Jeff:
I was hopeful when I saw you suggestion about the UDF reader but after
trying it out, the WIN98 machine still refused to recognize that anything
usable was in the drive - in this case, both CD/Rs or CD/RWs.

Perhaps it is that the drive is just too damned old but I thought that a 20x
speed would still be generally current.

Oh well.

Larry

by the way, Roxio has changed the download URL to:

http://www.roxio.com/en/support/roxio_support/ecdc/ecdc_software_updatesv4.j
html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jess Brazil" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Why won't my CD-ROM read a CD/RW?


> >(Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum). For the backed up file
> > data, the CD/Rs and CD/RWs were formatted first before the data was
> written
> > to it using Easy CD Creator. The data was written to it by Windows
> Explorer.
>
> > It would however recognize both file data and MP3 music -- if they were
> made
> > under the auspices of the "Make a Data CD project" option of Easy CD
> > Creator. In Roxio's terminology, ". . . a data CD is ideal (having
the...
>
> You might need to install a UDF Volume Reader on the new win98 machice.
Data
> on the CD/RWs was most probably written using a packet writing software
> (DirectCD bundled with Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum). The CD/RW is treated
as
> a "big" diskette where data can be simply dragged and dropped onto the
CD/RW
> using Windows Explorer.
>
> Check out
>
http://www.roxio.com/en/support/roxio_support/ecdc/ecdc_software_updatesv4.j
> html
> Listed below is part of the link listed above...
>
> UDF VOLUME READER

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