hifrmny Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 I had to totally wipe and reformat my daughter's pc and reinstall her windows98se. She had been using Easy CD Creator 5.01 with DirectCD with no problems. Her burner is a Yamaha 201040. I was able to reinstall Easy CD Creator 5 and update to 5.01 but it gave a message for DirectCD that the drive was not supported and asked if I wanted to install anyway. I said yes. The DirectCD icon in the taskbar is X'd out so the program is unusable. I did install IExplorer v.6 and windows media player 9 which I don't think she had before I formatted her hard drive. The Easy CD Creator things all work fine. I just cannot get DirectCD to work as it says "no supported drive". I've been at this since yesterday with no solution yet. Can anyone PLEASE help? The burner is a Yamaha 201040. Hopefully there is a simple download to make the software recognize more burners. Thank You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn98109 Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Unfortunately, WinPlayer 9 is one of the programs that will "break" ECDC 5, and there is no cure short of a Hard Drive reformat. You are lucky to have the main program working. (Assuming you don't find out shortly it isn't.) However, discs written by DirectCD, and ALL Packet-Writing programs (Drag2Disc, Nero's InCD, Sonic's DLA, etc) are fussy at best, and tend to fail for any reason or none at all. If you use RW media instead of R media, that seems to speed up the losses. If you were using it for "backup" - be advised you haven't made any backups. If you were using it for temporary storage as a "great-big floppy-disc" - try a Flash Drive (aka Pen / Jump / Keychain / Thumb drive). If it's a question of retrieving files, and the built-in .udf reader in a WinXP computer doesn't find them (DON'T install anything !! it's the devil to get back out), try one of the recovery programs such as cdroller (www.cdroller.com) or ISOBuster (www.isobuster.com) - both have impressive testimonials on their websites and in the Roxio boards, and both have "trial" versions that you see if there is anything that can be recovered. (written in memory of the files I lost on a Packet-Written CD-RW) Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogdens Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 I had to totally wipe and reformat my daughter's pc and reinstall her windows98se. She had been using Easy CD Creator 5.01 with DirectCD with no problems. Her burner is a Yamaha 201040. I was able to reinstall Easy CD Creator 5 and update to 5.01 but it gave a message for DirectCD that the drive was not supported and asked if I wanted to install anyway. I said yes. The DirectCD icon in the taskbar is X'd out so the program is unusable. I did install IExplorer v.6 and windows media player 9 which I don't think she had before I formatted her hard drive. The Easy CD Creator things all work fine. I just cannot get DirectCD to work as it says "no supported drive". I've been at this since yesterday with no solution yet. Can anyone PLEASE help? The burner is a Yamaha 201040. Hopefully there is a simple download to make the software recognize more burners. Thank You Did you apply the Software Update's to get you to 5.3.5 . Make sure you get the right update Basic or Platinum. Updates http://www.roxio.com/enu/support/ecdc/software_updates.html You might also want to read this post http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...mp;hl=direct+cd especially about using Packet Writing (Direct CD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hifrmny Posted January 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Thank you so much for the fast replies. The computer has W98SE installed as the os, not xp. I am not trying to recover anything. She just wants the DirectCD back in because it's so easy to put pictures, etc. on a cd that way. I myself have lots of cds that I filled with programs, games, and pictures using DirectCD and they still all work fine after several years. I do not understand why the DirectCD will not work now in her system unless it is the wmp v.9 as you say. But the DirectCD works fine in my own sytem that has wmp v.9 and that's an older version of DirectCD. No, I have not tried the 5.3.5 update yet as it is about 20MB and I'm on dialup. Do you think just getting the "Drive-Up Patch 5.3.5.10v would make the DirectCD support her burner if you know please? I also have a cd here with Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum on it. Wouldn't that have a newer version of DirectCD? Thanks so much for your ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 Hello hifrmny, WMP9 shouldn't conflict with Direct CD since it doesn't use the same burning engine as Direct CD. The 535V DriveUp patch won't help you because (1) that has to be installed over the top of version 5.3.5.10 and (2) DriveUp patches affect CD Creator, not Direct CD. What version of Direct CD does she have installed? What is the 'Drive ID' of her burner? Right click My Computer, select properties, Device Manager. Find the DVD/CDROM icon, click on the + alongside to expand it and you will see an icon and text information for each CD/DVD device installed. This text is the ID String. Please quote it exactly. Easy CD and DVD Creator 6 has a similar program called "Drag to Disc". It isn't the same program, and even if it was it might not read discs made by other versions or on other machines. (It might, but isn't guaranteed to) If your daughter's Direct CD is updated to the same version it was before, it