No CD Writer/reader found or ASPI drivers problem...
What to do if you have "No CD Writer/reader found or ASPI drivers problem":
or if one of your CD writer (or reader) is not detected by VCDEasy.
If you are using VCDEasy 2 (with the SPTI CD devices access method) on Windows NT / 2000 / XP and if your CD writer is not detected, then you need to consider the ASPI CD devices access method...
CD writing functions in VCDEasy are performed by CDRDAO, a burning tool. When VCDEasy starts, CDRDAO uses your ASPI drivers to have the list of CD readers/writers available on your computer (it can alternatively uses the SPTI access method on Windows NT/2000/XP) . ASPI allows software to communicate with CD drives (SCSI, IDE, EIDE, USB, Firewire...). So, if VCDEasy fails to find your CD devices (or one of them), there are two possible cases:
- 1) CDRDAO does not work correctly with the ASPI drivers installed on your windows
and/or
- 2) The ASPI drivers you have are unable to detect one/several/all your CD devices
In both cases, if you want to solve the problem, i.e burn with VCDEasy, you will have to change/update your ASPI drivers. See "How to install ASPI drivers" below.
You can also choose to not burn with VCDEasy.
Indeed, VCDEasy, you can output to a CD image (CUE/BIN format) rather than burning a CD from within VCDEasy. A CD image file is a full copy of a CD, but stored on a hard disk as a big file. This file is "ready to be burnt" by many burning application (like Nero Burning Rom, CdrWin...). Simply select "CD Image File Recorder" as CD writer in VCDEasy, in order to output CD image files:
Important note: If you choose to not burn with VCDEasy, in order to not have the "No CD Writer/reader found or ASPI drivers problem" each time you start VCDEasy
Go to the settings pages:
Click on "General" in the left pane, then uncheck "Use the internal burning engine":
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How to install the ASPI drivers
Since VCDEasy 2, ASPI is no more need on Windows NT / 2000 / XP, as it can use SPTI (a built-in Windows, equivalent to ASPI):
So if you are using VCDEasy 2 on Windows NT/2000/XP, do not bother with ASPI installation (except if your CD writer requires a special ASPI layer in order to be detected/used)
ASPI allows software to communicate with CD drives (SCSI, IDE, EIDE, USB, Firewire…).
Important Note: if you do not want to install/change your ASPI drivers, or if VCDEasy won't still be able to use your CD writer to burn CDs, you should know that you still can create VideoCDs with VCDEasy and burn them using another burning software.
VCDEasy does not come with its ASPI drivers, but VCDEasy can be used with Nero's ASPI or Adaptec's ASPI.
Based on users' feedback, I recommend you to try with Nero's ASPI first.
How to install Nero's ASPI for VCDEasy
Windows NT4/2000/XP
IMPORTANT: you must have administrator privileges in order to use Nero's ASPI.
Providing VCDEasy with Nero's ASPI on Windows NT4/2000/XP is very easy:
Simply install Nero Burning Rom (even the demo version - www.nero.com). VCDEasy will detect it, and use its ASPI.
Windows 9x/Me
There are two steps for providing VCDEasy with Nero's ASPI on Windows 9x/Me
1) Install Nero Burning Rom (even the demo version - www.nero.com).
2) Download Nero's ASPI for Windows 9x/Me:
Launch NeroAspiEn.exe, this will extract some files, including one called "Readme.txt". Follow the instructions in this "Readme.txt" file in order to install Nero's ASPI for Win9x/Me.
Once done, restart VCDEasy, then you should see and be able to select "Nero" in the ASPI dropdown list in VCDEasy:
How to install Adaptec's ASPI for VCDEasy
Important Note: Version differences can make a huge difference, for example, ASPI 4.60 may work just perfectly for your CD writer while ASPI 4.70 may not work...
If you want to install ASPI v4.60, ASPI version is known to works great with CDRDAO, you should use ForceASPI 1.7 to install it. Search the web for "ForceASPI" to find it, and read its file named "index.html" to have instructions on using it. ForceASPI (Adaptec ASPI v4.60 in fact) works with Win98, WinME, WinNT, and Win2000 .. regardless of your particular system configuration. It also works fine with WinXP, as reported by many happy WinXP users.
Once done, restart VCDEasy, then you should see and be able to select "Adaptec" in the ASPI dropdown list in VCDEasy.
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