Hello, this is my first post here. I'm Juan, from Argentina.
A friend recommended me this site, and I was looking for help about this:
I borrowed from a friend an old HP 7200 and as soon as I connected it my Win XP Pro recognized it (as HP CD Writer+ 7200). The issue is that Windows recognizes it as a CD reader, but not a CD writer. I mean, I can run audio or data CDs there, but I cannot burn a thing, as no burning program tells there's a CD writer connected.
Does anyone have a clue about what is happening here? ???
I need to solve this problem in order to burn some stuff quickly (HD space running out )
Thanx in advance, people, hope to hear from you soon

Google gives me this: http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/22752.html


Hope this helps.

Oh, sorry, I forgot a detail: It's HP 7200i (Internal)
Thanx Gecko anyway

One thing about the HP 7200 - I had one of these several years ago, and unless I am mistaken, they have a real problem with 80 min. media. When you try to close a session on a 80 min. CD, the drive locks up, even if you have less than 74 min. of material on the disk.

So I hope you have a source of 74 min. CD-R's.

In fact the whole HP series of writers is disappointing. I had a HP 8200i and it blew up after a year or so. One fine day I put on my computer and the BIOS just wouldnt recognize it. It was beyond repair. I had to trash it :mad:

In fact they don't recognize 80' media... Only 74'... I read that @ HP's website (bad site by the way :mad: )

But i still cannot make Windows recognize it as a cd-recorder

I had this 7200i working here with W2k.
I do not know about XP has build in support but for me the drive was recognized by Ahead Nero.

Wombat

I have an HP CD-Writer+ 7200e. As a matter of fact the internal and external version are identical: the 7200e is simply a 7200i fitted into an external box with an ATAPI parallel port interface.

If you can fit it internally do it, it works much better (when using the parallel port you get 100% CPU usage, and a simple mouse movement or keyboard press is enough to cause a buffer underrun. Internally on my P4 2.0a I never get any buffer underrun even doing other intensive stuff.

WinXP does not support it as a CD-Writer out of the box, but I can't imagine anyone who would only use WinXP for CD-Burning.

WinOnCD 3.7 supports it.

When Roxio acquired CeQuadrat they broke the driver support in WinOnCD 3.8 (just use a copy of the old driver).

WinOnCD 5.0 supports it.

I never had any luck with Ahead Nero (even though it claimed to support it).

And I would not touch Easy CD Creator with a barge pole

Well, I only tried with Nero, but it crashes as soon it is starting
I even tried, in an act of desperation, to burn a CD with WMP, but no cd recorder recognized either...
Well, I'll try WinOnCD... any idea where to get it? ???
Thanx a lot to all of you guys...

Hi Juan =)
Have you got things to work?

Hi David, good to see ya around
Well, at last Nero is working, and I'm burning some backups in cd-rw...
Cheers

It should not be difficult to find WinOnCD 5.0 Power Edition, try a Google search. If you cannot find any downloadable site, you can get it from the edonkey network )download the client at http://www.edonkey2000.com/).

Shame on Roxio/CeQuadrat for not making a trial version available.