OEM/HP-C4438A.

[Quick1]

I have a dinosaur of a burner, an HP9100i(4x8x32). In the past I rarely used it, but now that's not the case since I FINALLY bought a digital camera. I'm having trouble saving large numbers (300-500meg) of jpeg's to CD-RW's without reading corrupted files at a later date. I don't seem to have this problem when burning to the OEM/HP-C4438A's media that came with it. Obviously, I'm having trouble finding the(C4438A - 1x2x4x) HP media. I've tried the following CD-RW media with no success; Imation, Fuji Film & Memorex. Any suggestions for a replacement media(1x2x4x) comparable in quality to the HP CD-RW's? Also, the newer, faster CD-RW media would still be backwards compatible, right?

 

[Mday]

instead of trying to find the media, why dont you get a new drive? i mean, how much have you spent on media already? when $50 can get you a good burner (lite-on from newegg).

 

[Quick1]

Mday: Valid point, but I can't do it right now with the ton of money I just spent on my new digital camera(Canon G3).

 

[Insidious]

I just replaced my burner which was an HP9110i

The only reason I mention it is that it had no difficulty with any media I purchased, whether it was 'cheaped out' or 'The good stuff'.
Because of this, I suspect your difficulties are not due to media selection.

If it helps, I was using Easy CD Creator (V5 Platinum)


suggestions:

Go to your device manager and see if it is showing the drive with no warnings
Try turning on/off DMA (opposite of what you are presently selecting)
Tell us what OS and burning software you are trying to use so we may offer you alternatives

*$40.00 hard to justify when you just spent $100s on a camera?.... I don't get it*

afterthought:

go to device manager and uninstall the drive.
turn off the computer
unplug the drive
boot without it
turn off the computer
plug in the drive
boot with it and install

--if that doesn't help--

repeat the above procedure with only the CDRW on that particular ribbon... (check that jumper is to Master)

 

[Quick1]

Insidious: Thanks for the feeback! I am using Roxio Easy CD Creator. Not sure of version number, I'm at work but I'll check tonight.

I'm running Win98SE
I know for a fact there are no drive warnings in Device Mgr
I will try changing the DMA setting. I think it's currently "checked".

F.Y.I....I know my C drive is alone on IDE-1 channel. My CD-ROM is the master on IDE-2 and the HP is the slave on IDE2. My back-up HD is alone on IDE-3.

If all else fails I will try uninstalling and disconnecting the drive.

 

[Insidious]

That sounds very similar to how I was set up when I used that drive.

I had the CDROM on IDE1 master, CDRW on IDE2 master, main HD on IDE3 master and backkup HD on IDE4 master.

If I remember correctly, I had my two (Western Digital) HDs jumpered to CS (Highpoint controller on board for IDE3/4)
and the Optical Drives (CDROM and CDRW) jumpered to master.

I do remember that I had DMA enabled.

-Sid

PS: you can also try using the device manager to uninstall the IDE controller. It will be re-detected and re-install on your next boot.

All these uninstalls and re-installs are only to help if a driver got ferked up somehow as can happen in Win98se. Basically, I always just
tried to make the OS think things were new and hoped the problem might "solve itself" with a do-over
All's fair when troubleshooing stuff like this. eg: swap which IDE controller does each optical drive, try putting them on a single controller
with master/slave reversed, etc. Sometimes just disconnecting the ribbons and reseating them can make a difference. If it does, replace the cable)

edit:
In days long gone by, there was a point in time where VIA chipsets had a difficult time with large file transfers when a soundblaster soundcard was used.
To solve this, I think only a motherboard flash to the latest BIOS is needed.
(It's easy even if you don't know how.... just post in here asking and you
will get more help than you can imagine )