Help for fixing CD Recording Wizard

[Guest]

OK, Now I realized the IMAPI service only is loaded when the recording wizard
starts (seems logical). However, I don't know why it says there isn't any CD,
if the drive does have a CD (CDRW). Sometimes it can detect it, but most of
the times it doesn't.

 

[Rock]

OK, Now I realized the IMAPI service only is loaded when the recording
wizard
starts (seems logical). However, I don't know why it says there isn't any
CD,
if the drive does have a CD (CDRW). Sometimes it can detect it, but most
of
the times it doesn't.

I don't know. Have you run a CD cleaning disk in the drive?

 

[Rock]

I don't know. Have you run a CD cleaning disk in the drive?

Yes. Actually I have realized the wizard some times fails to recognize the
CD media. For example: [1] yesterday I burned some files to a CDRW.
[2]Today morning I wanted to update some of those files and CD Burning
wizard said there wasn't any CD in the drive. [3] I restarted the system
and
I could burn the files. Do you think it had to do something the fact I
hibernated the PC yesterday (before case [2])

It's possible, I suppose - do some testing. Could also be an intermittent
hardware fault in the CD drive.

 

[Guest]

Hello guys, I have been following this thread (and others!) pretty closely as
I'm having EXACTLY the same problem as described. The discs are not being
recognised in either the CDRW or DVDRW drives, so I do not believe there is a
fault with both drives in exactly the same way that occured at exactly the
same time.

So, as described previously, the system used to work fine, then all of a
sudden it doesn't. No apparent reason (ie no major system changes) and
nobody in any of the threads has any good explanation for this, or more
importantly, any solutions.

I've gone through all the IMAPI starting/stopping problems, edited the
registry so the values are [2] for both drives, checked the CD recording tab
in the drive properties, etc...

The slight good news is that I've found a program that will actually work,
CDBurnerXP Pro 3 (Roxio was telling me that the drive was reserved by another
app., and I had to insert a disc, etc) but there is still no drag and drop
service or burning through WMP as it says to connect a burner and restart the
app.

There is obviously something wrong with the system, I have no idea what, and
it seems that there aren't many clear ideas about what to do. As asked
before, does anyone know which part of the registry would be responsible for
'seeing' discs and what the normal values would be??

PS. There might be a clue in the fact that Sonic DLA doesn't seem to be
updating properly. When I try to update it gives an error message about not
being able to make a connection - DLA being the mechanism through which
native dragging and dropping works - does anyone know what causes this type
of error message and what it means?

 

[Guest]

In addition to the above, I was looking at Kelly's and saw that there was
some registry info for enabling drag and drop, no. 233 second column, which I
didn't seem to have. Typed them into, and even after a reboot there doesn't
seem to be any difference.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/enabledragndrop.reg

Also, WMP isn't the only app that doesn't recognise a burner present, Media
Monkey doesn't either...

Hello guys, I have been following this thread (and others!) pretty closely as
I'm having EXACTLY the same problem as described. The discs are not being
recognised in either the CDRW or DVDRW drives, so I do not believe there is a
fault with both drives in exactly the same way that occured at exactly the
same time.

So, as described previously, the system used to work fine, then all of a
sudden it doesn't. No apparent reason (ie no major system changes) and
nobody in any of the threads has any good explanation for this, or more
importantly, any solutions.

I've gone through all the IMAPI starting/stopping problems, edited the
registry so the values are [2] for both drives, checked the CD recording tab
in the drive properties, etc...

The slight good news is that I've found a program that will actually work,
CDBurnerXP Pro 3 (Roxio was telling me that the drive was reserved by another
app., and I had to insert a disc, etc) but there is still no drag and drop
service or burning through WMP as it says to connect a burner and restart the
app.

There is obviously something wrong with the system, I have no idea what, and
it seems that there aren't many clear ideas about what to do. As asked
before, does anyone know which part of the registry would be responsible for
'seeing' discs and what the normal values would be??

PS. There might be a clue in the fact that Sonic DLA doesn't seem to be
updating properly. When I try to update it gives an error message about not
being able to make a connection - DLA being the mechanism through which
native dragging and dropping works - does anyone know what causes this type
of error message and what it means?

It's possible, I suppose - do some testing. Could also be an intermittent
hardware fault in the CD drive.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Rock shared these words of wisdom:

If I recollect I said that some 3rd party programs disable the
windows in build burning software. This is probably what's messing
with the IMAPI service.

This is not true for the newer versions of Roxio as well as Nero.
I did not have any problem with Roxio 5.0 and 6.0 on my desktop
computer where now IMAPI is broken and behaves totally erratical.

And Roxio 6.x and Nero 6.0 co-exist happily with the XP burning
(IMAPI) on my old notebook as well as my new TabletPC.

You could uninstall that software.

