Hey guys,

My friend asked me to copy something from my hard drive to two CDRW discs. I have an old HP 9300i (10x4x32). He gave me a regular 4X CDRW (Traxdata) as well as a 10X CDRW (AOpen)

I recorder perfectly on the 4X Traxdata, but the 10X Aopen wouldnt record (at any speed). Nero just kicked the disc out with the error "Disc is not a cd recordable" or something like that.

I thought of two possibilities.

1) My HP writer does not like the Aopen media. If this is true, this is the first disc it does'nt like since I own it (about 2 years)
2) 10X CDRW's (Hi Speed) just dont work in older 10X4X32 writers

Is it possible that 2) is the most likely cause?

TIA
Derrick

I'm going with no.2. You need a drive that supports high speed CDRW's to use them.

Thats what I thought, but the guys here at work disagree with me!

High speed discs are only recognised by High-speed compatible drives. The area used for the ATIP data region has been moved hence preventing them working in other drives. This applies not only to older, slower rewriters but to most DVD and CD-ROM drives.