What's the deal with Win XP????

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I took the plunge today, and installed Win XP (home edition).

Shortly after installing it, I tried to install EZ CD Creator 4.XX. I immediately get a message that says there are "known issues with this product and Windows XP." Now I'm not a big fan of EZ CD Creator, but I have a lot of software updates (not to mention music projects) backed up to rewritable CD's (using Roxio's Direct CD to do the packet writing). So am I f*&^ked?? Are these CD's (and programs) now inaccessible to me???

Next I go to install Wavelab 4.XX. The installation goes OK, but when I run it for the first time, I get a message that says programs with CD writing capability can cause problems with Windows XP, and therefore it has disabled the driver for Wavelab. WTF???? Is this another case of Microsoft's "use my product or FU????" The program has CD writing ability, but XP has decided I can't use it???? C'mon!!!

So as it stands now, I can't access my Cd rewritables, and I can't burn CD's using Wavelab. Is this the way it's suppose to work? I think I want my $99 back!!

Imagine, I thought it was just the authentication scheme that kept me away this long.
 
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ive had WinXP (professional) for a long while now
i could never get Wavelab 4 to work properly under XP
im still using ol' Wavelab 3

i would get horrible latency with 4

if you still have 3, i would try installing it and see how that works

as for the cd drives, that could be any number of issues within XP itself (hardware, drivers, etc... :P

peace
LB
 
dachay2tnr, I had the same issue and you cannot solve it on your own. You have to contact their phone support line and they will point you to a secure server which has the file that fixes all this.

I fought this for over a month and finally broke down and called them. The fix is not on their public site either.

Thought I would share.
 
Thanks, middleman. I found it interesting that Win XP said that you need to get an update from Roxio, but if you followed the link they provided, it led to a site that was selling EZ CD Creator 6.0.

If I wanted to buy new software, it certainly WOULD NOT be EZ CD.

I'm still pissed about the Wavelab issue too. That's the program I use to burn all my audio CD's.
 
There were a number of my favorite titles that became extinct when i bought into XP (home edition). But I am pleased overall at the stability and control (system restore rocks) over my previous favorite, Win98SE.
 
the problem with EZCD is because Roxio doesn't know how to write a f**king program. You have to update to 5.something to be XP compatible...

anyways things you should have checked before you upgraded to XP.
 
jdechant said:
the problem with EZCD is because Roxio doesn't know how to write a f**king program. You have to update to 5.something to be XP compatible...

anyways things you should have checked before you upgraded to XP.
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ditto that, no Roxio she-it on my systems, only nero...

Roxio sucks, there attempt to adjust ECDC to work on XP was a freak'n joke, almost had to fdisk because of it....

peace...
 
i use nero 6 with my machine using xppro.
i've never had any problems with wavelab 4 though.. i have wavelab/Sx/nuendo/reason installed.. i don't have any problems with those apps
 
It's surprising that you can't access old cds written with EZ whatever it's called. I thought that once you burned a cd it was a CD and could be read anywhere by anything. That soiunds very strange. I'd be more worried about how EZ is burning the CDs for you if there's a machine that can't read them.
 
Roxio

Im finding that Roxio is pretty damn picky about 80minute recordables too. I have a whole spindle of 80 minute Maxells that wont work. But the no name brand work great. Go figure. I never had that problem in Win98. I could use whatever I wanted with the same recorder.
 
Doug H said:
It's surprising that you can't access old cds written with EZ whatever it's called. I thought that once you burned a cd it was a CD and could be read anywhere by anything. That soiunds very strange. I'd be more worried about how EZ is burning the CDs for you if there's a machine that can't read them.
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These are REwritable CD's, burned using Roxio's DirectCD. The program allows you to read/write to a CD-RW just as if it were a hard drive - albeit a bit slower. :) They're not readable unless you have the software installed.

Anyway, I think I've resolved the Wavelab issue, and (surprise, surprise) it was related to my ill-advised attempt at installing the Roxio software. Even after I had uninstalled it. I had to do a registry hack to remove all traces of a driver that EZ CD had installed. After I did that, the Wavelab problem went away (which actually was the one I was most concerned about).

As for the other problem, I have a 2nd computer that is still running WinME and has DirectCD installed. So I opened the re-writables on that computer and copied all the data over to CD-R's, which now allows me to access it on the WinXP machine.

So all is well again in dachayland - except I can't write to CD-RW's on this machine. I can live without that ability, although maybe I'll invest in Nero for that.
 
Doug H said:
It's surprising that you can't access old cds written with EZ whatever it's called. I thought that once you burned a cd it was a CD and could be read anywhere by anything. That soiunds very strange. I'd be more worried about how EZ is burning the CDs for you if there's a machine that can't read them.
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Roxio smells of M$ and alike, if they had it there way you'd only be able to read disc with there crappy appl...

excuse the rant but damn, do your homework before you drop your bucks on a jacked up piece of crap software friends...

Nero Rules The World, imho that is...
 
I'm brand new to PC recording, and I've just recently went from WIN98 to XP.
As long as you still have the FAT32 system on your hard drive, you can go back to your old operating system.
 
dachay2tnr said:
I took the plunge today, and installed Win XP (home edition).

Shortly after installing it, I tried to install EZ CD Creator 4.XX. I immediately get a message that says there are "known issues with this product and Windows XP." Now I'm not a big fan of EZ CD Creator, but I have a lot of software updates (not to mention music projects) backed up to rewritable CD's (using Roxio's Direct CD to do the packet writing). So am I f*&^ked?? Are these CD's (and programs) now inaccessible to me???

Next I go to install Wavelab 4.XX. The installation goes OK, but when I run it for the first time, I get a message that says programs with CD writing capability can cause problems with Windows XP, and therefore it has disabled the driver for Wavelab. WTF???? Is this another case of Microsoft's "use my product or FU????" The program has CD writing ability, but XP has decided I can't use it???? C'mon!!!

So as it stands now, I can't access my Cd rewritables, and I can't burn CD's using Wavelab. Is this the way it's suppose to work? I think I want my $99 back!!

Imagine, I thought it was just the authentication scheme that kept me away this long.
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You've go to be kidding. EZ CD Creator 4 didn't even run in 2000 without first downloading an update.

Do you expect every piece of software written in the last 5 years to run in XP when they were never designed for an NT based OS??? I'm sure the software coders all have crystal balls and can see what they need to write software for in the future...

:rolleyes:
 
dachay2tnr said:
So all is well again in dachayland - except I can't write to CD-RW's on this machine. I can live without that ability, although maybe I'll invest in Nero for that. [/B]
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hmm... I know winXP has built in support for burning to CDRs... though it had it for CD-RWs as well... could be wrong though cause I've never tried a CD-RW with the built in XP cd burning feature...

Also, awhile back, I found another program that was similar to DirectCD in that you could packet write to a CDRW (think that is the technical term for what DirectCD actually does)... only it was MUCH MUCH better than EZ CD... can't remember though cause I went with Nero, as I never really used that packet writing thing too much and I can never get a CDRW to last more than 3 full re-writes in my Plextor drive... ah well if I can remember the name I'll let you know.
 
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