I just installed an old HP CD-Writer 9100 series on a computer running
Win98SE. The drive itself seems fine, but HP's burning software craps
out on this computer. As soon as I start to select a file or folder to
start a list for burning to a data CD, a Blue Screen of Death pops up,
freezing everything and forcing a reboot. Happens every time and all I
can figure is some incompatiblity between the software and the computer.

So my question is:
What do folks here recommend for a free alternative to burning software
that should work with this older (internal) HP burner and Win98SE?

Daze

On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:22:37 -0700, "Daze N. Knights" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>So my question is:
>What do folks here recommend for a free alternative to burning software
>that should work with this older (internal) HP burner and Win98SE?


Burnatonce
http://www.burnatonce.com/

System Requirements
IBM compatible PC running Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP

burnatonce is designed to write your cds quickly and
with minimum fuss. The interface is simple, fast to use,
yet powerful and is not cluttered with any wizards or
cuddly animated characters. Unfortunately this means
that less experienced users may initially need to consult
the help file along with the excellent cdrfaq to get started.

burnatonce can be used to write existing images which
are in cue/bin, toc/dat or iso format as well as compiling
data and audio cds from various files.



/CoMa

"Daze N. Knights" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:42a7d223$0$1809$(E-Mail Removed):

> What do folks here recommend for a free alternative to burning
> software that should work with this older (internal) HP burner and
> Win98SE?
>

I use "CDBurnerXP Pro" on Win98se, it's also rated as burning to HP
9100 series (73% positive so good chance it'll work for you).

<http://www.cdburnerxp.se/>

I like it, and think it's good freeware.

--
dee

Mike Dee wrote:
> Daze N. Knights wrote:
>
>> What do folks here recommend for a free alternative to burning
>> software that should work with this older (internal) HP burner and
>> Win98SE?
>
> I use "CDBurnerXP Pro" on Win98se, it's also rated as burning to HP
> 9100 series (73% positive so good chance it'll work for you).
>
> <http://www.cdburnerxp.se/>
>
> I like it, and think it's good freeware.

And not only that, but I noticed that in spite of the name's inclusion
of "xp", it runs on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 Server.

--
Regards from John Corliss
I don't reply to trolls. No adware, cdware, commercial software,
crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware, spyware,
time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez please.

>>> Win98SE?
>>
>> I use "CDBurnerXP Pro" on Win98se, it's also rated as burning to HP
>> 9100 series (73% positive so good chance it'll work for you).
>>
>> <http://www.cdburnerxp.se/>
>>
>> I like it, and think it's good freeware.
>
> And not only that, but I noticed that in spite of the name's inclusion
> of "xp", it runs on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 Server.
>

I've been ignoring that one although I've been looking for a burner - also
for my B-i-Law, who's been issued a copy of Nero Express with his new
burner, and although it works it's _very_ tacky, and won't size to fit his
resolution.

(I tried my bundled Nero burning rom in his puter and it's been rigged not
to work with another disc drive.... b******s!)

Deepburner is good, but still a bit flaky for a guy who's a bit of a
novice, but this prog looks very good for him - and me, both running 98SE.

Thanks for the lead

mike

Mike Dee wrote:
> "Daze N. Knights" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:42a7d223$0$1809$(E-Mail Removed):
>
>
>>What do folks here recommend for a free alternative to burning
>>software that should work with this older (internal) HP burner and
>>Win98SE?
>>
>
>
> I use "CDBurnerXP Pro" on Win98se, it's also rated as burning to HP
> 9100 series (73% positive so good chance it'll work for you).
>
> <http://www.cdburnerxp.se/>
>
> I like it, and think it's good freeware.
>

Hmm. I just tried both CDburnerXP (which looks good) and Deepburner
(which is confusing), and neither one would recognize the existence of
my drive, much less enable it to burn CDs. The computer recognizes it
and one can read CDs with it fine. I'm wondering if I'm in need of
special drivers for this HP CD-Writer Plus 9100 Series drive, or maybe
its too old for the current versions of these two burning programs?

I haven't tried CoMa's suggestion -- Burnatonce -- because it sounds
likely to be confusing for the intended user: my father.

Daze

Daze N. Knights wrote:
> Mike Dee wrote:
>
>> "Daze N. Knights" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
>> news:42a7d223$0$1809$(E-Mail Removed):
>>
>>> What do folks here recommend for a free alternative to burning
>>> software that should work with this older (internal) HP burner and
>>> Win98SE?
>>
>>
>>
>> I use "CDBurnerXP Pro" on Win98se, it's also rated as burning to HP
>> 9100 series (73% positive so good chance it'll work for you).
>>
>> <http://www.cdburnerxp.se/>
>>
>> I like it, and think it's good freeware.
>
>
> Hmm. I just tried both CDburnerXP (which looks good) and Deepburner
> (which is confusing), and neither one would recognize the existence of
> my drive, much less enable it to burn CDs. The computer recognizes it
> and one can read CDs with it fine. I'm wondering if I'm in need of
> special drivers for this HP CD-Writer Plus 9100 Series drive, or maybe
> its too old for the current versions of these two burning programs?
>
> I haven't tried CoMa's suggestion -- Burnatonce -- because it sounds
> likely to be confusing for the intended user: my father.
>
> Daze

