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I/O Magic MagicWriter External User Manual

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  • Page 1 MagicWriter External USB 4x4x6 CD ReWritable Drive USER’S GUIDE...
  • Page 2 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Dear Customer: Congratulations on the purchase of your CD-RW drive. We can assure you that it is made from new state-of-the-art chipsets and components. Your product has also gone through the most rigorous test and quality assurance procedures in the industry.
  • Page 3 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Copyright Statement It is a criminal offense, under applicable copyright laws, to make unauthorized copies of copyright-protected material, including computer programs, films, broadcasts and sound recordings. This equipment should not be used for such purposes. Notice: I/OMAGIC Corporation makes no warranty of any kind with regards to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular product.
  • Page 4 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide FCC Compliance Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: This device may not cause harmful interference, and • This device must accept any interference received, including •...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Table Of Contents Introduction ..................6 ......................7 EATURES ....................8 PECIFICATIONS ................. 9 ONTENTS ACKAGE ..................9 YSTEM EQUIREMENTS Product Description................10 ....................10 RONT ................... 10 NDICATOR TATUS ..................... 11 ...................... 11 Hardware Installation ..............12 Driver Installation ................

  • Page 6: Introduction

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the External USB 4x4x6 CD ReWritable drive. We are sure that you will enjoy this product in the years to come. This product is a high performance USB interface CD-RW drive with 6X (read), 4X (write) and 4X (re-write).

  • Page 7: Features

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Features Standard Features of Your CD ReWritable Drive 4X Writing, 4X Rewriting, 6X Reading • 2MB buffer size • USB 1.0 Interface • Anti Vibration System • Emergency Eject • Dust Protection System • Backup and Disaster Recovery Protect, secure and restore your most valuable data •...

  • Page 8: Specifications

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Specifications Drive Type External CD-ReWritable Drive OS Compatibility Win 98, ME, 2000, Write 600 KB/sec (4X) Data Transfer Rewrite 600 KB/sec (4X) Rate Read 900 KB/sec (6X) Access Time 150 ms Buffer Size 2 MB Interface Universal Serial Bus (USB) CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM (mode1 and mode 2), CD-...

  • Page 9: Contents Of Your Package

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Contents Of Your Package External USB CD-RW Drive. • USB Interface Cable. • Nero Burning ROM CD Creation Software for the PC. • 1 Blank CD-RW Disk. • AC Adaptor. • Driver Installation CD. • Manual.

  • Page 10: Product Description

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Product Description Front View Note: Product may vary slightly from picture 1. Headphones Jack: Attach headphones or self-amplified speakers. 2. Volume Controller: Adjusts headphone volume level. 3. Writing Indicator: Lights up while data is being written to or erased from the disc.

  • Page 11: Rear View

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Rear View 1. Audio Output Connector: Provides an alternative option other than the headphone on the front panel. Suitable for the connection of self- amplified speaker. 2. Digital Audio Output Connector: Offers high quality audio effect by outputting digital signal to D/A converter.

  • Page 12: Hardware Installation

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Hardware Installation Check to make sure you have at lease one available USB port on your computer. Also check that the power plug is suitable with the power outlet in your office or home. Note: Some USB hubs may not be able to detect the CDRW drive.
  • Page 13 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Connect the CD-ReWritable drive to the PC’s USB slot with the USB cable. Your computer system will automatically detect the presence of your new CD-ReWritable drive. Proceed to the Software Installation procedure for your operating system. Note: This CD ReWritable drive must be horizontally installed and operated.

  • Page 14: Driver Installation

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Driver Installation Windows 98 Power on your computer and wait until Windows has fully loaded. Power on your CD-RW drive FIRST, and then plug the USB cable from the back of the CD-RW drive into your computer’s USB port. Your computer should find the new hardware and bring up the “Add New Hardware Wizard”...
  • Page 15 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Select the “Search for best drive” option and press the “Next” button. Put a check box on “Specify a location”, and uncheck everything else. Then hit the “Browse” button and select “A:\Win98&2000” where A is your floppy drive letter. Then press the “Next” button. - 15 -...
  • Page 16 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Press “Next” after it has found your new hardware drivers. Press “Finish” to complete your new hardware driver installation. You should now see a new drive letter under “My Computer”. - 16 -...

  • Page 17: Windows Me

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Windows Me Power on your computer and wait until Windows has fully loaded. Power on your CD-RW drive FIRST, and then plug the USB cable from the back of the CD-RW drive into your computer’s USB port. Your computer should find the new hardware and bring up the “Add New Hardware Wizard”...
  • Page 18 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Put a check box on “Specify a location”, and uncheck everything else. Then hit the “Browse” button and select “A:\WinME” where A is your floppy drive letter. Then press the “Next” button. Press “Next” after it has found your new hardware drivers. - 18 -...

  • Page 19: Windows 2000

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Press “Finish” to complete your new hardware driver installation. You should now see a new drive letter under “My Computer”. Windows 2000 Power on your computer and wait until Windows has fully loaded. Power on your CD-RW drive FIRST, and then plug the USB cable from the back of the CD-RW drive into your computer’s USB port.
  • Page 20 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Your computer should find the new hardware and bring up the “Found New Hardware Wizard” window. Press the “Next” button. Select the “Search for a suitable drive” option and press the “Next” button. - 20 -...
  • Page 21 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Put a check box on “Specify a location”, and uncheck everything else. Then press the “Next” button. Hit the “Browse” button and select “A:\Win98&2000” where A is your floppy drive letter. Then press the “OK” button. - 21 -...
  • Page 22 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Press “Next” after it has found your new hardware drivers. Press “Finish” to complete your new hardware driver installation. You should now see a new drive letter under “My Computer”. - 22 -...

