Write CDRW!

Frequently Asked Questions

Question: How do I know if WriteCDRW has recognized my CDRW drive?

Answer: When you right click on the drive letter or icon for the drive you will get ab option of Format.

Question:How do I find out what cdrw drive I have?

Answer:go to device manager, then look under win98: CD ROM drives
win2000\XP: DVD\CD ROM drives and it will be identified there.

Question: Why is my cdrw drive not offering to format a cdrw when it is put in?

Answer: It is already formatted

Question: How do I format a CDRW when it is already formatted?

Answer: Right click the drive letter and choose format or open WriteCDRW (SaiCDRWFormat.exe) and format from that window.

Question: What capacity does a CDRW have after formatting?

Answer: About 100 megabytes less than the listed size after being formatted.

Question: What is the actual format of the drive?

Answer: UDF 1.5

Question: Why if Windows98 or WindowsME user installs the 'Windows Media Player 7' update it doesn't work?

Answer:If Windows98 or WindowsME user installs the 'Windows Media Player 7' update they will also get the 'Adaptec CD-Burning Plugin' along with it. Our WriteDVD product is in conflict with this plugin and will NOT work with it installed.
:cd-r & dvd-r will not mount the drive image after format (you can not copy files) :cd-rw & dvd-rw media will not mount after format (eject and re-insert will allow mount)

Question:How do I uninstall the Adaptec plug-in from Windows98?

Answer: If you're using Windows Media Player 7: Go the Add/Remove Control Panel and select "Windows Media Player 7". Check "Adaptec CD-Burning Plugin" and then click Next.

Question:How do I uninstall the Adaptec plug-in from WindowsME?

Answer:This is more complicated, there is on entry in the Add/Remove Control Panel, so you should run:
'rundll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\adaptec.inf,Uninstall'

This will remove the menu entry in Windows Media Player 7 'Copy to CD' then remove three files from
windows/system/iosubsys acbhlpr.vxd , cdr4vsd.vxd , cdralvsd.vxd