XP CD Burner problems

[N Millsap]

I have two computers, and one of them will not write to a CD any more
using XP native mode.

I'm certain that SP1 is not my problem here, so please, PLEASE, no
reply by Rich Barry quoting the article by Livingston about how XP hoses
the drives. I've read that article about 2 dozen times.

I have had SP1 installed for some time and with CD-R working fine. I
also have SP1 installed on an HP Pavilion with no problems whatsoever.
It writes to the CD-R in native XP mode just great. Just this one
machine has the problem.

Also, all windows updates are current on both computers.

When I insert a blank CD in my DVD/CD-RW, a dialog box appears stating:

"D:\ is not accessible
incorrect function"

It used to work fine - I could write to the drive with XP - no problems,
but lately I cannot write to the drive with the XP native burn mode.
The drive reads fine, and writes CDs just fine if I use media-player or
Musicmatch, or burnquick, so I know that nothing is wrong with the
drive, but it will not write using XP at all.

I have been on the Microsoft XP website, and have investigated all the
suggested fixes, but so far, nothing has worked.

The drive properties are reported as follows:
Hardware:
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-104
Driver Provider- Microsoft
Driver Date- 01/07/2001
Driver Ver- 5.1.2535.0
Recording:
Enable CD recording on this drive- Box is checked.
Store image to be written on drive- C:

The registry shows no upper or lower filters in
4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318.

I'm fresh out of ideas so any rational or logical ideas from anyone out
there would be greatly appreciated!

Norm

 

[Guest]

have you tried putting the drive into the other machine
and seeing if u can write then ?

 

[N Millsap]

I'm not sure if you completely read my original message. The drive
writes just fine, so I know there's nothing wrong with the drive. It
just won't write using XPs internal native CD write mode. I can write
to it using the media player, I can write to it using MusicMatch Burn, I
can write to it using BurnQuick.

Perhaps you can illuminate us as to why I should try to write to it in
another machine - have I missed something in my logic?

| have you tried putting the drive into the other machine
| and seeing if u can write then ?
| >-----Original Message-----
| >I have two computers, and one of them will not write to a
| CD any more
| >using XP native mode.
| >
| >I'm certain that SP1 is not my problem here, so please,
| PLEASE, no
| >reply by Rich Barry quoting the article by Livingston
| about how XP hoses
| >the drives. I've read that article about 2 dozen times.
| >
| > I have had SP1 installed for some time and with CD-R
| working fine. I
| >also have SP1 installed on an HP Pavilion with no
| problems whatsoever.
| >It writes to the CD-R in native XP mode just great. Just
| this one
| >machine has the problem.
| >
| >Also, all windows updates are current on both computers.
| >
| >When I insert a blank CD in my DVD/CD-RW, a dialog box
| appears stating:
| >
| > "D:\ is not accessible
| > incorrect function"
| >
| >It used to work fine - I could write to the drive with
| XP - no problems,
| >but lately I cannot write to the drive with the XP native
| burn mode.
| >The drive reads fine, and writes CDs just fine if I use
| media-player or
| >Musicmatch, or burnquick, so I know that nothing is wrong
| with the
| >drive, but it will not write using XP at all.
| >
| >I have been on the Microsoft XP website, and have
| investigated all the
| >suggested fixes, but so far, nothing has worked.
| >
| >The drive properties are reported as follows:
| >Hardware:
| > Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-104
| > Driver Provider- Microsoft
| > Driver Date- 01/07/2001
| > Driver Ver- 5.1.2535.0
| >Recording:
| > Enable CD recording on this drive- Box is
| checked.
| > Store image to be written on drive- C:
| >
| >The registry shows no upper or lower filters in
| >4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318.
| >
| >I'm fresh out of ideas so any rational or logical ideas
| from anyone out
| >there would be greatly appreciated!
| >
| >Norm
| >
| >
| >.
| >