Third_Man99

I said "5.02b to 5.1", not "5.2 to 5.1." Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Hi. I've just bought a new HP Pavilion 520c with Windows XP HomeEdition and two intenal CD-RW drives preinstalled. I tried to install the latest EasyCD Creator into the system, but failed. Here's what happened: 1) First, I installed EasyCD Creator 5.02b. During the installation, I was prompted that "the driver is not supported. do you want to install DirectCD?" I replied YES. 2) Next, I applied the v.5.1 upgrade for WindowsXP. It seemed successful. 3) I rebooted the computer 4) Surprise! Both of CD drives had disappeared from "My Computer." I checked Device Manager, and found out that the installer had disabled the previous CD drivers (the ones that came with the preinstalled XP), but didn't install any new driver as a replacement. Hence, no CD drivers are running, and I can't even see the CD-ROM icons. My speculation: As of yet, DirectCD doesn't support the CD-RW drives that come with a new HP Pavilion. Does anybody have a suggestion?

Hi. I've actually already tried to install the latest EasyCDCreator 5 (with DirectCD and WinXP patch), but DirectCD didn't get installed properly. I'll create another thread regarding this problem, since this is a different issue.

Hi, thanks for the reply. If you mean by "closing the discs" as finalizing the discs into the standard format, I've done that already for all my CDs. Of course, it's still possible that the "standard format" as understood by DirectCD is somehow not compatible with the format expected by the new HP CD-driver.

Hi. I've just bought a new HP Pavilion 520c with WindowsXP HomeEdition installed. The system comes with two CD-ROM drives (one CD-RW, the other DVD-ROM), both of which are controlled by the default driver "HP CD-Write cd16f." For some reason, both drives can't read my old CD-ROMs, which I burnt with DirectCD on my old PC (Win98SE) over the past two years. As soon as I try to open the CD folder, the system displays the error "the disk structure is corrupted and unreadable." But I'm pretty sure the CDs are OK, because I still can read them fine od my old PC. It seems that it's some kind of the driver incompatibility. Does anybody have any ideas? I'm also having trouble with installing the latest DirectCD (with the XP patch) into my HP system. DirectCD somehow disable the existing CD-ROM driver, but doesn't install any new driver, so I can no longer use it.