Re: The W-XP burner = S. Heenan

[~ Free Spirit ~]

"S.Heenan" > wrote in message
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> ~ Free Spirit ~ wrote:
> > "John A" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> EZCDC V5 & V6 work on XP provided you download the latest updates
> >> from Roxio
> > ===========================
> > I have the older version BEFORE Roxio took it over. I think it's 4.5.
> > Roxio, in it's greed, cut us all off from any updates. In fact I
> > received an e-mail from them to upgrade for $99.00 shortly after they
> > bought out Adaptec.
>
> Both Roxio EXCD 5 and 6 have issues with Windows XP, even when patched.
Look
> in to Nero or another product.
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Thanks for the advice and warning. We were going to pick it up within the
next few weeks. I'll go with Nero. My husband has it on his PC and it's
worked flawlessly for the past 3 years. I need something BETTER than HP
provided. The built-in XP burner never got past the part where it says to
insert the CD. I've decided when we get this PC back from HP I'm going to
replace the crappy cheapo CD-R/RW drive with a good one.
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[S.Heenan]

~ Free Spirit ~ wrote:
> Thanks for the advice and warning. We were going to pick it up
> within the next few weeks. I'll go with Nero. My husband has it on
> his PC and it's worked flawlessly for the past 3 years. I need
> something BETTER than HP provided. The built-in XP burner never got
> past the part where it says to insert the CD. I've decided when we
> get this PC back from HP I'm going to replace the crappy cheapo
> CD-R/RW drive with a good one.

If you decide to go that route, Lite-On makes good, inexpensive optical
drives. A CD burner ~ $40US DVD burner~ $115US They ship with an OEM
version of Nero6.

[~ Free Spirit ~]

"S.Heenan" > wrote in message
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> ~ Free Spirit ~ wrote:
I've decided when we
> > get this PC back from HP I'm going to replace the crappy cheapo
> > CD-R/RW drive with a good one.
>
> If you decide to go that route, Lite-On makes good, inexpensive optical
> drives. A CD burner ~ $40US DVD burner~ $115US They ship with an OEM
> version of Nero6.
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Do they have that "under-run" feature do you know? $40 sounds awfully
cheap. I would like my next burner to have that feature and burn a little
faster than this poor quality one. But then we (us and the HP techs)
don't know why I'm getting buffer underuns with a 2.60 Ghz CPU and nothing
else running when I burn CDs. I keep getting a error saying the PC can't
keep up with the burner. That's absurd.

Note: the old HP with a 900 Mhz processor never once, that we can recall,
had a buffer underrrun and I did hundreds of both audio and data backups
with it over the years.

I don't need DVD anything since we have no interest in that. ;-)

FS.......

[Jim Harkins]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 20:31:57 -0600, "~ Free Spirit ~"
> wrote:


>==========================
>Do they have that "under-run" feature do you know? $40 sounds awfully
>cheap. I would like my next burner to have that feature and burn a little
>faster than this poor quality one.

US$40 isn't too cheap these days. I just paid $70 for a known-name
(Sony) CD-RW drive, but the $20 rebate brought the price down to $50.
I suppose if I'd waited another month or so, the p[rice would have
been even less...
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