Direct CD?

[Mark W 0]

I had DirectCd working fine under win2k (with all up-to-date patches) even with Nero installed. I recently also installed CloneCD and CDRWin and now DirectCD reports no compatible writer. Does anybody have all of these successfully installed and working happily together? If yes, how?

 

Thanx.

[Mark W 0]

Anybody?

[5t3ph3n 0]

perhaps you installed windows media player 7?

[Mark W 0]

Indeed I did! Do you think that did it?

[5t3ph3n 0]

yes! it's a known problem... WMP7 final makes directCd report no compatible CDRW (and other problems also). you should uninstall wmp7 and i suppose(?) you'll be alright again

[Mark W 0]

Thank you very much. Is this problem documented and what does Micro$oft have to say about it? I am going to uninstall it and hope I get my dcd back.

 

Thanks again.

[Simon Ngan 0]

Doh!!! I just installed Media Player 7.0 on my W2K machine and now no compatible CDRW drive. I guess I'll have to go back to Media Player 6.4.

[Blur 0]

This issue caused me real problems the other day (which was my first time installing W2K on a computer with a CD-RW drive). Thanks for the info on the incompatibility.

 

And to further discussion, I have successfully installed DirectC v3.01c *AND* Windows Media Player 7 on the computer I was having problems with.

 

How? Instead of uninstalling all of WMP7, I chose the Custom setting to choose what I wanted to remove. The only thing I uninstalled was WMP's Adaptec CD burning plug-in (which is undoubtedly the culprit here). After that I installed EZCD4, then DirectCD v3. A few reboots later, no complaint from DCD and the computer still recognizes my CD-RW and DVD drives (which had disappeared in the previous installation because of this problem).

 

While I haven't done any actual functionality testing yet, at least the original problems have disappeared and they look to be coexisting. I'll keep you informed.

 

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[Mark W 0]

Adaptec has posted a work around on their support site. It consists of uninstalling EZCD and DCD and then reinstalling them. For the most part that worked for me although I did have to manually make sure to uninstall/delete the original installation before I was able to reinistall it and patch it to current successfully.

[Mark W 0]

ooops - dp

 

[This message has been edited by Mark W (edited 27 July 2000).]

[davidsmelt 0]

I even had this problem using WMP 7 beta in Win98.

 

Now, in Win2k, I wont touch wmp7.exe ever again!

I didn't like it anyway; 6.4 is much better.

 

[This message has been edited by davidsmelt (edited 27 July 2000).]