Cd Burning

Hi There!
I have a question about burning CDs - I am new at this, so please bear with me.

I have a 2000 Compaq Evo Minotower, DVD/CDR drive. I am having trouble trying to burn my music onto recordable discs. The discs I just bought will not work - the machine doesn't even recognize them when I insert them. It either tells me I do not have a detectable recording device or to insert a disc as the drive is empty. The discs are TDK CD-R, 80 min/700 MB.

I am able to transfer my music files to my mp3 player, my DVDs do play, and I am able to install any software that is on CD o DVD, soI know my drive is working.

Do I need to buy a certain type of recordable discs?

Here is the system information I have in case this is relevant to my situation -

Windows 2000
Service Pack 4
Intel R Pentium
4 CPU
70GHz
253.424 KB RAM

Thanks for any insight you can give me!

 

Win2k has no builtin cd burning capibilities as does XP.

What burning software are you using? Nero etc.

Robert

 

Sounds like you need to purchase a DVD RW drive, somethine like this.

 

Hi,
I suggest looking up the drivers page for your model at the Compaq website. This is assuming that the DVD/CD drive is the original that came with the computer. At the drivers webpage, you will probably find DVD/CD "drivers ", you should find some, if not all, the "drivers" are actually firmware updates. Among other things, a firmware update allows the drive to use more modern types of media. OEM manufacturers like Compaq do not tend to keep updating/upgrading the drivers for a long time, you may find they stop being updated after about 2 years, so the firmware update may still be too old for today's modern media.

Not very likely, but it might be a bad batch of disks.

If you cannot get the drive to see the TDK disks, you could try other brands. If you do consider a new drive, if there was enough power available (a decent sized PSU) you can run two optical drives. I put old CD drives in my computers and use those specifically for CD disks just to save some wear and tear on my main drive.

Matt