This did not help om my side - even after ahving used Roxio and Nero's
cleaning utilities.

IMAPI still behaves totally erratical.

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Manuel S. shared these words of wisdom:

OK: Let's begin again. The original burning software (Roxio Digital
Media) doesn't interfer with IMAPI - when the pc was used for first
time every thing worked ok.

It worked OK for more than 1 1/2 years with Roxio 5.x and 6.0
(replaced 5.x half a year ago) plus Nero 6.x. on my desktop.
And both still co-exist happily with IMAPI on my old notebook as well
as my new TabletPC.

But now IMAPI burning is broken on my desktop.
It behaves toatlly erratical with all of my *six* burners (one at a

Now I have the IMAPI service for being
started automatically, however, when booting windows it is not
started (why?) . Then, if I start it manually, when trying to burn
a CD the wizard says there is not any CD and IMAPI.exe seems to be
terminated (it is removed from the process list).

AFAICS it's not a problem a problem of the IMAPI service starting.
IMO it's aproblem with the detection of the *media*.
When I inserted writable/re-writable media only at random the icon for
the drive in the "My computer" windows changes.
And sometimes I can write on a CD/CD-RW, the next time the wizard does
not see that it's a medium for recording.

Sometimes it helps to disable the "recording" feature in the drive's
property dialog and the re-enablig it.
But not always.
The system will burn correctly now and not do that 5 minutes later.

I'm helpless.

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Manuel S. shared these words of wisdom:

Hi, Rainald: well, my roxio version is "SE" (Not deluxe, so I have
to upgrade for having drag and drop).
That's why I want to fix the IMAPI service.

Oh I see. I got Roxio 6 "Basis edition" with my HP DVD drive.
So it's even far more urgent for you than for me.

I had uninstalled Nero as well as Roxio for troubleshooting.
As the latter was not successful, I re-installed both.
Seems that I have to live with that as so far I could not receive any
help, wherever I asked [siiiigh].
AFAICS only a "repair-install" of XP might cure the problem. And I am
not up to running this risk.

As I said before: 1) It
is not started automatically, despite it is set to do it.
2) It exits after saying there is not any CD in the drive (of
course there is a blank CDR/CDRW)
3)All this used to work together with roxio... but at some moment
in the recent 3 months it was broken down!

So I'm not alone ...
Same issues.

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Manuel S. shared these words of wisdom:

OK, Now I realized the IMAPI service only is loaded when the
recording wizard starts (seems logical). However, I don't know why
it says there isn't any CD, if the drive does have a CD (CDRW).
Sometimes it can detect it, but most of the times it doesn't.

Exactly the same on my side.

Rainald
P.S. How about the icons for the drive in "my computer"?
Does the icon change to a disk with the label "CD"/"CD-RW" when
instering a disk?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Rock shared these words of wisdom:

Could also be an intermittent hardware fault in the CD drive.

Not so on my side.
The same situation with all six of my multibay drives.
And it works perfect with all of them on my TabletPC.

Rainald

 

[Rock]

Rock shared these words of wisdom:


This is not true for the newer versions of Roxio as well as Nero.
I did not have any problem with Roxio 5.0 and 6.0 on my desktop computer
where now IMAPI is broken and behaves totally erratical.

And Roxio 6.x and Nero 6.0 co-exist happily with the XP burning (IMAPI) on
my old notebook as well as my new TabletPC.


This did not help om my side - even after ahving used Roxio and Nero's
cleaning utilities.

IMAPI still behaves totally erratical.

Rainald

Well it's not coexisting now.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Rock shared these words of wisdom:

Well it's not coexisting now.

What do you want to say by this?
Do you think that this might be of help???

I can only repeat that there is no problem on two of my three machines
(those in my lab not counted <!>).
And there was no problem until recently.

And I had cleaned evrything possible to no avail.

I'm pretty sure that it is something else.
But what?

Rainald

 

[Rock]

Rock shared these words of wisdom:

What do you want to say by this?
Do you think that this might be of help???

I can only repeat that there is no problem on two of my three machines
(those in my lab not counted <!>).
And there was no problem until recently.

And I had cleaned evrything possible to no avail.

I'm pretty sure that it is something else.
But what?

Rainald I don't know, sorry. Good luck to you.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Rock shared these words of wisdom:

Rainald I don't know, sorry. Good luck to you.

It seems that the problem is mainly solved.
And the guilty part for that is YOU <gbg>

Out of pure luck I stumbled over the thread
"Autoplay does not work" by Bob Fay, message-ID
<[email protected]>
where you had written:

" [Courtesy the late MVP Alex Nichol]
Some MSoft people have written an unofficial program to fix problems
with Autoplay. As such it is not on a Microsoft site, but it can be
found
at http://www.bigblackglasses.com/staff/downloads/autofix.exe "

As for quite some time I had suspected a problem with Autoplay (as
explained, the icon for the drive in "My Computer" did not change and
not reflect the type of medium) I downloaded the utility and let it
run. It made a few corrections. And presto: Things seem back to
normal.

