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[mu5s4ic]

I have a Pavillion/Intell III, LG CD-RW CED 8080B and I am running
XP professional. Recently I installed Roxio Easy CD&DVD burning.
THE PROBLEM: When I load any CDs previously recorded (DATA, MP3,
and others with info), the drive shows them as "blank CD" ???  
...but I can read all of these on my laptop (w/XP).
Does anyone have an idea what is happening ???

-regards
j

Edited by mu5s4ic, 27 December 2007 - 12:33 PM.

[grandpabruce]

I have a Pavillion/Intell III, LG CD-RW CED 8080B and I am running
XP professional. Recently I installed Roxio Easy CD&DVD burning.
THE PROBLEM: When I load any CDs previously recorded (DATA, MP3,
and others with info), the drive shows them as "blank CD" ???  
...but I can read all of these on my laptop (w/XP).
Does anyone have an idea what is happening ???

-regards
j

What version of Roxio software do you have?

[james_hardin]

What kind of media are you using? How were they written?

That is a very old burner which cannot read most of the newer media. That is why we need the info about the media and how it was written.

[mu5s4ic]

What version of Roxio software do you have?

first, thanks for your reply---
The CDs are Maxells 700 mb. They were burned with some ?Easy CD Creator?
software that came with my WinME (before I upgraded to XP) on this computer.

But, even if I  "write the disks using ROXIO",   the mediaCD still appears as
"blank CD" when I try to read it back.
Do you think the CD drive itself is old and is not working properly with XP now?

Much appreciated-
Joe

[james_hardin]

Are they R or RW media?

IF RW what is the speed?

Is there any chance you wrote them using Drag to Disc or DirectCD? (packet writers)

If you cannot tell us more info on HOW you wrote them, we cannot help – no crystal balls around my desk…

Discs are read the Operating System. Discs written by Classic are usually written using CDFS.

CDFS is timeless and discs written with that are readable in any PC from Win3.x to Vista!

[Brendon]

But, even if I  "write the disks using ROXIO",   the mediaCD still appears as
"blank CD" when I try to read it back.
Do you think the CD drive itself is old and is not working properly with XP now?

Can you read anything on that drive?  Commercially pressed discs? Anything?

If not, the drive is very unwell.