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is CD software interchangeable between cd drives?

Oct 15, 2004 10:55AM PDT

hello,

I have some great cd burning utilites from my plextor drive, but I retired the drive cuz it was only 12x. can I install and use those programs those on a win 2000 machine with a 52x lite-on drive? or will it only work with the plextor drive? -fj

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Re: is CD software interchangeable between cd drives?
Oct 15, 2004 11:36AM PDT

OEM bundled software rarely works across drives. You can try it, but don't get too much hope...

Bob

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Re: is CD software interchangeable between cd drives?
Oct 15, 2004 12:26PM PDT

I agree with Robert, bundled s/w isn't a given to work on other drives, but you can try. Now, maybe a good time to try a "retail" versions and understand they offer alot more than when you got your older s/w. The most notable are Roxio and Nero. I lean towards Nero, but you can check your CD/RW burner support website they may provide an OEM for your use. If you like a very cheap retail version(older), try this website:
http://www.pcliquidators.com/ and look for CD Creator v3.x, I believe under s/w area.

good luck -----Willy Happy

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Re: is CD software interchangeable between cd drives?
Oct 15, 2004 10:42PM PDT

If it is name brand burning software, it probably won't recognize the newer drive.
You may be able to upgrade the drive recognition part of the software for free.
If you have saved burning profiles, some burning software is NOT backwards compatible (yes roxio, I mean you!)
The new drive doesn't have decent software?

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I miss the simplicity
Oct 16, 2004 2:02AM PDT

well this old plextor has a program called audio capture that is just so EASY. I still have it running in a win 98 machine. no muss, no fuss. I miss it. with these new programs, I always forget which of the 200 buttons does the one thing I want. I actually have to write little notes to myself to remind me how to do some simple task that took an hour of digging around in menus to find. I can't decipher the program that came with my creative sound card. --fj