Right I've had it with Iomega's Hotburn Pro

It's a pile of bleeping,bleepbleepbleep and is about as much use as a bleeping chocolate condom..

Now can anyone recommend summat that might actually work with my Iomega CDRW?
It comes to something when the software issued with a CDRW and produced by the maker of one's CDRW doesn't actually work and can't be updated because it is out of date by one year...and one has to pay full price to upgrade from one software that doesn't work with the hope that the upgrade will...I don't think so...

Frankly I had less problems with my old HP CDRW and only changed it because I couldn't get drivers to work with XP.The Roxio software was much more user friendly than Hotburn too.

Would Nero work with Iomega?

[marky]

i think it would ive installed it on all our pcs

Nero is the way to go CDRW (I picked this problem as you mentioned it in pet hates )formating is a thing of the past pretty much.I remember the day when you had to let roxio format a CDRW and it take 20 minutes before you could use it (HP external 2x 2x 4x usb1)

Nero does it all on the fly now,select files to write and it just writes

What drivers did you need for the HP ?? asapi? or maybe just updating the firmware would sort it?

Ive never had a problem running any optical drive on xp and ive reclaimed some old bobbins for my refurbs

Well I'm thinking about it..If I see a copy while I'm out today I'll buy it.In the meantime I've sent off for a 1GB USB memory stick from Novatech for £38.Thi s way I can get my son to burn my stuff to DVD on his PC.I think I'm going to consider getting an internal DVD RW later in the year.

www.svp.co.uk pioneer 109 for £29.99 I can source you the firmaware that makes this a top machine or theres the nec for the same price,May be worth an invest.They also do nero for a few quid too and there dvd's and cds are well cheap

Hmm!I've downloaded the Nero demo and I'm still having the same problems.The main one is that my CDRW drive is not allowing me to delete files from my original CDRW discs.Why? it keeps saying that they are write only files but when I try to change the system I get a message 'files on this CD-Rom are read only.Are you sure you want to delete it?'

When I click ok I get the following cannot delete.....you cannot copy or move files over to this CD-ROM Drive.
In fact it is behaving like an ordinary CD drive.Can anyone help me sort this mess out?

I can't even reinstall Hotburn now because my son who trying to help uninstall it apparently couldn't do it through add remove and just went into the system and deleted it.Now the original disc refuses to install it because it reckons it's still on the system somewhere.It's still in the add remove program as well.

Just worked out how to use the onboard OS provided CD burning software.Apart from the inability to remove individual files without erasing all the files it knocks spots off Hotburn and Nero...It's so fast.That and I discovered son had connected the USB to USB 1 port instead of the USB ports I had installed last summer...He's supposed to know more than me about all this stuff..he's more useless than me....

You lot must think I'm really,really dumb.

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Just worked out how to use the onboard OS provided CD burning software.Apart from the inability to remove individual files without erasing all the files it knocks spots off Hotburn and Nero...It's so fast.That and I discovered son had connected the USB to USB 1 port instead of the USB ports I had installed last summer...He's supposed to know more than me about all this stuff..he's more useless than me....

You lot must think I'm really,really dumb.

I just heard a sound kinda like a ping sound... oh thats right its the penny dropping
Have you tried nero since changing to usb2? Usb 1 bus speed is just to slow max burn speed on a drive would be around 4.I doubt any buffer underrun would work over a usb1 either

Glad your sorted now with windows burning although I always found this slow as it messes with files before it writes them

will it work in nero if you erase in windows?

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

I just heard a sound kinda like a ping sound... oh thats right its the penny dropping
Have you tried nero since changing to usb2? Usb 1 bus speed is just to slow max burn speed on a drive would be around 4.I doubt any buffer underrun would work over a usb1 either

Glad your sorted now with windows burning although I always found this slow as it messes with files before it writes them

will it work in nero if you erase in windows?

Not a problem as it's a lot quicker than Nero that can't seem to do it at all.It took 3 hours to achieve 3% this morning.


Hmmm! that's a point..However the reason I can't delete individual files is because they are all write only and I can't seem to alter this.It used to work under ME though.I wonder why I can't do it with XP?Maybe that's one for Paul to answer.