Acer CRW1032A in Windows 2000
This is a discussion about Acer CRW1032A in Windows 2000 in the Windows Hardware category; I bought the above-mentioned drive really really cheap and i hope my problems aren't a signal as to why it was so cheap. The drive came wiht Adaptec EZCDC 4. 02 (i think thats the right version number.
I bought the above-mentioned drive really really cheap and i hope my problems aren't a signal as to why it was so cheap.
The drive came wiht Adaptec EZCDC 4.02 (i think thats the right version number.. the one that works for win2k) so i figured it'd be all fine, right? Well i checked adaptec's site (or whatever the new company is called that does their cdrw software) and its not listed as a compatible drive. Then i checked Nero's site (cuz i prefer Nero anyway) and its not listed there either. Its not listed on CDRWin's site either.
But i decided to continue trying anyway.
I got the software installed, and got the ASPI layer stuff in there the same as i had with my old drive. Nero and Adaptec both recognize the drive as a CD-Writer, so i figured that was good enough. But no.
DirectCD won't format CDRW discs. Nero gets Disc Write errors when i try to burn anything. EZCDC gets through enough to coaster-ize my disc and then fails everytime on CDRs. I _can_ however put in a CDRW disc and use it like a regular CDR in EZCDC and it works fine as far as i could tell.
Any ideas? Anyone got this drive and had it work fine? Anything would be appreciated, thanks.
The drive came wiht Adaptec EZCDC 4.02 (i think thats the right version number.. the one that works for win2k) so i figured it'd be all fine, right? Well i checked adaptec's site (or whatever the new company is called that does their cdrw software) and its not listed as a compatible drive. Then i checked Nero's site (cuz i prefer Nero anyway) and its not listed there either. Its not listed on CDRWin's site either.
But i decided to continue trying anyway.
I got the software installed, and got the ASPI layer stuff in there the same as i had with my old drive. Nero and Adaptec both recognize the drive as a CD-Writer, so i figured that was good enough. But no.
DirectCD won't format CDRW discs. Nero gets Disc Write errors when i try to burn anything. EZCDC gets through enough to coaster-ize my disc and then fails everytime on CDRs. I _can_ however put in a CDRW disc and use it like a regular CDR in EZCDC and it works fine as far as i could tell.
Any ideas? Anyone got this drive and had it work fine? Anything would be appreciated, thanks.
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i have an Acer CRW8432IA and i have the same software as you. so far i have created 2 CDs one data the other a audio and haven't encounted any problems yet on win2k. haven't actually tried using my rewrite compatibilities but i think it would work.
but the problem i have is that win98 recognises the drive but it crashes when i try opening 'my computer' or windows explorer as i was dual booting win98 and win2k.
but the problem i have is that win98 recognises the drive but it crashes when i try opening 'my computer' or windows explorer as i was dual booting win98 and win2k.
