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Title: Suggestions for avoiding coasters
Review: My experience echoed a lot of the complaints here. The set-up worked fine on my Dell Latitude, and the drive made data disks just fine, but no music disks. It would report a write error and spit out a coaster every time. After weeks of frustration, I tried this: shut down all programs, including the screen saver, rebooted. Opened HP RecordNow. At the "Welcome to Record Now" menu, I clicked Options, then the Advanced tab. For Recorder Speed, I checked "limit maximum recorder speed to 1x." Since then, I've burned several music CD's with no coasters. It's not fast, but it's working. Clearly an inferior piece of equipment, but since I can't return it, I'm happy I can at least make it work.
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