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24x10x40 CD-RW Drive 

User’s Guide 

 

 

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Writing mode: Disc-at-Once 

 
We will leave all the options with their default settings. For detailed 
information, please refer to the Reference Chapter in the Nero-Burning ROM 
manual. Follow carefully the instructions. 
 
1.  If the audio tracks you want to write to a CD are not in a Wav. Format, 

please save them first into this format (see Saving audio tracks). 

2.  Click on the Audio-CD icon in the New Compilation dialog window, which 

opens after you start Nero. If you have already opened Nero, you can 
reach this dialog window through the icon for "New Compilation". On the 
property sheets, the Audio-CD card is on the top. 

3.  Now click on the “New” button at the right. 
4.  The corresponding blank compilation window for Audio CD opens. If the 

File Browser has not yet been opened, you can do that now by entering 
the VIEW > New File Browser command or by clicking on the File Browser 
icon. 

5.  Using drag & drop, compile the files for the Audio CD by clicking on the 

desired files in the File Browser with the mouse and then dragging them 
into the compilation window. 

6.  Now open the Write CD dialog. The easiest way to do this is to click on the 

Write CD icon in the toolbar. You will then go to the Write CD dialog box, 
which will undoubtedly look familiar to you: it is the same box which you 
saw for the creation of a new compilation, only now the Burn property 
sheet is shown on the top. 

7.  You will see several boxes, of which some have already been selected. All 

of the preferences may now be examined and changed if necessary. 

8.  Confirm by clicking on Write. 
9.  Finally, the CD will be ejected. 
10.  You may now check to see for yourself what was written onto your new 

CD by re-inserting the CD and clicking on the CD info icon.  

 
Important:

 if your audio CD contains crackling noises or sounds strangely 

distorted, you have most likely trouble with the so-called "Audio Jitter". These 
problems are case by hardware failures to read audio data correctly. Please 
refer to “Checking the audio features of your CD-ROM drive and CD ROM-
Read speed settings”. 
 
 
 
 
 

Summary of Contents for 24X10X40

Page 1: ...24X10X40 CD RW Drive USER S GUIDE ...

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Page 4: ...an emit radio frequency energy and if not installed or used in accordance with the instructions may cause interference to radio communications However television reception interference can be determined by turning the equipment off and on The user is encouraged to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation be...

Page 5: ...TION 15 Nero Burning ROM 16 Before You Begin 16 NERO BURNING ROM INTERFACE 17 How you use Nero to create and record a CD ROM ISO 18 How you use Nero to create and record an Audio CD 19 WRITING MODE TRACK AT ONCE 19 WRITING MODE DISC AT ONCE 21 Duplicating a CD 22 CHOOSE IMAGE COPY IF YOU 22 CHOOSE ON THE FLY COPY IF YOU 23 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO COPY A CD 23 SAVING AUDIO TRACKS 24 Tro...

Page 6: ...D a CD R or a CD RW disc The application included allows you to read and pre master CD R or CD RW discs plus file system drag and drop for archiving data interchange and back up on both CD R and CD RW discs User friendliness is further enhanced as the CD Rewritable can be used as a PnP Plug and Play CD ROM drive for all PC operating systems such as Windows 98 Windows 95 Windows 2000 Windows Me and...

Page 7: ...eed Max 40x CAV Loading Method Tray Average Access Time 120 msec avg Writing mode Disc At Once Session At Once Track At Once Multi session Writing format CD DA CD ROM CD ROM XA CD Extra CD I Mixed Mode CD Video CD Photo CD CD TEXT Bootable CD Power requirements DC 5V 12V Installation Horizontal Vertical Temperature Operating 5ºC 40ºC Non Operating 30ºC 65ºC Humidity Operating 5 90 Non Operating 5 ...

Page 8: ...ns the following items 24x10x40 CD Rewritable Drive User s Guide This Document Registration Card CD Mastering burning software Audio and Data Cables System Requirements Pentium Class Computer Windows 2000 Me 98 95 NT 1 available Enhanced IDE port 32 MB RAM 64 MB recommended 32 MB Free Disk Space ...

