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You have purchased a new CD burner with accompanying burning
software. However, you prefer to continue to use Roxio's
Easy CD Creator v4.05 and DirectCD v3.05 which you acquired
with a previously purchased CD writer. Unfortunately, these
report to you that they do not recognize your new CD burner,
and Roxio is no longer supporting them with burner updates.
Despair not. Here is what worked for me under Windows 98SE.
My original writer was a 16x4x48x Yamaha CRW2100E. The new external USB drive is a 52x24x52x CDWriter IDE5224. For Easy CD Creator, a simple registry edit was sufficient: A search within the HKLM\Software\Adaptec\Easy CD Engine\1.0 registry branch for the string "CDWriter IDE" located the item HKLM\Software\Adaptec\Easy CD Engine\1.0\Devices1\Device283 which contained the string "CDWriter IDE1610 .......1610.......,165" This was changed to read "CDWriter IDE5224 .......5224.......,165" For DirectCD, a change was required in the registry and in a system file: A search within the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrpwd registry branch for the string "CRW2100E" located the item HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrpwd\Device96\Parameters\PARAM1 which contained the string "CRW2100E". This was changed to read "IDE5224". The other parameters were left unchanged. The file Windows\System\Iosubsys\cdrpwd.vxd was opened with a hex editor, and the string "CRW2100E" was located and changed to "IDE5224" followed by hex 00. That was it. The new writer works like a charm with the older software. |
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