Daze;

I'd recommend going to cdburnerxp's forum and posting. Responses aren't
lightening-fast but, give it a couple of days and there will likely be
something approaching a definitive answer. I've been using the product
for over a year now and whether ripping/burning or iso's...it's pretty
straight-forward.

g'luck,
-Sparky

Sparky wrote:

> I'd recommend going to cdburnerxp's forum and posting. Responses aren't
> lightening-fast but, give it a couple of days and there will likely be
> something approaching a definitive answer. I've been using the product
> for over a year now and whether ripping/burning or iso's...it's pretty
> straight-forward.
>
> g'luck,
> -Sparky

As it turns out, I just finished trying CDburnerXP, Deepburner, and
Burnatonce--one after the other--and all three of them failed to
recognize the existence of the HP CD-Writer. I also tried all three of
them both with and without the HP software installed with the same
result. Then I tried it again with only the original HP software
installed, and it worked perfectly. Go figure it. Another mystery. But
alls well that ends well.

Daze

mike ring wrote:
>>>>Win98SE?
>>>
>>>I use "CDBurnerXP Pro" on Win98se, it's also rated as burning to HP
>>>9100 series (73% positive so good chance it'll work for you).
>>>
>>> <http://www.cdburnerxp.se/>
>>>
>>>I like it, and think it's good freeware.
>>
>>And not only that, but I noticed that in spite of the name's inclusion
>>of "xp", it runs on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 Server.
>>
>
>
> I've been ignoring that one although I've been looking for a burner - also
> for my B-i-Law, who's been issued a copy of Nero Express with his new
> burner, and although it works it's _very_ tacky, and won't size to fit his
> resolution.
>
> (I tried my bundled Nero burning rom in his puter and it's been rigged not
> to work with another disc drive.... b******s!)
>

Yes. I have Nero that came with a TDK burner. When bundled, it is
definitely specific to the bundled hardware -- don't waste your time
trying to use it with a different brand. People like the paid version,
though.

Richard

Daze N. Knights wrote:
> I just installed an old HP CD-Writer 9100 series on a computer running
> Win98SE. The drive itself seems fine, but HP's burning software craps
> out on this computer. As soon as I start to select a file or folder to
> start a list for burning to a data CD, a Blue Screen of Death pops up,
> freezing everything and forcing a reboot. Happens every time and all I
> can figure is some incompatiblity between the software and the computer.
>
> So my question is:
> What do folks here recommend for a free alternative to burning software
> that should work with this older (internal) HP burner and Win98SE?
>
> Daze

I like Exact Audio Copy very much. It's powerful, flexible, and offers
different ways to custom-fit your drive. It's got good manners and works
marvelously. This program is not just for copying nasty scratched CDs,
but can build up a disk from loose files, just like Roxio, Nero, etc.
However, its file types are more limited, although its range encompass
..wav encoding, which is standard enough.

It is not easy to figure out, however. But at the cost of a few wasted
CDRs, you should achieve success. The program has been tested with a
number of existing drives to offer good pre-configurations. In other
cases, it performs tests on the drive to establish its custom criteria.

I recently made myself a nifty disk of wake-up music for my CD alarm
clock. It's 13th century (medieval) English church music -- very
primitive, etheric, and wonderful -- a fine way to enter the world of
wake from the world of sleep. My disk contains short music pieces
separated by 10-minute selections of silence -- in other words, a
do-it-yourself snooze alarm. What I wanted was a disk that doesn't play
piece after piece in instant succession, but just one short piece, and
then stop. I want to wake up very pleasantly, not listen to an entire
album for entertainment.

Exact Audio Copy made the assemblage flawless. I wish that I could say
the same thing about the lousy Sony CDR disks, however -- the ones I
have are off-spec; they wobble in the RCA radio's cheap CD drive, and
skip in my car's CD player: fine in good hi-fi component-quality CD
players, but in the clock radio, I can see the disk wobbling all over
the place as the music skips. The problem vanished when I used Fuji
disks (made by Taiyo Yuden -- a manufacturer trusted by professionals).
TY disks are really hard to find retail, but I don't trust most major
brands any more (TDKs say "India" on them now, as they, too, lunge to
the cheapest labor they can find). As an audio person, I want to be
confident in my media -- I've had too many hassles from sub-standard
stuff to want to fool around.

I once brought home a new HP CD drive and read the manual before
unpacking the hardware. The manual said that I could have all the
"award-winning" phone support I could eat for $2 per minute. I
immediately put the manual back in the box and took it back for a
refund. I've been using a Plextor burner ever since, and I've been very,
very happy with their free support, as well as the quality of the
burner. But, of course, if I got a free HP drive, I'd want to take it
for a spin. With free hardware, as with free software, I'll put up with
bad or no support (what do you want for nothing?). However, when I pay
money, the folks who made it better damn well make themselves available
to answer questions by phone. email support doesn't cut it, in my
experience.

My 2 cents.

Richard