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EXTERNAL CD-BURNER WON'T WORK

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by daddydold52

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I'M TRYING TO INSTALL A BACKPACK 4X EXTERNAL BURNER TO A DELL LATITUDE CPi NOTEBOOK,USING THE PARALLEL PORT.THE NOTEBOOK IS RUNNING WINDOWS NT 4.0.AFTER INSTALLING THE BACKPACK SOFTWARE,AND UPDATING THE ASPI32.EXE TO THE LATEST LEVEL,I FIRED UP THE BURNER SOFTWARE, WHICH IS EASY CD CREATOR 4.0. WHEN I TRIED TO BURN A SMALL FILE AS A TEST,THE BURNER EJECTS THE CD,TELLING ME THERE IS NO CD IN THE DRIVE,EVEN THOUGH THERE IS. I'VE TRIED SEVERAL DIFFERENT BRANDS OF CD-R'S,WITH NO HELP. I'VE ALSO FLASHED THE BIOS ON THE NOTEBOOK TO THE LATEST LEVEL, STILL NO HELP. WHAT ELSE CAN I CHECK?

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by legj1

I would honestly setup that BACKPACK on a different pc. Perhaps one running 98 or 2000 would work best. If the same problem arises, I would contact the manufacturer. You may have a faulty device. People lose a lot of hair trying to configure something that is simply broken/faulty. It may not be, but I would troubleshoot the device using another PC. Good luck!

by legj1

Also, if NT found the device and the siftware is loaded...then the rest should be simple. This is the reason for my conclusion. If no drive is listed (D: or E: or whatever your new removable disk drive is) then this would point to an installation failure. But if the drive is showing up and the software is loaded...you should be in business! See ya!

by randem

I have had this same type of problem with a few different burners. The only thing that has worked persistantly is to dload adaptec cd program and run from it. With the most recent, if I use the hp prog that came with it I can only wrtie to RW cd's. But adaptec seems to work if the burner is fine.
Good luck and hope this helps:)

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