I attempted to use my CDR-W (BusLink 52x24x52) this morning for my weekend
backups when I noticed that the system tray icon for my DirectCD had a red
crossbarred circle on it.  Calling up my Roxio CDCreator Plus produced an
error stating:  "No supported drive present."  What's weird about this is
that the burner can recognized and read my last week's backup CDs (even
printed a .doc file from it),  but will not record files or burn CD today.
The CDR (AOpen, 52X) played my favorite music CD no problem.  I have not
done a full test yet but I have this eerie  feeling that the recording or
burning part of this CDR-W is gone?  Kaput?

I have been using Roxio's DiretCD/CD Creator Plus for quite some time now
and never had any problem with it until today. The Device Manager showed
both CD & Burner without any telltale sign of a problem, conflicts, etc.  I
will probably uninstall and re-install the program to see if this will solve
the problem.  I am just curious as to why all of a sudden this program
decided to just quit working and not recognize the CDR/W components.  Virus
check (AVG), SpywareGuard, SpywareBlaster, HijackThis and ZA all gave my
system a clean bill of health.  Has anyone else out there experienced this
CDCreator problem before?  Is this a sign of a hardware failure?  Thanks for
any feedback.

AMD XP 2500+, 1Gig RAM, WinXP-Home, 128MB GeForceAGP video, CDR, CDR-W and a
FDD (3.5").

Emie DelRosario


TYPO... is when I can't speel a word.

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