Only oddity remaining - and in so far different from the situation on
my notebook and my TabletPC -:
When Autoplay fires on inserting a blank (re-)writable disc the dialog
for selecting the wanted action is empty. It does neither show the
option to "open the folder for recordable CD" nor to use Roxio.

This is corresponding to the fact that in the drive's
properties-dialog under "Autoplay" I can not make any selection.

Do you have any idea on where to look in the registry for setting the
Autoplay options?
I could then have a look in the proper section on my other computers
and perhaps take over the settings there (the drives in questions are
used on all three machines).

Thanks a million for your (in so far unknowingly given <gbg>)
solution!!
Regards from Germany

Rainald
P.S. As to your theory on co-existence:
It's neither Roxio nor Nero which caused the problems.
I'd rather suspect WMP 11 which had recently installed and which shows
some oddities (complaining about old invalid drivers), but that's a
different subject for a another NG

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Manuel S. shared these words of wisdom:

OK, Now I realized the IMAPI service only is loaded when the
recording wizard starts (seems logical). However, I don't know why
it says there isn't any CD, if the drive does have a CD (CDRW).
Sometimes it can detect it, but most of the times it doesn't.

Manuel,
are you still listening?

Problems seem to have been cured on my side.
Pls see my last reply to Rock.

All the best
Rainald

 

[Rock]

Rock shared these words of wisdom:

Rainald I don't know, sorry. Good luck to you.

It seems that the problem is mainly solved.
And the guilty part for that is YOU <gbg>

Out of pure luck I stumbled over the thread
"Autoplay does not work" by Bob Fay, message-ID
<[email protected]>
where you had written:

" [Courtesy the late MVP Alex Nichol]
Some MSoft people have written an unofficial program to fix problems
with Autoplay. As such it is not on a Microsoft site, but it can be found
at http://www.bigblackglasses.com/staff/downloads/autofix.exe "

As for quite some time I had suspected a problem with Autoplay (as
explained, the icon for the drive in "My Computer" did not change and
not reflect the type of medium) I downloaded the utility and let it
run. It made a few corrections. And presto: Things seem back to
normal.

Only oddity remaining - and in so far different from the situation on
my notebook and my TabletPC -:
When Autoplay fires on inserting a blank (re-)writable disc the dialog
for selecting the wanted action is empty. It does neither show the
option to "open the folder for recordable CD" nor to use Roxio.

This is corresponding to the fact that in the drive's properties-dialog
under "Autoplay" I can not make any selection.

Do you have any idea on where to look in the registry for setting the
Autoplay options?
I could then have a look in the proper section on my other computers
and perhaps take over the settings there (the drives in questions are
used on all three machines).

Thanks a million for your (in so far unknowingly given <gbg>)
solution!!
Regards from Germany

Rainald
P.S. As to your theory on co-existence:
It's neither Roxio nor Nero which caused the problems.
I'd rather suspect WMP 11 which had recently installed and which shows
some oddities (complaining about old invalid drivers), but that's a
different subject for a another NG

Lol..guilty as charged. What we don't know is what hosed things in the
first place. Btw it wasn't my theory that either of those caused the
problem, just that they were a possibility, and I don't think that's been
ruled out. There is insufficient data to say what caused it.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Rock shared these words of wisdom:

It seems that the problem is mainly solved.
And the guilty part for that is YOU <gbg>

[Autofix utility]

Lol..guilty as charged.

;-) ;-)

What we don't know is what hosed things in
the first place.

Indeed.
Would be really god to know what had caused the problems.

[Roxio / Nero]

Btw it wasn't my theory that either of those
caused the problem, just that they were a possibility, and I don't
think that's been ruled out.

I think so.
Both Nero and Roxio are back and the entries for "UpperFilter" and
"LowerFilter" are from Roxio.
I'd rather suspect changes made by Windows Media Player or iLink which
had recently been installed when I first detected the problem.

There is insufficient data to say what caused it.

Only too true :-( :-(
And it's really strange that AutoFix fixed the problem.
But - as said before - the real problem was the inability of the sytem
to detect the TYPE OF MEDIUM in the drives.
No idea where in Windows the machinery for that may be hidden.

Even if we don't know what really was the matter (definitely not the
usual problems with Adaptec/Roxio drivers getting in the way after an
incomplete uninstall) - the End is well, so All is well.
Only too sad that Manuel - who had started *this* thread - obviously
gave up to early.

A million of thanks and the best wishes for a happy and prosperous
2007

Rainald
http://www.hs-heilbronn.de/Members/taesler