XP and CD authoring software

[Kartman]

Hello Folks,

I have, from time to time, casually overheard that there may be a question of incompatability between XP's native CD authoring subsystem and one or more commercially-released CD authoring software products. So far, Adaptec is the only one that comes to mind, but I was wondering if there are others.

I just built a new PC and the Lite-On burner came with Nero. I was using Adaptec (Roxi?) EZ CD Creator 5 Platinum under a Windows 98 environment, but now I've using Windows XP Professional on the new PC. I read one article last night one another forum suggesting to another person to disable the native CD authoring feature in XP before trying another program/application.

Any thoughts about this? I just upgraded another (older) PC and got XP on it, too, (how convenient, huh?) for the wife to use, but I do not want to go through the headache of reinstalling all her stuff just to install Nero/Adaptec for a BDOS. Any enlightenment would be appreciated as always.

 

[andrey]

I'm using Nero 5.5.8.2 on my Windows XP Professional and it works flawlessly. I didn't have to disable any built-in recording features.

 

[Workin']

Originally posted by: andrey
I'm using Nero 5.5.8.2 on my Windows XP Professional and it works flawlessly. I didn't have to disable any built-in recording features.

Same here.

 

[Kartman]

So, I went ahead (no pun intended) and installed Ahead's Nero Burning Rom (5.5.x.y) and upon completing the install it asked to restart the computer. I let it, and upon reboot I get a BlackSOD telling me it could no longer find 'd:\windows\ntoskrnl.exe' and to "please reinstall this file before attempting to start Windows XP".

Okay ... so much for all the wife's migrated files, hehe. I flip the hard power switch on the back, unplug the PC, and wait 10 seconds. Plug in the PC, flip the main power switch and attempt to boot. No problems booting, and no evidence that there ever was a problem. I am curious, though, if this might have been something to do with Nero, the fact that XP is installed on the D: drive (boot files on C, etc., or just some other devine quirk rearing its ugly head.

Ideas?

 

[Workin']

My guess would be that the strangeness is because XP is on the D drive. Does Nero work?

 

[ForUmuse]

I don't think so. Its driving an older Sony 10/8/16 CDRW, and the erase activity of a 8X CDRW disc took 40 minutes. I then tried to burn some files, including the /documents & Setting/testuser directory, which was about 32MB in file content, and it errored out. Again, this is not a perfect test. I'm thinking of putting 2000 Server back on as it was more stable and amicable. Also, not entirely sure that XPpro is recognizing both Celeron processors (its a BP6-based PC). In 2000, both processors show up in the Task Manager, but not so in XP.