Hello peoples;
I've been having an ongoing problem with my CD-RW drive. It doesn't
want to write to CD-R's or RW's. The process fails using XP's built-in Roxio
ap as well as Nero (which returns "invalid write state"). I've tried:
reinstalling the burner, different CDRs RWs, IN CD (also fails), installing
a completely different burner, among other things. The only thing that
worked was format and start over.
I've talked to others who have experienced similar problems but no one
has been able to define the solution.
I'm using AMD 2000 XP+ with 512 mgs ram running XP service Pak 1. The
current CDRW drive is an Artec and the previous was a Samsung 224b.
Maybe the problems began after I installed the new Windows Media Player
(9.0, I think) or the latest Active X . . . ?
Any help would be appreciated. Short of that, any pointers to material
that may help me figure this out on my own would invaluable. TIA
S'all for now . . .
H. Robert

Hi,

Conflicts?

You should only be enabling and using one (1) burning app. Using and loading
multiple ones invariably runs into conflicts. If you are using Nero, then
disable the imapi burning service (start/run services.msc, double-click the
imapi service, stop it and set the startup to disabled). If you want to use
the XP service, make sure the third-party app is not loading into memory at
boot (start/run msconfig and check the startup tab).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
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"res0y569" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello peoples;
> I've been having an ongoing problem with my CD-RW drive. It doesn't
> want to write to CD-R's or RW's. The process fails using XP's built-in
> Roxio
> ap as well as Nero (which returns "invalid write state"). I've tried:
> reinstalling the burner, different CDRs RWs, IN CD (also fails),
> installing
> a completely different burner, among other things. The only thing that
> worked was format and start over.
> I've talked to others who have experienced similar problems but no one
> has been able to define the solution.
> I'm using AMD 2000 XP+ with 512 mgs ram running XP service Pak 1. The
> current CDRW drive is an Artec and the previous was a Samsung 224b.
> Maybe the problems began after I installed the new Windows Media Player
> (9.0, I think) or the latest Active X . . . ?
> Any help would be appreciated. Short of that, any pointers to material
> that may help me figure this out on my own would invaluable. TIA
> S'all for now . . .
> H. Robert
>
>

Turn off the native XP burning capability if using 3rd party software like
Nero. From My Computer right click CDRW, Recording tab and take the tick
out of "enable recording on this drive".

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Kenny


"res0y569" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello peoples;
> I've been having an ongoing problem with my CD-RW drive. It doesn't
> want to write to CD-R's or RW's. The process fails using XP's built-in
Roxio
> ap as well as Nero (which returns "invalid write state"). I've tried:
> reinstalling the burner, different CDRs RWs, IN CD (also fails),
installing
> a completely different burner, among other things. The only thing that
> worked was format and start over.
> I've talked to others who have experienced similar problems but no
one
> has been able to define the solution.
> I'm using AMD 2000 XP+ with 512 mgs ram running XP service Pak 1. The
> current CDRW drive is an Artec and the previous was a Samsung 224b.
> Maybe the problems began after I installed the new Windows Media
Player
> (9.0, I think) or the latest Active X . . . ?
> Any help would be appreciated. Short of that, any pointers to material
> that may help me figure this out on my own would invaluable. TIA
> S'all for now . . .
> H. Robert
>
>