NEED HELP: Roxio CD creator program

[Big Papa Smurf]

OK. I just got a R/W drive for my computer. I want make a music CD featuring different artists. I am using Roxio Easy CD creator. I downloaded the songs that I wanted from my CD collection, and tried to burn them onto a blank CD. I failed miserably. I keep on getting this message warning when trying to burn the music files onto the CD.

WARNING: Reservation conflict
This drive cannot be used because it is already being used by Roxio Direct CD kernal

How can I resolve this?

 

[CyberGoth]

remove roxio direct cd. better yet... use NERO.

cd-creator 4.xxx was quite good, when roxio bought the software from adaptec, they did a piss poor job of maintaining it, this produced roxio cdcreator 5 which I have banned from my companies systems because breaks things too easily.

but the simple cure is to uninstall the directCD subsystem. direct cd, treats a cdr as a very large write only floppy disk. [if using CD-R disks]

 

[Cruise]

nice job.
ban that mother ducker.
i used to use version 4, but is soo poorly design, i can hardly follow instruction.
if you are not a computer geek, then easy cd creator isn't design for you.

go with nero, u can download from nero.com
if u want to crack, pm me.

 

[Remo]

I agree with the two above. Use Nero. But in the mean time, do what Cybergoth said it is definitely the culprit. Check your systray too, that Direct CD thing used to leave an icon down there. If you close the program via right clicking on it and choosing close it may work. I can't recall what the icon looks like though. I've been a Nero Convert for quite some time.

 

[Joker]

I use CD Mate. It is very easy, and I've never had it fail. It creates both audio, and digital files.

www.cd-mate.com
www.cracks.am

 

[chubbs]

There is nothing wrong with Easy CD Creator. Make sure you have downloaded the most recent version of the software.

 

[hamermill]

Which version of CD creator do you have? Also which OS are you running. I once tried to install the Platinum version on a CDRW and the system did not like it. I had to settle and install Nero, then it worked fine.

I have found that installing the program that came with the CDRW is the most safest.

 

[CyberGoth]

when installing roxio 5 on a win2k SP2 system, on otherwise perfectly generic hardware, corrupts the registry and forces a bare metal rebuild.... at that point I put the roxio CD into the microwave and replace it with something better. [note the roxio CD came WITH the cdrw unit in question from the vendor]

Nero is very very nice.

and its not terribly expensive either, less than $100. I believe you can get it at business despot or similar entities.

oh yeah, try to make sure the hard drive and the cd burner devices are on different IDE connectors and hence different IRQs which in turn distributes the processing and workload more evenly and produces overall more efficient systems.

ie: boot disk: primary master, 2nd disk. primary slave.
CDRW secondary master, [some other ata device, zipdrive, hd, whatever] secondary slave.

IRQ 14 and 15 are separate virtualised AT interrupts mapped onto real PCI intterupts. [65535 PCI bus interrupts multiplexed into 16 virtualised ISA/AT interrupts at bios and chipset levels to provide backwards x86 compatability for things like dos etc.

use of 80wire/40pin shielded "udma100" cables are highly recommended for data integrity reasons.

 

[Big Papa Smurf]

CyberGoth,
You are going a bit over my head here. I have problems screwing in a light bulb, so I don't think I can do what you are suggesting. However, I did uninstall CD creator and tried Nero. The problem I get now is that I get this message warning.

Nero cannot read this file

This message comes up when I try to drag the files.