CD writer won't write on newly installed Win 2003 Server (HP Pavillion)

[jcd]

Hi.

I recently installed Windows Server 2003 onto an old HP Pavillion 6746C
machine that came with Win ME on it. ( what a nasty OS! ) The box has an
Adaptec CD-RW drive. The original setup came with Easy CD Creator and a
CD-to-CD copying program, as well.

When I put a fresh CD-R into the drive, it doesn't register it as anything I
can write to. Just says it has 0 free bytes and 0 bytes total size. On my
Sony Vaio, which I installed WinXP Pro onto, it will write to the very same
CD-R, so the CD-R itself is not the issue.

Any ideas on how I can:
a) get the drive to recognize and write to a CD-R ?
--- OR ---
b) install the old EasyCD Creator onto Win 2003 Server from the old
HP Pavilion CDs ?

Thanks for any help!

 

[Bobby]

I would recommend re-installing the Easy CD software.
Then going to the website and downloading the most current
update version.

Hope that helps...

 

[jcd]

Well ... that didn't work at all. Screwed things up so much that I had to
reinstall Windows 2003 Server! I think it was some kind of incompatibility
with the Win2000 driver vs. the Win2003 driver.

I tried it though! ;-)

Thanks.