hi.. i just got a verbatime 32x cd-rw drive from staples. this replaces a hp 8110i (4x) burner, but i keep on getting coasters.. whenever i burn a cd using either nero 5.5.82 or the windows xp native burner, the cd-r seemingly works (nero says burn was successful) and the cd-r definitely is not blank, but when i try to read it from my dvd/cd drive, i get "disk not formatted. windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible w/ Windows." i've used different cd-r's (32x certified), tried burning at slower speeds, changed the cd-r drive to master on the secondary drive, but i always get this error. please help!!

Take it back get ya money and buy either plextor, Yamaha or liteon any of these three will be ok.

these cdrw's are the best.

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I think i'm right in saying that the only differences between the plextor and liteons is that the plextor has a cooling gizmo on the laser.

I got Plextor 401240a and it's boss also got a liteon LTD 163 DVD what a combo...

As for the Win XP burner, forget it it's crap. Stick with nero and with the money saved from buying at overclockers buy CloneCD it will be money well spent, you won't regret it.

Ps. I am not affiliated in anyway to overclockers.com they just do good prices with top gear.

Hope this helps :hail:

The verbatim is as far as I know a lite-on.