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by rjit

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We have just received new 40x and 48x plextor CDRW's to install and the first few machines(P 1.4, Asus mb, win2K) were unable to read discs. Bios picks up drives ok, EZ-Cd creator gives error 'no CD-R present' when you try a copy disc.
Older 24x drives work fine. UDMA is enabled in Bios, plextor site says Win2K supplies drivers, none are available for download for 2000, any ideas?

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by thechas

Since these are 'new' drives, you will need to get the latest drive files from Roxio to have Easy CD Creator function with the drives.

Support for new drives is one of the main reasons for CD software updates.
If you have Easy CD version 3 or 4,you may have to upgrade to version 5 to support these new drives.

Plextor is correct that you do not need a driver for ANY CD drive under Windows (except 3.11 and older).
The driver that comes with many CD drives is for DOS mode only.
What you may need, is and update to the IDE bus-master driver from ASUS.

Did you remove the old drives from device manager before installing the new drives?
If not, Windows may still be looking for the old drives.

You should also check Autoexec.bat, and config.sys in-case someone installed the DOS driver for the old drives.

One trick that often works in W2K, is to delete the IDE controllers from device manager. (all 3)
Re-boot, and Windows usually re-installs everything properly, and your CD drive is now properly recognized.

Chas

by rjit

Hi Chas, thanks for the reply,
I did get one machine to pick up the new drives with reloading the IDE controller drivers. We have been using the EZ 5.1 upgrade. Have a few more to update next week, hopefully it will also work, thanks again.

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