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CD-RW Drive will not recognize anymore RW discs

Nov 2, 2004 9:35AM PST

I have a combo HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC4320B drive as master and Samsung CD-ROM SC152G as slave installed in an Intel Board D845GEBV2 with P4 2.4 GHZ and 512 MB Ram and WXP SP1 OS. My computer used to recognize and burn CD-RW discs, but lately it just won't recognize and write CD-RW. The drive can still read diff formats of discs except CD-RW and can still burn CDRs. As far as I know, my system is clean of spywares and viruses as I scan it regularly. I have Spybot, Ad-Aware, WinPatrol, Sygate personal firewall and AVG antivirus installed. I can not keep track when the problem happened as I was religiously downloading updates from MS and just learned about it when I was trying to burn a CD-RW. I also have an Adaptec UDF reader installed and using Roxio CD Creator 5 as my CD burner and copier. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling driver and Roxio software to no avail. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Re: CD-RW Drive will not recognize anymore RW discs
Nov 3, 2004 12:34PM PST

I had a similar problem with Roxio, the way i fixed the problem was by getting rid of roxio, and i never had a problem again. Hate to say it, but it worked.

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Re: CD-RW Drive will not recognize anymore RW discs
Nov 4, 2004 3:59AM PST

very true. get rid of roxio. try nero burner instead.

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Re: CD-RW Drive will not recognize anymore RW discs
Nov 4, 2004 4:42AM PST

Try reinstalling Roxio CD Creator 5, I've been using it for over a year now and I use all RW discs for backups never any trouble.

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I use Roxio 5 and 6
Nov 4, 2004 10:03PM PST

and have no problems with RW disks; however, I make sure I have the latest update for 5, and didn't install the update for 6 because although it claims to be English, it isn't and it was a bear to uninstall. There is also a DRIVE update for both versions that I highly recommend because it updates the list of manufacturers that it recognizes that make cdrw and dvd-rw and yours may not be included without that update.

TONI