[starcraftmaster]

well i just got the DRW-i8i4BL
but when i burn things with nero it burns then at the end of it burning it says buring has failed
but it burnt a cd fine
and when i put cds and dvds in the drive and say it a install disc for a game or program
you will go into the disc and then you start setup.exe and it will say things like unkown has casued a error in unkown or setup.exe has caused a error in unkown or some thing about kernel32.dll or some crap
but when i put any cd in the normal cd drive i had for years it works fine
is windows 9x bad with dvd roms or is it just a bad drive?

[starcraftmaster]

do i just need to get win xp or vista?

[dencorso]

starcraftmaster, on Mar 28 2009, 07:25 AM, said:

is windows 9x bad with dvd roms or is it just a bad drive?

Win 9x/ME rocks with DVDs. Bet you got a bad drive. First exchange the data cable for another one and see whether it solves your problem. If not, get the vendor to exchange it for another unity.

[eidenk]

Both quality of blank DVDs and/or too high burn speed can affect succes in burning DVDs I think.

With the DVDs I have I can only burn succesfully at 2X speed. If I try to burn them at 4X speed I almost systematically fail the burns.

I don't think the OS version has anything to see with that.

[Fredledingue]

It looks like a bad VDV drive. I never had problem burning DVDs even at 4X.
And it reads everything.

[starcraftmaster]

ok i did what dencorso said to do and it seems like it did some thing
its reading disks fine now
dont know about burning since i got no dvd discs left
so the only probs now is that when i put a game or program cd or dvd in and i start setup and ora exe it will say things like
the whatever.exe(setup exe or some thing else)file is linked to a missing export kernel32.dll..
and after that says this Q:\whatever.exe
A device attached to the system is not functioning

or
you dont have admin rights or some thing
(cant remeber how it was but some thing like that)

and when i try copy the contents of the disk to the hard drive it says this
cannot copy setup: windows is unable to find the file. this item might have already been deleted or moved. press f5 refresh the view of this folder

really does sound like the os to me but am not sure Lol

one more thing when i tried putting the drive in the computer by its self so the other cd rw drive was not pluged it said this in the bios and would not go away intill i put the cd rw drive back

the drive is not atapi compatible or some thing like that

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Seeing as how you have an old P.O.S. system (No offense meant)

Are you sure your power supply is enough?

Did you set the jumpers right?

Last thing = is it a 40wire or 80wire cable?

[starcraftmaster]

ok i put the jumpers on the dvd drive as master and the cd rw as slave
should i put the dvd as slave and the cd rw as master??????? or put both or them as cable select??

and the psu is 200 watts not sure how much the drive needs

and i got a 40 wire cable

also one thing i tried the drive in a other computer with win 98
and tried one game cd setup and it was going all good intill the install sheild thing was starting a bit and it came up with a blue screen
so it amost worked in that
strange eh!

[starcraftmaster]

ah fixed it
i put the old cd rw on master and the new drive on slave
seems to work fine now
just need to get a pack of dvds and see if the burning is working

[Fredledingue]

I would set both CD and DVD drives as slave, but that shouldn't be an issue no matter what.

200 Watts is quiet small.

Instead of installation DVD's try with data DVD or browse the DVD instead of running non w98 executables.

[starcraftmaster]

its allright Fredledingue
its working fine now so noo need to change to both slave