I have a Toshiba Satellite 1800-314 laptop, and it's built-in CR-rom
drive recognises CDR disks and also recognises pre-recorded CDs, but
has suddenly stopped recognising CDR-W disks. When I put a CDR-W in nad
click on my F (CD) drive in Windows Explorer, I get a messagebox with

I have a Pioneer DVR 106D dual format DVD writer, which is about 3 years
old now and it has written about 100 media dvd's and about 10/12 data dvd's.
All the media and most of the data dvd's are the +R format, and I have about
2/3 -R format.

I was able to access and use a particular data CD-R on my Compaq
notebook. It was burnt on a different computer. It was readable in
other computers as well. However, now my notebook now refuses to read
it. It does show up as a drive letter in the explorer (minus the drive

[00:53:27] NeroVision Log created (Date: 12/25/2006)
[00:53:27] NeroVision Processors: 2 (Intel)
[00:53:27] NeroVision OS: Windows Windows XP
[00:53:27] GCCore     Detected DirectX Version: 9.0c

I'm from Nepal. I have make a software and I want to sell it in the
market. As, in my country, there is no strict law about copyright. So I
need to stop illegal copying of my software. I searched for CD
protection techniques like SafeDisc,Laserlock,Securom. But i don't know

Is there software that allows one to edit an audio CD track directly, rather
than encurring the loss of first converting it to a wav or mp3 or other
analog file format?

I was just wondering if LightScribe is compatible with CD-RWs and
DVD-RWs.
Thank you.

 I'm looking to buy an external drive that will write/rewrite CDs and
DVDs.
I notice on some retailers' websites that sometimes these kits are
described as combo drives, sometimes as just dvd writers/rewriters, but

Hey I have a plexwriter 8/4/32a and I am having issues with burning
with cd-rw disks, I can burn no problem with cd-r but not cd-rw. does
anyone know how to fix this little issue.  I have windows XP and use
nero as burning software.  all help is appreciated.

I am so confused.
I was given a CREATIVE PC-DVD model DVD62340E, 6X.
I want to play a DVD with it, but I'm not sure what path to take.
I hooked up the drive and it plays CD's fine, but when I put a DVD in,

As I said in another thread, I'm looking to buy an external drive that
will write/rewrite CDs and DVDs.
I notice on some retailers' websites that sometimes these kits are
described as combo drives, sometimes as just dvd writers/rewriters, but

Can anyone please give me some advice. I have an old copy of Cool Edit
that I purchased years ago. I have some audio tapes that I wish to
transfer to CD to play on my stereo. I intend to record them on to hard
disk using Cool Edit, the only recording software I've got.

I am getting a new computer. I need to know what drive(S) to get if I
want to burn and read both a dvd and cdrom.I have heard of combo drives
but do they burn and read both types of media? Also do these drives take
up 1 or 2 5 1/4 slots in the computer? Lastly, what speeds are ...

I have recently seen a (to me) new type of Verbatim CD-R in cakebox.
It does not contain the words Datalife, Datalife Plus of Super-Azo,
is made in Japan, not India or China. The reorder number is 43351 vs.
43343 for the Datalife Plus Made in India.