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HP CD Writer 8290e - Audio CD ?

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by pramodpatil 1 view

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I have HP 8290e (External) CD writer on win2k pro system. Using HP RecordNow software and 700MB/80MB size CDR. All software/Driver versions are latest.

Issues :
1. Can record audio CD but not able to play in any other cd drive or Stereo systemother then HP CD Drive. (700 MB CDs) (Only HP CD Writer recognizes the created CD as Audio CD)

2. If I use 650MB/74 Min CDR , CDs can be played in all the systems / cd drives but does not recognize 1st track. Need to manually forward to the 2nd track and thereafter cd operation is normal "Audio CD".

3. Tried using Nero , Nero does not actually writes on the disc. It writes on to virtual drive or create some image file. Also even my CD writer is connected , when I go to Menu Recorder - Choose Recorder , I only see Image Recorder - Adapter : Virtual device . I do not see my CD writer.

Any suggestion / solution / Drivers are highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for all your help.

-Pramod

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by thechas

Many CD players, and some older CD-ROM drives cannot read the 700MB 80 minute CDs.
Their lasers cannot read the finer track of the higher capacity disk.

As to recording, are you using track at once, or disk at once setting?
Especially for audioCDs, you should use disc at once.
You should also close the CD. This will give you the best compatability with older drives.

For Nero to function, you may need to completely uninstall the HP software.
Nero uses some specific driver and registry settings, and may not function with any other CD recorder software on the PC.

Chas

by pramodpatil

After removing all the softwares , I re-installed nero , but still the CD Writer is undetected. But if I revert back to old version of nero it doed detect the CD Writer along with HP writer software.

Any other suggestions ??

by pramodpatil

Thanks for your suggestion. I copied the file from the website , but still my CD Writer is not detected by Nero (Latest Version). I had to revert back to 5.8.0.3 version.

How to make new version work with the above DLL??

Thanks,

-Pramod

by pramodpatil

For the benifit of others , All latest versions of Nero did not worked for me. 5.0.8.3 version resolved all of above mentioned issues.

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