DirectCD 3 won't work in WinXP

[Vossaka]

My PC has a HP9100 CDRW. It came with Roxio DirectCD 3
which I used for backups. It worked fine in Win2000. I
just upgraded from WinXP and found that WinXP refuses to
load DirectCD, giving a message that the drivers might
cause unstability. This means that I cannot read my data
which I backed up via DirectCD. I hadn't closed off the
disc because I was planning to use it again in WinXP.

Roxio's only advice is to pay $100 to upgrade to EasyCD
version 6, they do not have a patch for ver3 to run in XP.

Is anyone aware of any other solution? can I get
DirectCD 3 to work in XP? Or can I get some other
software to read the disc.

regards,
Vossaka

 

[a-p]

If you don't want to pay that extra money and you wan't
to stay legal, then you have to find some freeware
burning program. Use Google to find.

 

[FredP]

Vossaka ... Yes, XP will not work with pre-EasyCD ver 6. DirectCD uses
packet writing, and HP offers a free download called DLA to enable packet
writing. It's available at http://tinyurl.com/hagy

It should work with your HP CD-Writer ... but read the 'Note' at the above
site. I don't have first-hand experience with reading DirectCD files with
DLA, but it might be worth a try.