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Hi all. Need a little help here. Nero 6 says that my burner is in use by another app. I can't figure this out. Win XP Pro SP2, 1.25GB RAM, 2277MHz Athlon, Asus A7N8x Deluxe 2.0, 52X CDR burner, etc. Thanks in advance for any help.

Did you, or anyone else, try to burn something thru Windows? You should see a balloon thngy that says "files are ready to be written to a CD" or some stupid message down on teh taskbar. Destroy all of that.

Indeed. Destroy.
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...or...
1. Open My Computer
2. Rt-click your CD burner... Properties
3. Recording tab
4. Uncheck "Enable CD recording"

No, nothing weird happened. All the sudden, I can't burn anything through Nero. Weird.

Hyp...hyp... hypocrit!

What?? How am I hyping anything?

Read what you said!!!

No, nothing weird happened. All the sudden, I can't burn anything through Nero. Weird.

:D

That's not hypocrisy, it's simple contradiction.

Exactly.

Do you have any other burning software like Roxio? That can sometimes conflict with every other burning app.

Fine! :D <3

Roxio does have a habit of interfering with other software. I've gotta say it's the wierdest piece of software I've ever seen. It does some wierd stuff and is a pain in the ass to remove.

It could be that you had a failed burn, and your software is still holding the 'lock' on your device. Have you tried rebooting?

I've rebooted many times, and I followed the advice above. I even reseated the IDE cable. Something that I didn't notice b4, trying to burn from XP, I get a fail that the CDR disc is not burnable. I've swapped out many blanks that from brands that used to work. Any ideas? I've even used System restore back to 4 July. No Go.

I'm pretty cranky about this problem, please help....

So you didn't disable XP's burn feature yet? Sounds like something is fighting both it and Nero. Try to get one working, disabling the rest. (XP's burning code isn't usually a problem for me but you have to start somewhere.)

Do you have any other CD burning software? Roxio (gag) was mentioned above, but do you have anything at all installed besides XP's built-in and Nero?

I've deselected burning from XP and I still can't burn from Nero. It always says Drive in use by another application. Any other ideas?

What's the complete version of Nero? They had an issue with IMAPI early in the 6 series, like before 6.1.

If the IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service is running, stop it.

Start->Run->"services.msc" (without quotes)
Scroll down & double click "IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service"
Stop, set to manual, click OK.
Quit

I'm with Cyrnel. It's more than liekly an imapi issue, I occasionally see it with Nero. Just manually stop imapi from running, then boot up Nero and see if that works.

I tried Imapi at manual, disabled and automatic. Still no-go. My burner can read cd's but always fails when I try to burn something, saying that the drive is in use by another app. I'm seriously pissed off right now. But I do appreciate the help.

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Just kidding. Sounds like a shit sandwich to me. Do you have another burner you can try it out with? That's what I'd do next.

-Lasereth

Changing the startup type is good but did you actually stop the service before trying Nero? Was it running?

Sorry if that was obvious but I can't tell from what you wrote.

Laser, shame! :D

If it helps, just-shoot-me problems never end. Walk into any unfamiliar forest of junk that doesn't work and isn't obvious and it quickly becomes time for deep breathing exercises.

Hi all, thanks for your help. It seems that Nero chose to commit suicide. A newer version of Nero works fine. So I just found a new version of ezcd and all is well.