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by rrosenth

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I have a NEW dell gx400 with a nec 7800 CDR and EZ CD creator 5. It won't burn a CDR when I drop and drag, but, curiously, it will burn an ISO, copy a CD to a CDR and it works with CDRWs. Any thoughts out there?
Thanks

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by otl

Because it is a CDR it may be trying to open a second session on the same CDR, because it is full it will not allow you to copy it.

You should be able to use CD copier to create a second CD.

by rrosenth

IT happenseven with a new unused CDR doesn't matter if it is a 74 min or an 80 min.
thanks anyway.

by xfeard

It's seem like a transfer problem.
Before making a CD, try to defrag your disk first and check for bad sector with Scandisk or another tools.
Second, check if the DMA for your HD and you CDRW is on. (Win9x: from Control Panel - System - Device Property ) this add more speed.

Good luck!!

by paul d. masley

What you are getting is "Buffer Overruns." I was experiencing the same thing.

First, increase your disk cache. Then slow down your burner speed somewhere in the area of 6X to 8x.

What is happening is that the burner is faster than the harddrive. When the burner runs out of data, it stops, therefore trashing the cd.

$10.00 to a donut, Dell, has the burner hooked up as a primary slave. Open up the box and take a looksee. If they have, get anoth ribbon cable, plug it into the secondary ide plug, change the setting on the burner from slave to master. Then reboot. Open up the bios and make sure that all of the drive settings are on "Auto."

Last thing, enter your device manage and disable DMA on the burner. It does not need it. Leave the DMA setting on for the harddrive.

Good luck,

Paul.

by mike (from canada)

Here is my story:

I recently bought a CD-RW drive (8x4x32) For my 486 (YES a 486, dont go nuts), and it came with Prassi Primo CD. When I used the software, there were two problems. One, The program is slow, and 2, the program will not create CD's bigger than 2MB yet it is the full version!!!

Just goes to show how many bugs there are in these programs :P

So I went on the internet and looked for a good CD Recording tool and found an excellent one that WORKS on a 486!!! It is called CDRWIN which can be located at http://www.goldenhawk.com

I recommend that you download CDRWIN and begin backing up your files! It even supports on-the-fly recording.

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