CD burners and sumpin' else

[Peter R]

I put CD burners in the search and came up with a question relating to the use of:

My questions are: Best for novice. Brand comparisons. Price comparisons. Can music be burnt from the net this way, do you need another program or what.
On Casey Donavan's Web site it states that her new single 'may be burnt from this site'.
I can have a sony fitted for $80.00 or Hardly Normal has one for $45.00 forget the brand name (No it wasn't Acme of Dinky).
Is it difficult to fit them DYI. I fitted the last D drive without much worry, and it works!!

Sumpin' else.
What is it that is going on in Woodies Jokes Mk2? Looks like a lot of punch lines to jokes that are yet to be told.

Peter R.

Did you ever notice that the actions of hypochondriacs are usually pre-medicated? And that a good cat burglar takes a lot of breaking in?

[LineLefty]

CD Burnign technology is so cheap now that I really dont see any serious difference in brands. OR should I say, just ge the cheapest one from a reputable dealer. The real trick though is getting one that is compatible with all your hardware. The only way to tell is to test it out. Sometimes the CD burner just doesnt liek your particular combination of Mboard and Memory etc etc.

Go to a reputable dealer so you can easily take it back if it's aborting all the time or stuffing up.

Do.........not.........buy............computers............from........Hardly.......Normal or any department store. Go to your local computer shop and get the 19yr old geek to install it.

[Sturdee]

Sumpin' else.
What is it that is going on in Woodies Jokes Mk2? Looks like a lot of punch lines to jokes that are yet to be told.

That must be the missing Doorstop contribution. He deleted his posts before his metamorphis into Christopha.

Peter.

[Grunt]

I go to my (ex) local PC shop. The guy there fitted a new CD-RW drive to a computer while I waited. I can't remember the cost but it was bugger all. I only got charged for the drive. He made sure it worked before I left. Great service and price.

For those who live there abouts, the PC shop is Man Lee and he is on Melville Road in West Brunswick.

[PuppyPaw]

Erm, I don't agree at all with LineLefty..

Its like tools, buy a cheap tool you get a cheap tool!
If your buying a CD writer get a good one from a reputable company (the sony you mentioned is a good company)

They aren't that difficult to install at all, you install it exactly like you install your D drive (I assume hard drive?) you just have to find out how many IDE drives you have in your computer and I'll explain that.

the IDE drive is your hard drives, CD drives/writers, DVD drives/writers, Floppy drives, Zip drives and so forth.

You can only have 4 of these items in a regular computer on a regular mother board.

(This isn't the same in all cases I can put 6 in my computer, however its a specialised motherboard that isn't reguarly used by most people)

Also I have never heard of people having trouble with hardware working together because it doesn't match or anything as such.. it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I have had problems with hard where but never because of mismatches.. but I suppose it can happen in select cases....

In any case get a good CD writer not a real cheapo one that will last a year and need replacing or create more botched CDs then useable ones (Had this happen personally before..

[Honest Gaza]

Spend the extra $$$ and get a DVD-Writer. These are getting cheaper all the time and can still be used to write to CD. You can now get the "DUAL-LAYER" DVD Writers for under $200 and "Single-Layer" closer to $100.

[Iain]

Only software is required to upgrade my DVD from single to dual layer (Liteon)

[johna]

I would agree rather than getting a cd burner get a DVD dual layer burner. The pioneer 108 can now be had for $160.
Installation is a sinch, you can do it yourself very easily.
Open your box and have a look inside.
you will have a HDD and a cd rom they will be either connected on the same cable or 2 seperate cables. If it is 2 seperate cables then all you need to do is the following
1:There will be a jumper ont he back of your burner, you will need to put this to slave setting
2: Screw the burner into your case into a spare slot
3: Connect the IDE cable, (its the wide flat one with a red line down one side)to your burner making sure the red line is towards pin 1. Some cables will only go in one way anyways.
4: Connect a spare power plug to your burner, it's a small 3 pin plug, this can only go in 1 way

thats it and you are done.

Install the software that come with your burner, normaly its nero and you are ready to start burning

[johna]

forgot to mention, if both your HDD and CD rom are on the one ide cable you will then need to get a second ide cable and plug it into the m/b into ide 2 then to your burner but leave the jumper setting on the back of the burner to master.

[Honest Gaza]

....or just replace the original CD ROM with the new DVD Drive.

[ubeaut]

Got an LG 16X Super Multi DVD Rewriter at the local Computer Swap Meet last week for $90. Brand new, not hot!! Could have had the Pioneer for the same price however it just came in a plastic bag the LG was properly boxed. Why did I get the LG?? Not because of the box...... of the 5 vendors who had both they all said that the LG was their prefered machine and the one they had installed.

The LG writes to DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW DVD-RAM, CD-R/RW and is double layer compatible. Combined with the DVD player I already have installed, my CD-RW and a new 256mb Video Card I can now do a lot more video and sound recording, etc.

Go for the DVD Rewriter if you can find the extra. Buy from a Swapmeet if possible it is much cheaper, the items still have the same warranty (the LG has 2 years) they do from the big shops and in most cases you can get a 3 month exchange of the goods if they aren't compatible etc. Buy a reputable brand and from one of the regulars and not someone who has set up for the day.

Cheers - Neil

[Daddles]

While installing these things is easy, I wouldn't. I've yet to pay for installation of a burner - the shops have always installed them 'free' - inverted commas because I'm sure the installation was included in the price but they would have charged me the same without doing the work and the prices were the same as shops who wanted to charge extra for installation.

I HAVE had troubles with burners not liking the rest of the hardware and this is another reason for not doing it yourself. I had a computer upgraded. The new burner threw in the towel very quickly. They replaced it with the same brand. Same problems. Changed brands and no problems. The second one they put in went into one of the shop's own computers, got used heavily and didn't cause any problems. The thought was that the burner and something else in my system wasn't compatible, or just another case of malicious computer syndrome.

[Peter R]

Got an LG 16X Super Multi DVD Rewriter at the local Computer Swap Meet last week for $90. Brand new, not hot!! Could have had the Tday.

Cheers - Neil

Thanks Neil and others. We have a Sunday Market here in Coffs and there is a bloke that sells comp stuff. I bought a 52max compact disc drive for $50.00, still working after two years. However, I have been a bit wary of this type of purchase, but I'll check him out again. The reasons that I am going for a CD burner only is, one, purely financial - I am on the stoneage pension, the other is I don't own a DVD player.
I am thinking that the $80.00 fitted sony seems a good deal. On the web there are three sony burners and the one I am interested in is $53.00 (Chandlers $79.00 not fitted) The $115 Sony burner on the web is $197 at Chandlers. So do you reckon $80 fitted and set up is alright
The bloke that will fit it has a good reputation in town.
Gazza this shows how computer illiterate I am, but how can you burn from a disc to a disc if you replace the CD ROM with a burner?

Peter R.

[Barry_White]

Peter

The software will do it just using the same drive. You just select "copy" a disk and it should just lead you through the process.

[Honest Gaza]

What Bazza said.

Also, you can select an option of creating an "image" of the original disk first. This will burn it to you HDD and then allow you to make multiple copies to multiple CD's if required.

It wasn't that long ago when we used to make copies of Floppy Disks by continually swapping between Source Disk and Target Disk. It was mainly the computer's memory that allowed this....now the HDD is utilised for CD copying.