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Sonic DVD and Cd Burner Dell XPS 400 Windows XP Office
I am having so many problems , it is about to drive me nuts, I have this new PC , have been almost 3 weeks trying to figure this Sonic out, no luck, I cannot get it to burn a DVD or copy, when I go to Device manager it has it there , the properties has Sony CD-RW + DVD/CD-R for drive E location 1, the DVD Drive, which is suppose to be drive D has Sony DVD-Rom and DVD/CD-R, location 0, I can get it to work on some Cd's , all the new ones have to be formatted if I don't select DLA or it won't let me use them, then when I do about 10 photos for E-bay, which are not large photo's, they are cropped etc. the CD is full, I am using a CD-R 16X-80 min. 700MB CD and also tried it with the same space on a CD-RW, I don't understand how it can be full that fast, normally I use 1 CD for a year to store all of my E-bay photos on and it is still not full. I use the same kind of CD the 700MB for the whole year, what am I doing wrong. This Sonic is the worst and hardest program I have ever used , I am not an expert on computers, but do know a lot about them and have never had so much trouble in my life. Why do you have to use DLA?
The Sonic version I have is 2.0.0, LEv7 if that means anything.
I have went and installed the Power DVD program.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
osprey4
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January 7th, 2006 19:00
DLA is a separate program from Sonic Recordnow or whatever your normal program is. You can uninstall DLA completely in Add/Remove progams. Even the regular Windows CD burning wizard is better than DLA, IMHO.
What brand of media are you using? You said 16x CD-Rs? I mean just about any store has 40-50x CD-Rs these days.
territrimble
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January 7th, 2006 20:00
Skybird
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January 7th, 2006 21:00
by DirectCD but will not write to them. What you are up against is that
the packet writing programs (DLA and DirectCD) are not interchangable.
That leaves you two choices:
You need to install Roxio (versions 6, 7, 7.5 or 8) on your Dell system
and do as you have always done or learn to use DLA and convert your old
discs to DLA by receating them.
Skybird
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January 7th, 2006 21:00
Did you use DirectCD (formatted)?
territrimble
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January 7th, 2006 21:00
territrimble
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January 7th, 2006 23:00
Jim Hardin
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January 8th, 2006 11:00
If you format the media with Sonic's DLA it will be interchangeable with Roxio's DirectCD. Provided you don't close the media.
It won't work the other way around though.
This will also be easier that trying to coach a program (Roxio V5) that was dropped 3 years ago to run on a new XP machine!
territrimble
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January 8th, 2006 14:00
Skybird
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January 8th, 2006 16:00
Post the Brand and Model of the drives.
territrimble
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January 8th, 2006 17:00
Ok in the Device manager it has, Sony CD-RW CRX217E. That is the first one.
The next one has, SONY DVD-ROM DDU1615.
Thanks for your help.
territrimble
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January 8th, 2006 17:00
Skybird
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January 8th, 2006 17:00
CRX217E 48X CDRW Drive can read and write CD and CDRW media only.
User's Guide is here .............
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/P89087/en/index.htm
The SONY DDU1615 16X H/H DVD-ROM Drive is capable of reading DVD and
CD media only. It cannot burn anything. User's Guide is here .........
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/stor%2Dsys/P88299/en/index.htm
Skybird
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January 8th, 2006 18:00
on the computer. If you obtain a DVD burner, you will want to replace
the CDRW drive. A DVD burner does everything. A good place to obtain
a DVD burner is online at www.newegg.com . The favored brands of this
forum is Plextor, Pioneer and the retail NEC drives.
territrimble
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January 8th, 2006 18:00