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More info?)
Forrest,
Try disabling the CD from XP. Go to START > MY COMPUTER>right click
the drive>left click properties>select the Recording tab and then
uncheck Enable CD recording. XP wants to write to the CD with it's own
driver and maybe that is your problem. Again only a guess.
TonySper
"ForestSpirit" <seamaid24-graphics@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I erred on my replies in this thread. I have been confusing my
computer with
Scott's in my answers, and now I am totally lost. Maybe I should just
start
over.
One of us did an upgrade from ME to XP and left all drives as FAT32
(Scott).
The other (me) did a clean install of XP after formatting Drive C as
NTFS to
get rid of ME and left the other hard drive as FAT32.We both have the
same
burner (Samsung SM-352B CDRW+DVDROM) in our computers. We both have
all
Windows Updates installed.
Computer #1 (mine)
Clean install of XP Pro SP1, Updated to SP2
NTFS System Drive, FAT32 Data Drive
Abit AS8 Mainboard with Intel 865PE chipset
I have not installed Nero of any version yet, so I do not know if 5.5
will
work or not on my machine. I was hoping to get Scott's problem
resolved
before trying to install any version of Nero on my machine.
Computer #2 (Scott)
Upgrade install XP Pro SP1 from Me, Updated to SP2
FAT32 all hard drives
QDI Mainboard (not sure of model) with SiS chipset
He has Nero 5.5.10.56. He has gone through several CD-Rs trying to
burn a CD
and keeps getting errors that he needs to have a blank CD-R or CD-RW
or he
gets I/O errors that his drive is not available. He's beginning to
suspect
something is wrong with his burner. I'm not sure that's the case. His
burner
worked fine in Windows Me.
He is having conflicts with his DVD software in his DVDRAM drive also
since
he upgraded to XP. Every time he opens that Mediostream software, he
has to
remove his CD-DVD drives from Device Manager, reboot, and let Windows
autodetect them again. I told him to look for an updated version of
Mediostream or not use it at all. He doesn't have a different
mainboard to
swap in, and Windows XP will not handle hardware changes very well if
he
ever does need to get a different model mainboard with a different
chipset.
He would basically have to format the hard drive and start from
scratch,
from what I understand, because XP would not boot (even if he cleared
CMOS)
when XP sees that the system board and chipset are different. Is that
true?
There is another thread in this forum about someone having trouble
getting
Nero to burn CDs. That person disabled a local internal cd burning
service
and then Nero worked fine for him. I do not know what that setting is
or
where it is. I posted to ask exactly what they disabled, but have not
heard
a reply. Could this be Scott's problem? Will I have to disable
internal cd
burning service on my computer also?
Now Scott has a different mainboard than I do with a different
chipset. So
maybe I won't have to disable that setting on mine. I do not know
whether to
install Nero 5.5 on my machine or Nero 6. Please advise what you
recommend
Scott do and what you recommend I do, as far as Nero and CD burning
are
concerned.
Very sorry for the confusion. I hope this clears things up a bit.
ForestSpirit
"TonySper" <tsperduti@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Forrest,
Nero 5.5.10.56 works with XP, over here, no problem. You may have
other problems. This is not a free copy you need to have the express
version before you can update it.
TonySper
"ForestSpirit" <seamaid24-graphics@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Scott did. He tried Nero 5.5 updated to latest version. He has XP SP2
and
keeps getting I/O errors and other errors with it. The Nero site
mentions
6.3.1.20 or 6.3.1.25 are the minimum we need for XP SP2 compatibility.
"Joan Archer" <joanarcher@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Nero 5.5.10.56 works with XP, have you tried that version.
Joan
ForestSpirit wrote:
> Nero 5.5 OEM does not work correctly on WinXP Pro SP1 or SP2 (Scott
> has
SP2.
> I have SP1.) It causes errors. We tried copying a CD and kept
> getting
errors
> that a CD-R or CD-RW was required, when a blank CD-R was in the
> drive. We
> verified the source and destination drives were correct. We tried
> other
> blank media. Same errors. Our CD-RW/DVDROM drive is a Samsung
> SM-352B,
which
> is on the XP compatibility list. All Windows Updates have been
> installed
> (except SP2, WMP10, and Net Framework 1.1 on my machine).
>
> What *minimum* version of Nero 6 do we need for WinXP compatibility?
>
> I heard the minimum version was 6.3.1.25 (which is the latest Nero 6
version
> before 6.6 came out). Is that still true, or is 6.6 now the minimum
> compatible version? We don't necessarily need the latest version,
> just one
> that will work. That's why I asked what minimum version will be
> compatible
> with XP.
>
>
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