Page 9: ...d be connected to a Secondary IDE controller port as Master This will ensure your hard drive s performance and speed are not affected by having the drive on the same cable Additionally if you have a CD ROM drive or a CD R drive you should attach it to the Primary IDE controller port as a slave drive Connect the internal IDE flat cable to the IDE interface card of your host Connect the other end to...

Page 10: ...E Master mode controller as the PC needs to use the hard disk to boot up the system unless you are using a SCSI hard drive Make sure the CD Rewritable drive is connected to the Primary IDE Port as the 2nd device which is referred to as the Slave Make sure the Mode Select Jumper is set to the SL Slave position in order to be used as the 2nd device on the Primary IDE Controller Connecting a Secondar...

Page 11: ...rself as well as the risk of damage to your computer 2 Remove the computer s cover Please refer to your computer s User s Guide on how to remove the computer s cover 3 Locate an available 5 drive bay Locate an empty 5 drive bay within your computer It may be necessary to remove a square iron plate Please refer to your computer s User s Guide for assistance 4 Slide the CD Rewritable drive into the ...

Page 12: ...th Pin 1 of the IDE connector 7 Connect the Analog cable from your Sound Card to the Audio out connector on your If necessary If you have a sound card or an audio interface card use the audio cable to connect from the sound card audio port to the CD Rewritable drive s Analog Audio out connector located on the back panel 8 Secure the CD Rewritable drive against the chassis of your computer Secure t...

Page 13: ...section of this manual if Windows does not automatically detect your CD Rewritable drive DOS or Windows 3 1x Note Dos and Windows 3 X is not supported as a CD Rewritable drive You can ONLY use it as a regular CD ROM drive Visit our website for Dos Windows 3 X drivers and information Windows NT 4 0 Installation 1 Power on your PC 2 Log into Windows NT 3 Once in the desktop click on the Start button...

Page 14: ...discs Mixed mode CDs and many other features Formats Supported Nero Burning ROM supports the following formats CD ROM o Compact Disc Read Only Memory A standard for CDs used as a digital memory medium for personal computers The specifications for CD ROM were first defined in the Yellow Book see Glossary for information CD ROM XA o XA stands for Extended Architecture CD ROM XA is an extension of th...

Page 15: ...uctions carefully and step by step If you encounter a problem refer to the troubleshooting section on this manual 1 Power on your computer 2 Boot into Windows 3 Insert the Nero Burning ROM installation CD into your CD ROM drive 4 The CD will automatically run and the installation program will guide you through the entire installation process 5 Reboot your computer at the end of the installation No...

Page 16: ... off before you begin Failure to do so may result in problematic behaviour such as system hangs and loss of data Turn off Auto Insert Notification for every CD drive on your IDE bus including the CD recorder itself To turn off the Auto Insert Notification follow these steps 1 Right click on the My Computer icon on the desktop 2 Select Properties from the menu The System Properties dialog box opens...

Page 17: ... ll be able to do the following Burn disc Images Make CD Boot Discs Create DOS MAC Hybrid discs great for cross platform software developers Create UDF or UDF ISO file system discs Audio CDs with critical sound filters Mixed Mode CDs Support a wide range of CD Recorder Drives CD to CD Copying Files Directories from HD to Disc Image CD Overburning ...

Page 18: ...the File Browser has not yet been opened you can do that now by entering the VIEW New File Browser command or by clicking on the File Browser icon 6 Now open the Write dialog The easiest way to do this is to click on the Write CD icon in the toolbar You will then go to the Write CD dialog box which will undoubtedly look familiar to you it is the same box which you saw for the creation of a new com...

Page 19: ... hard disc This method requires having enough space on your hard disc since about 10 MB are needed to save one minute of music Once the files have been saved on your hard disc you will be able to write your audio compilation in Disc at Once mode Using the Disc at Once recording mode you will be able to make use of features such as variable pause length settings index setting etc Writing mode Track...

Page 20: ... several boxes of which some have already been selected All of the preferences may now be examined and changed if necessary Important Audio data that have been compiled on the fly without being first saved as wave files can only be written in track at once mode This means that you will not be able to make use of some features of your CD recorder e g CD Text variable pause length or index setting s...