  • Page 23: Software Installation

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Software Installation The bundled mastering software gives you the complete solution for making CDs right from your desktop. Nero–Burning ROM, allows you to copy files from your computer to a recordable compact disc (Nero-Burning ROM uses a special write-once media that provides permanent data storage in a format that is readable on virtually all CD-Recordable (CD-R) and CD-ROM drives.

  • Page 24: Nero Burning Rom Installation

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide incarnation of the compact disc, used to digitally record and play back music at unprecedented quality. The standard under which CD-DA discs are recorded is known as the Red Book (see Glossary for information). CD Extra •...

  • Page 25: Using Nero Burning Rom

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Using Nero Burning Rom Nero is a very professional package that gives you many features not found in other recording software packages. In the following paragraphs, you’ll be introduce to the Nero-Burning ROM interface as well as step by step instructions on how to record CD-R / CD-RW media.

  • Page 26: Nero-Burning Rom Interface

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Nero-Burning ROM interface This is the screen that you’ll get when you first start Nero-Burn ROM. From here, you’ll be able to do the following: Burn disc Images • Make CD Boot Discs • Create DOS/MAC Hybrid discs (great for cross platform software •...

  • Page 27: Creating A Data Cd (Iso)

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Creating a Data CD (ISO) We will leave all the options with their default settings. For detailed information, please refer to the Reference Chapter in the manual. The manual is on the Nero-CD in the form of an Acrobat document. 1.

  • Page 28: Creating An Audio Cd

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Creating an Audio CD To write your own Audio CD, you can choose between two methods: 1. The first one Compiling .CDA audio files “on the fly” allows you to extract audio files (.cda) “on the fly” from several CDs, without having to save them first on your hard disc.
  • Page 29 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide 6. Using drag & drop, compile the files by clicking on the desired files with the mouse and then dragging them into the audio compilation window. Note: By compiling the selected audio tracks, Nero will analyze the track’s information.

  • Page 30: Writing Mode: Disc-At-Once

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Writing mode: Disc-at-Once We will leave all the options with their default settings. For detailed information, please refer to the Reference Chapter in the Nero-Burning ROM manual. Carefully follow the instructions. 1. If the audio tracks you want to write to a CD are not in a Wav. Format, please save them first into this format (see Saving audio tracks).

  • Page 31: Duplicating Acd

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Duplicating a CD You can choose between two methods if you want to copy a CD. 1. The image copy: The original CD will be read from the recorder and Nero will then create and save an image file, with the contents of your CD, to e.g.

  • Page 32: Copying Acd

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide read audio tracks perfectly and won’t “hang up“ (see above) between the data and audio track of a mixed mode CD. 5. Don’t care if audio index positions get lost. 6. Have lots of empty CD recordable CD-R. 7.

  • Page 33: Saving Audio Tracks

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Saving Audio Tracks The tracks on your audio CDs are in CDA format. You can save these tracks onto your system as WAV files. To do this, follow the instructions below: 1. Insert an audio CD into the CD ReWritable drive. 2.

  • Page 34: Troubleshooting

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Troubleshooting The following section describes common problems you may encounter, along with some suggestions for resolving them. Q: The CD-ReWriter doesn’t show up in My Computer or Explorer. The following steps will assist you to get your drive to work as a CD-ROM: If you cannot find CD-ReWriter in Explorer, restart your computer, •...
  • Page 35 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Q: What are possible causes of buffer underrun Hard Disk Extremely fragmented hard drive. • Not enough space in temporary directory. • Hard disk compression may cause buffer underruns. We do not • recommend writing from a compressed hard disk or disk partition. "Dumb"...
  • Page 36 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide It may be necessary to write audio at slower speeds than those • you can achieve for data, since writing CD-DA audio requires streaming more bits per second to the recorder. Record in lower speed – it takes linger time to empty the buffer •...
  • Page 37 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Refresh the screen. Select the My Computer icon in Windows • Explorer and press F5. Make sure if your CD-ROM drive reads CD-RW discs. CD-RW discs • can only be used in CD-ReWriter or newer MultiRead CD-ROM. See if the CD-ReWriter or other CD-ROM drives can read the CD •...
  • Page 38 External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Q: How come my computer does not detect the CD-RW drive when I connect it to a USB hub? Some USB hubs may not be able to detect the CDRW drive. In which case, you will have to connect the USB cable directly to the USB port of your computer system NOTE: The above are only GENERAL rules, which does not necessarily...

  • Page 39: Limited Warranty

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Limited Warranty Hardware Limited Warranty This product is warranted to be free from failures due to defects in material and workmanship for one year from the date of original purchase as evidenced by a copy of the purchase receipt. During the warranty period, I/OMagic at its sole discretion will repair or replace at no charge, the product that, in its opinion, is defective.

  • Page 40: Contacting I/Omagic

    External USB CD-RW User’s Guide Contacting I/OMagic If you experience problems with this I/OMagic product and you cannot find an answer in the previous troubleshooting sections, you can contact I/OMagic’s Technical Support Staff. Please have the following information ready when you call: The name of the product you are having problems with.
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