Did you upgrade the firmware to 3.01, which is available here:
http://www.hp.com/cposupport/information_storage/software/7200-301.exe.html
It says on the HP website that before upgrading to Windows 2000, you need
version 3.01 of the firmware for that drive.
Matthew Ballard
Computer Consultant

At 09:51 PM 7/1/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>I have used my HP 7200i CD writer. It had worked ok before, but has been
>acting up recently. It may be related to my switching to Windows 2000, but
>now it records on rewritable media ok, but not to CDR. I tried Maxell CD-R74
>and Memorex CD-R media with same results. The software is Adaptec EZ-CD
>Creator version 4.02. When I try to copy a CD, there is a failure reported
>saying something about the test area being full - the help says that there
>is a test area for calibration of the recorder and that this area is bad or
>full.

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