Re: Sigh!New CDWriter not recognised
 

good call, it works for me, too, although I have to say that I have only been able to get the InCD module to work since they recently released the latest version.

As InCD is the module which deals with rewritable CD's & it looks like that is what Incog is wanting to use, I would definitely check out the demo, before buying (mine came as OEM with my burner).

Also I believe you can get problems if 2 lots of burner software are installed, so Incog, if you are going to try Nero, you will probably need to uninstall the Iomega supplied software, first.

What a pain eh :(

Re: Sigh!New CDWriter not recognised
 

Though they can be bought for less.

Ebuyer USB 2.0 4 Port PCI card £7.04

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=32620

4 Port USB 2.0 PCI Card - 3 External & 1 Internal
£7.99 inc VAT (£6.80 ex VAT)
24 in stock now

http://www.dabs.com/uk/Search2/Produ...rase=usb%20pci

Plugging this sort of thing into a PC with Windows XP installed is not something you should worry about, the OS is 98% likely to find and configure the new card without you needing to do much more than stick the Windows, or supplied CD into the machine.

Re: Sigh!New CDWriter not recognised
 

i have heard of that problem but not suffered with it myself :erm: :D

Re: Sigh!New CDWriter not recognised
 

I heard that sometimes the USB ports built into motherboards are flakey - cheap parts. Not sure if it's true or not, but my HP printer has been happier on the 2 port USB card I bought.

Re: Sigh!New CDWriter not recognised
 

What software did you get with it?

You can get an internal usb 2 pci card (Who's gonna fit it? - come up to sunny bedfordshire if you don't want to - I'd still do it for ya :))

You haven't got away from roxio :(

Nero is the best (in my opinion) - So i'd try a demo of that.

Re: Sigh!New CDWriter not recognised
 

Well I decided to try a different brand of disc.Bah! It won't use my brand new Imation blank discs.I had to reformat a scratched old Verbatim disc.This worked just fine.

I really can't take this.Another choosy CDRW! :rolleyes:

Both exactly the same specs but there you are.

Frankly I've had just about as much as I can take from uppity software and hardware. :mad:

I still have to sort out the USB business as well.I didn't understand one word of any of the suggestions I'm afraid being a total muppet at this stuff. :(

Anyway thank you for everyone's forbearance.

Re: Sigh!New CDWriter not recognised
 

Although i'm not saying you SHOULD get one from argos...

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...oductId=104139

This is what you need to upgrade your usb on your computer.

Re: Sigh!New CDWriter not recognised
 

I'm going to go to the nice little independent computer shop where they built my son's PC and get some help.I don't mind getting advice from my son's 16 year old friend James who works there because he can be trusted not to BS me unlike the bigger companies like PC World or Dixons. ;)

Thanks for all the help and suggestions from everyone and if I haven't repped you yet I will get back to you. :kiss: