CD Burning Probs

[Vakas]

Hi! I am using Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum under Windows XP Home. I am using a Samsung SW-216B (16x10x32) CD-RW drive. When I want to make a music CD using Music CD project I add all my tracks it copies the first track then the drive just goes mad and starts spinning fast and stops after a while.

I then get the following error: E80041925 Track Writer error - Command retry failed - [T7118].

Anyone know how I can resolve this issue it's really getting to me now and i've already wasted a few blanks CD's as I keep ending up with coasters.

Thanks

[NooNoo]

Have you been to www.roxio.com for the XP patches?

[King Grover]

have you tried burning at a slower speed?


either that or there is a buffer setting for the actual drive that can be changed somewhere. I'm not sure exactly where or how to cahnge that, but I'm sure that somebody here does.

[Tushar]

Have you disabled the native WinXP CD burning support ? I made a couple of coasters in XP with the very same Samsung drive before I really did got to the basic problem.

Here is the key which does the trick :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoCDBurning

Use with care though, you are working on the registry. Holds good with XPPro. Not for XPHome.

Also try and download fimware Q002 available at Samsung page.

[Vakas]

Yes I have download all the XP updates for Easy CD Creator which are the 5.1 update and the drive update.

I have disabled the native CD buring support in XP I have done this by disable the IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service.

I have not tried recording at a lower speed but I have tried disableing Buffer Underun protection but have had no luck.

I have already updated the drives firmware to Q002 which I now think was a mistake because all was fine befroe I updated well i havn't coppied anything for a while so i'm not entirley sure it has got something to do with the firmware. But I have not changed any other settings anywhere.

Thanks

[kato2274]

to verify that it is not a hardware issue, download the trial version of NERO and give it a go. If it works, then you are looking at a software problem with Roxio and XP if it doesn't work with nero you could be dealing with a hardware issue

[clauded]

i had the exact same problem after upgrading the firmware for a aopen 20x10x40,so i flashed it back with the older firmware and evrything is fine now
clauded

[Vakas]

Hi! the previous firmware version I had for my drive was Q001 but I have looked on the Samsung website but cannot find this firmware version the only ones that are there are Q002 (the one I currently have) and Q000.

You guys got any ides where I can find a firmware version Q001.

Thanks

[Vakas]

Hi! guys it's alright I found the firmware version I was looking for. I flashed the drive back to the previous firmware version Q001 and now all seem to be well again

But I am disapointed that my DVD has died out but u can get a lite-on DVD fir around £30 that should be alright what do you guys theink? or should i go for a different one.

Tbanks

[NooNoo]

From the amount of problems people seem to have with cheap dvd/cdrw combo's - I would be tempted to get two separate beasts...

[Garak]

Ditto!!

[Vakas]

Yeah I am using two seperate drives now I have used DVD/CD-RW combo drives in the past but had too many problems.

Going to look round for some new drives and make a comparison and see which ones I think are best.

Thanks

[Garak]

Originally posted by Vakas
Yeah I am using two seperate drives now I have used DVD/CD-RW combo drives in the past but had too many problems.

Going to look round for some new drives and make a comparison and see which ones I think are best.

Thanks

Liteon's are really good in my opinions nice bugest writer.

Good luck.