should read and write her discs. You said "But the DirectCD works fine in my own sytem that has wmp v.9 and that's an older version of DirectCD." What version of Direct CD is that, and can it read your daughter's discs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hifrmny Posted January 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Hello hifrmny, WMP9 shouldn't conflict with Direct CD since it doesn't use the same burning engine as Direct C Do you think (on her W98SE os) if WMP9 is installed, it will cause problems with Easy CD&DVD Creator 6 PLATINUM What is the 'Drive ID' of her burner? Right click My Computer, select properties, Device Manager. Find the DVD/CDROM icon, click on the + alongside to expand it and you will see an icon and text information for each CD/DVD device installed. This text is the ID String. Please quote it exactly. There is no text string shown there. Her burner is Yamaha 2200E with speeds 20/10/40. Easy CD and DVD Creator 6 has a similar program called "Drag to Disc". It isn't the same program, and even if it was it might not read discs made by other versions or on other machines. (It might, but isn't guaranteed to) If your daughter's Direct CD is updated to the same version it was before, it should read and write her discs. After doing total format of her computer and reinstalling W98SE, DirectCD gave a message before installing that there was no supported drive--I used the same exact cd to install this as when I put it on her computer (same one) years ago and it worked perfect then. You said "But the DirectCD works fine in my own sytem that has wmp v.9 and that's an older version of DirectCD." What version of Direct CD is that, and can it read your daughter's discs? The system I was referring to here is my older system which also has W98SE for the os. On that system, I have Easy CD Creator 4 with Adapted DirectCD v.3 (it might be v3.+ but I'm onmy XP machine now so can't check for sure) and I can put in cds made from my daughter's DirectCd and read them on my W98SE system through windows explorer. What I finally ended up doing was to start over again and FDISK, reformat, reinstall her W98SE. I tried again BEFORE updating the windows media player (just left it at v.6.1) and before updating to IExplorer6,and right at the beginning of install, I got that same message, No Supported Drives Found. So I did not install the Easy CD Creator 5. Instead I installed Easy CD&DVD Creator 6 Platinum. Everything went in perfectly, including that Drag to Disk. I then updated IExploer to v.6 and still all is fine. Now I'm worried after reading other posts here, where so many seemed to have problems after updating to WMP9 if I should install Windows Media Player 9 or not??? Thank You for all your help!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 This thread is getting very messy. I'll try to reply without quoting. =I don't think WMP9 will conflict with the version 6 engine. As far as I can make out the V6 engine was a whole lot different from the V5 (and earlier) engine. =There should be a text string where I said when you click on the + alongside the CD/DVD icon in Device Manager. It should be "YAMAHA CRW2200E". If that's the drive she has, its ID string skips in and out of both CD Creator and Direct CD. Direct CD is the one concerning you, so I'll check that program. -The CRW2200E appears in Direct CD 3.05, but not in earlier versions (2 or 3) of Direct CD. When you installed Easy CD Creator this time, did you also install the DCD update to 3.05? Check the version of Direct CD she is running. If it is lower than 3.05 she will need the 3.05 Direct CD updater dcd_v305_up.exe (1.7 MB; June 22, 2001) to get recognition for the CRW2200E drive in Direct CD. Unravelling the thread I see you've already given up on the old CD Creator and Direct CD, so I guess this is all now a moot point unless her ECD&DVD Creator 6 Drag-to-Disk cannot read and write her Direct CD discs. It might help those with CRW2200Es who don't have Version 6. Windows Media Player 9 shouldn't interfere, as mentioned above. If she has full use of her DCD discs please let me know. (Sometimes Drag-to-Disc proves backward compatible, sometimes not). If all those are now taken care of, we can now relax with a beverage of your choice. If there's something outstanding, please let me know when you reply about the compatability of Drag-to-Disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hifrmny Posted January 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Thank you for responding, Brendon. Yes, I had installed the update for DirectCD on her system after the first reformat but it still said no supported drive. Yes, I have now installed the newer v6 Platinum and all seems to be working fine. But, I've not yet updated the windows media player. I don't think I have any way to answer you about whether the DirectCD disks she made are compatible with her Drag-to-Disc I just installed because all the cds she made were closed off so nothing more can be written to them. But I can easily read them and copy things back off her discs she made with DirectCd onto her system now and on other systems as well. Maybe all the problems people were having after they installed wmp9 were because they were running XP whereas my daughter is running W98SE. I will check the version 6 section of this forum again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Thanks very much. If she can read the DCD discs that's fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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