DVD/CD RW and XP question

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I recently purchased the Sony DRX 720UL-T DVD/CD RW external Drive. It is on
a USB hub. It has worked once and when it did it took about 30 minutes to
burn a CD. MSXP PRO does not recognize it as a RW drive. I had to set the
registry value to make it writable (MS KB article) but it changes back with
every hardware scan. Any one have any ideas of what I am doing wrong? I am
curious why MS XP has such a problem with burning DVD/CD''s? Sony is no help
except to advise me to down load latest versions of Nero and INCD and then
reinstall. Which I did and it resolved nothing. I have used FUJI and Memorex
Cs's. I think I wasted a couple of hundred bucks...
I will appreciate any ideas.
 
Steve said:
I recently purchased the Sony DRX 720UL-T DVD/CD RW external Drive.
It is on a USB hub. It has worked once and when it did it took
about 30 minutes to burn a CD. MSXP PRO does not recognize it as a RW
drive. I had to set the registry value to make it writable (MS KB
article) but it changes back with every hardware scan. Any one have
any ideas of what I am doing wrong? I am curious why MS XP has such
a problem with burning DVD/CD''s? Sony is no help except to advise
me to down load latest versions of Nero and INCD and then reinstall.
Which I did and it resolved nothing. I have used FUJI and Memorex
Cs's. I think I wasted a couple of hundred bucks...
I will appreciate any ideas.
Click to expand...

Take it back to the store and have them replace it,sounds defective.
 
Steve with xp pro said:
I recently purchased the Sony DRX 720UL-T DVD/CD RW external Drive. It is
on
a USB hub. It has worked once and when it did it took about 30 minutes
to
burn a CD. MSXP PRO does not recognize it as a RW drive. I had to set the
registry value to make it writable (MS KB article) but it changes back
with
every hardware scan. Any one have any ideas of what I am doing wrong? I
am
curious why MS XP has such a problem with burning DVD/CD''s? Sony is no
help
except to advise me to down load latest versions of Nero and INCD and then
reinstall. Which I did and it resolved nothing. I have used FUJI and
Memorex
Cs's. I think I wasted a couple of hundred bucks...
I will appreciate any ideas.
Click to expand...

Possibly:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03september16.mspx

or: http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php

Hope this helps.

By the way, Sony was right. If you plan on doing any but very casual CD
burning, you need something other than the XP built-in CD burning software.
The XP CD burning software is right in there with the XP Fax software as a
package that just barely works.

For free CD burning software, see: http://www.burnatonce.com/downloads/
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download

Dick Kistler
 
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