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EasyCD 4 won't recognise drive

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by blackcurrant

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Hi

My machine runs Win98 and has Easy CD creator v. 4.01 installed. The writable drive is a Yahama CRW4261t, and has been installed in the machine for about three years.

Recently, I began to have problems recording data onto CDs. This began a few weeks ago. I can read and open files from the drive via My Computer and can open files on CDs from within applications with no problem.

I suspected the Easy Cd.. needed reinstalling. I uninstalled, then reinstalled. When I opened a saved CD layout and clicked the Create CD icon on the toolbar after reinstalling, an error message poped up: There are no supported CD recorders available.

I checked Device Manager and discovered that although the device was reported as working, the model number was not correct. This must have changed after upgrading my system to Win95. Searching for a Win98 driver for this device has been unsuccessfull, and it seems likely that the model specified in DM (CRW842E) is a "best fit".

Next I went to Roxio's site and have downloaded the updates which upgrade v4.01 to 4.02 and v4.02 to 4.05. When I try to run the first of these (updating 4.01 to 4.02), I receive an error message: Old file does not exist. I have searched Roxio's site for information onthese error messages but can't find anything.

Has anyone had the same or similar problem? Any help will be very much appreciated.

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by bobho

You might need the latest firmware download for the recorder. Per Yamaha there are no supplied drivers with the drive, they are installed by windows. However the firmware must be upgraded with ezcd ver 3 and above. Here's a link to the firmware update page:

http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/computer/firmware.html

Also useful is yamaha's faq page. Here's a link to that:

http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/computer/faq3.html#Writing%20Software/CRW4260

Enjoy,

DrBob:>)

by blackcurrant

Hi DrBob, thanks for answering. The solution was to uninstall, then reinstall Easy CD Creator four times, running the update each time. Eventually it succeeded. The update must have contained the details for the changed driver that was not held by the original. The install procedure must have not been failing at some point during the earlier installations.

by thechas

My best guess on the error when updating Roxio, is that a "system" file is already a newer version of the file the update is attempting to replace.

Most software uninstalls DO NOT remove files that are placed in the C:\windows folder and sub-folders.

As to your problems, the first step that I would take would be to update the IDE driver for the motherboard.
Check out the tools at www.motherboards.org
or www.wimsbios.com
for help identifying your motherboard.

Then, try installing theROXIO updates again.
Unless you can determine the file name, it will be dificult to remove just the 1 or 2 files that the update is looking for.

Chas

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