Page 21: ...compile the files for the Audio CD by clicking on the desired files in the File Browser with the mouse and then dragging them into the compilation window 6 Now open the Write CD dialog The easiest way to do this is to click on the Write CD icon in the toolbar You will then go to the Write CD dialog box which will undoubtedly look familiar to you it is the same box which you saw for the creation of...

Page 22: ...age Copy if you 1 Want the best possible reproduction especially concerning audio tracks 2 Have enough time for an image copy which takes somewhat longer than an On The Fly copy 3 Have enough free space on a hard disk to store the CD image you will possibly need several hundred megabytes 4 Want to write multiple copies of a CD 5 Expect read errors on the source CD for example scratches and dust on...

Page 23: ...y CDs much faster That s the good news Step by step instructions on How to Copy a CD We will leave all the options with their default settings For detailed information please refer to the Nero Burning ROM Reference Chapter in the manual Follow the instructions carefully 1 Click on the CD Copy icon in the New Compilation dialog window which opens after you start Nero If you have already opened Nero...

Page 24: ...er to checking the audio features of your CD ROM drive and CD ROM Read speed settings Saving Audio Tracks The tracks on your audio CDs are in CDA format You can save these tracks onto your system as WAV files To do this follow the instructions below 1 Insert an audio CD into the CD Rewritable drive 2 From the main Nero Burning Rom window select CD Recorder from the toolbar 3 Select Save Track from...

Page 25: ... both Primary and Secondary IDE controllers are present and without yellow exclamations marks To check the status of your IDE controllers click on the Start button Settings Control Panel System Hardware for Windows 2000 Device Manager under the Hard Disk Controllers category Yellow exclamation marks on the IDE controllers mean that the device is not working properly not install properly or have a ...

Page 26: ...the Start button then Run and type REGEDIT Then go to the following directories to remove the NOIDE entry if it is listed Once removed reboot system HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CURRENTCONTROLSET SERVICES VXD IOS After you update the registry restart Windows Windows will then attempt to initialize the protected mode driver for the controller If no problems are encountered the file system and virtual ...

Page 27: ...u recorded the CD using the DOS filenames option in the File Names tab but there are nonetheless difficulties in reading back the CD on DOS or Windows 3 1 system it may be that you have an older version of MSCDEX before version 2 23 on your system Problems Reading Multisession CDs If you can see only data recorded in the first session on the CD but not in subsequent sessions it may be that You rec...

Page 28: ... from that of factory pressed CDs If your CD ROM drive reads mass produced silver CDs but not recordable CDs check with the CD ROM drive manufacturer to determine whether this is the problem In some cases an upgrade is available which will resolve the problem The combination of CD brand and CD recorder can make a difference Use only good quality CD R or CD RW media Which Nero Releases supports Win...

Page 29: ...D may be damaged To avoid buffer underruns make sure that no screen savers or other Terminate and Stay Resident TSR utilities are active they can momentarily interrupt operations and that your working hard disk cannot be accessed via a network Also the CD recorder s position in the IDE bus or the cable length between the computer and CD recorder may cause data slow downs Try connecting the CD reco...

Page 30: ...t the same as playing the music Few CD ROM drives can read audio tracks in digital format The destination CD is smaller than the source There is not enough room on the recordable CD to copy the source CD Try recording to a blank CD Use 74 minute media instead of 60 minute media Some CDs cannot be copied due to the TOC overhead in CD recorders and also due to the calibration zone overhead See PCA i...

Page 31: ...CD that cannot be read at all because the CD addresses calculated for the disc image are wrong for this CD Other Program Messages The following is a list of other program messages you may encounter along with their descriptions Adding files to CD image As part of the process of preparing to record Nero Burning ROM is creating a database of the files to be written to CD Fixing up The files in the D...

Page 32: ... can be linked with the new files to be recorded Mounting The ISO 9660 disc structure is prepared on hard disk This generates a large temporary file in your set temporary directory Using the Online Help You will find most of the information you need to use Nero Burning ROM in the Manual folder within the Nero Burning ROM CD Also you can open the Nero Burning ROM program and go to the Help Topics f...

Page 33: ...y way without the consent of I OMagic or if the failure is the result of misuse abuse or misapplication I OMagic has no obligation to repair or replace the failed product Except as expressly provided above the hardware and accompanying written materials including the Users Guide are provided as is without warranty of any kind including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a pa...

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