Sony Spressa USB

[Pappy]

Hello I got a sony Spressa USB for HCristmas and I can't seem to do a disk to disk copy.. My promary cd is a DVD drive.. When i use the software that comes with the zony it will start the burn than quit after like 2.5 MB and it goes to initaliazing disk and just freezes.. I can always make an image of the disk onto my HD but I am running out of space as it is.. Any thaughts?
Thanks,
Pappy

[Jammrock]

I take it the Sony Spressa USB is a USB CD-R/CD-RW type device...

I haven't ever played with an external USB burner before so I can only give you suggestions. First, if you are using Adaptec's Easy CD Creator and/or Direct CD, uninstall them and get ride of them. The Easy CD 4 has caused lots of troubles on lots of systems. Many people love it, and have had no troubles, but what you describe is a classic Easy CD/Direct CD problem.

Second, get Nero Burning ROM or GoldenHawk CD-R Win. These are the best burning packages on the market, IMO.

Third, when you are burning from CD to CD, never use maximum speed on the CD/DVD drive. If your CD-R only does 4x writes, then set the CD read speed to 6x or 8x.

Forth, make sure you have the newest updates to your software AND firmware for your CD-R drive.

Besides that I can't think of anything else...

Jammrock

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[Jammrock]

Gurm,

I bet you search General Hardware for my posts, just so you can reply to them

Easy CD is good, but it has been know to cause troubles. I have used Easy CD 3.5 and 4, but I still like Nero better. And yes Direct CD is a festering piece of garbage.

And you really need to chill about my post, I was making suggestions based on the limited amount of data available. Its hard to troubleshoot with little data

Jammrock