Background: I bought my first CD burner 5 years ago or so. I have used EasyCD, WinOnCD, NTI (briefly), and Nero. I have also used others for specific tasks, but no other software is installed on this system.
Situation: I recently did a full fresh install of XP with my old TDK 24x CD-RW drive, including nero 5.5.5.6, and it worked fine (as far as I knew, since I had only burned Audio CD's, no other types). I sold the 24x, so I bought a 40x TDK to replace it. After installing the new drive right into the old slot and powering up, I found the new drive incompatible with my existing software version, so I uninstalled Nero, and reinstalled using the supplied CD. The first problem was that the new drive could not be recognized by Nero. I solved this by also installing the TDK Mixmaster software included on the CD, which appears to be a pleasantly dumbed down audio CD program. Once installed, the Nero program worked well on audio CD's, but whenever I tried to make an iso (data) CD, it would eject the blank CD, saying it was not empty. Re-checking the blank CD with the 'Medium-Info' button confirms the CD is actually blank, but the system failed to recognize it as such at the time of recording. Upgrading to 5.5.8.2 changed the problem to something about not being able to burn a multisession CD in DAO mode, (although I was not trying to burn a multisession CD in the first place.) So I changed to Track-at-Once, and Nero finally burned a data CD Successfully! Or so I thought, until I tried to read the CD in another CD. It was unreadable, and not blank. Reinserting it into the CD-RW drive in the original PC to test, I found it unreadable in the original system as well. Checking the medium info on the disc reveals an iso partition on the cd, but in raw mode, not CDFS, or anything usable. I retested making an audio CD. Works fine. Tried uninstalling, rebooting, regcleaning, reinstalling nero, and trying again, to no avail.
Configuration: ASPI version is correct, wnaspi32.dll is copied into nero, windows, system, and system32 directories to be absolutely sure it is available. DMA has been tried enabled, and disabled, currently it is enabled. CD is alone on secondary Master controller. System is on 2 80G HD's on Maxtor/Promise ATA133 card. TDK's DMA mode was not configurable when installed on the Primary Master controller on the MSI w/ KT266 Pro Mobo, no built in UATA/RAID. Windows Update App. Compatiblility Update, as well as all others, have been successfull installed.
Windows XP built in CD-recording (Adaptec/Roxio) results in the same type of disc: Fully burned, but unreadable (RAW, no FS). I also tried disabling IMAPI somewhere well along the way, but this did not help.
Any suggestions from the experienced experts out there? Newbies, feel free to respond, but please, no responses about CD basics, or which software I should be using. I need the features Nero offers, which no other program does.
Your help is GREATLY appreciated.
Situation: I recently did a full fresh install of XP with my old TDK 24x CD-RW drive, including nero 5.5.5.6, and it worked fine (as far as I knew, since I had only burned Audio CD's, no other types). I sold the 24x, so I bought a 40x TDK to replace it. After installing the new drive right into the old slot and powering up, I found the new drive incompatible with my existing software version, so I uninstalled Nero, and reinstalled using the supplied CD. The first problem was that the new drive could not be recognized by Nero. I solved this by also installing the TDK Mixmaster software included on the CD, which appears to be a pleasantly dumbed down audio CD program. Once installed, the Nero program worked well on audio CD's, but whenever I tried to make an iso (data) CD, it would eject the blank CD, saying it was not empty. Re-checking the blank CD with the 'Medium-Info' button confirms the CD is actually blank, but the system failed to recognize it as such at the time of recording. Upgrading to 5.5.8.2 changed the problem to something about not being able to burn a multisession CD in DAO mode, (although I was not trying to burn a multisession CD in the first place.) So I changed to Track-at-Once, and Nero finally burned a data CD Successfully! Or so I thought, until I tried to read the CD in another CD. It was unreadable, and not blank. Reinserting it into the CD-RW drive in the original PC to test, I found it unreadable in the original system as well. Checking the medium info on the disc reveals an iso partition on the cd, but in raw mode, not CDFS, or anything usable. I retested making an audio CD. Works fine. Tried uninstalling, rebooting, regcleaning, reinstalling nero, and trying again, to no avail.
Configuration: ASPI version is correct, wnaspi32.dll is copied into nero, windows, system, and system32 directories to be absolutely sure it is available. DMA has been tried enabled, and disabled, currently it is enabled. CD is alone on secondary Master controller. System is on 2 80G HD's on Maxtor/Promise ATA133 card. TDK's DMA mode was not configurable when installed on the Primary Master controller on the MSI w/ KT266 Pro Mobo, no built in UATA/RAID. Windows Update App. Compatiblility Update, as well as all others, have been successfull installed.
Windows XP built in CD-recording (Adaptec/Roxio) results in the same type of disc: Fully burned, but unreadable (RAW, no FS). I also tried disabling IMAPI somewhere well along the way, but this did not help.
Any suggestions from the experienced experts out there? Newbies, feel free to respond, but please, no responses about CD basics, or which software I should be using. I need the features Nero offers, which no other program does.
Your help is GREATLY appreciated.
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