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Summary: No end of frustration
Review: After about two months using this drive it started having problems recognizing that there was a CD in the tray, it just plain wouldn't spin up. I'd have to open and close the tray several times until FINALLY it would spin up. It was hard to tell whether it was software or hardware that was causing the difficulties. I had upgraded the software off their webpage, and updated some windows/intel chip software stuff, and it started working again for about a month. Then, back to the old problem, again. Since I wasn't using it very much from the third month on I didn't figure it was worth my time to exercise the warrantee. Go figure, about two months after the 1 year warantee expired, it stopped working completely, no more CD spinning up. The orange light in the front would do its error blinking with or without a CD in the drive, it is dead. Arrrgh. I've burned no more than 60 CD's (I counted, not just an estimate), watched about 20 DVDs, and have read about 150 CD's worth including music CDs on this drive. That is PATHETIC. I have another drive that is just CD-R, and it is now five years old, without a hitch or a hiccup. I highly recommend that people stear clear of this drive as its mechanical loading mechanism and CD recognition appears to be prone to failure.
Rating:
Summary: No end of frustration
Review: After about two months using this drive it started having problems recognizing that there was a CD in the tray, it just plain wouldn't spin up. I'd have to open and close the tray several times until FINALLY it would spin up. It was hard to tell whether it was software or hardware that was causing the difficulties. I had upgraded the software off their webpage, and updated some windows/intel chip software stuff, and it started working again for about a month. Then, back to the old problem, again. Since I wasn't using it very much from the third month on I didn't figure it was worth my time to exercise the warrantee. Go figure, about two months after the 1 year warantee expired, it stopped working completely, no more CD spinning up. The orange light in the front would do its error blinking with or without a CD in the drive, it is dead. Arrrgh. I've burned no more than 60 CD's (I counted, not just an estimate), watched about 20 DVDs, and have read about 150 CD's worth including music CDs on this drive. That is PATHETIC. I have another drive that is just CD-R, and it is now five years old, without a hitch or a hiccup. I highly recommend that people stear clear of this drive as its mechanical loading mechanism and CD recognition appears to be prone to failure.
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Summary: Not dependable
Review: I had the HP for a while, seemed great to have CD-rom, cd burner and dvd as one.
At some point, however, when you reboot the PC, sometimes the CD-Rom was disabled, or not read.
I checked "my computer" and it didn't have the cd rom icon, just A: and C:
I got tired of rebooting, hoping this time it was going to be usable.
Worst part was, when installing a windows operating system, and you need to reboot. It asked for the cd to continue, and of course it was disabled or something.
It was a hassle!
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Summary: now that it's been discontinued...
Review: Of course, mine waited almost 6 months to die permanently, and has always had problems writing CDRs that my other players and drives could read reliably. HP is perfectly willing to fix it for me, assuming I can dig out the receipts, but I'll still be out the drive for the time to send it in and hope it comes back working and it will STILL be a piece of junk. How annoying.And even these days, how often do you see a product that vanishes in under a year from release, at least a product like this with some demand...?
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Summary: now that it's been discontinued...
Review: Of course, mine waited almost 6 months to die permanently, and has always had problems writing CDRs that my other players and drives could read reliably. HP is perfectly willing to fix it for me, assuming I can dig out the receipts, but I'll still be out the drive for the time to send it in and hope it comes back working and it will STILL be a piece of junk. How annoying. And even these days, how often do you see a product that vanishes in under a year from release, at least a product like this with some demand...?
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Summary: HP 9900 DVD/CD-RW
Review: The drive works very well and it's quite fast, though not really any faster than the DVD-ROM drive it replaced (which was the piece of junk that came with my Dell PC). Spinup is fast, and the drive is very responsive, though not as fast as I had expected once it gets up to speed. I would say I love it except it sounds like a vacuum cleaner when it runs. Compounding this is the fact that it has a longer than average spindown time. The Sony CD-RW drive in the bay below it is dead quiet and it's just as fast, so I'm not sure why the HP is so loud. If it were quieter, I would give it 5 stars. ...
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Summary: think you know drives?
Review: the hp 9900 drive is amongst the few not tainted by nero burning software WITH the drivers for your cdwr built into its database. the down fall is that you can't use any nero drives with roxio software unless you get a masters degree in software deciphering.
what ever happen to the old plug and play like the 9900???
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Summary: think you know drives?
Review: The HP 9900CI is a great CD Burner and DVD Player Combined. This internal drive is easy to install (HP provides a large poster to help with installation along with the manual.) it is also very easy to use after installation thanks to the great software included. HP My CD is a great way to quickly copy a CD or burn some files off your hard drive. Roxio CD allows the CD to be used like any other drive by dragging and dropping files onto the CD. This drive also comes with music generating software (ACID) and a photo, video editing package, and I'm likely leaving something else out as well. The Burner performs great, completing a full 700MB CD in under 7 minutes (when copying from the hard drive). And the DVD drive is complimented by a very nice software DVD Player. All in all this is two great products put into one. Highly Recommended.
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Summary: Two Great Performing Drives in One
Review: The HP 9900CI is a great CD Burner and DVD Player Combined. This internal drive is easy to install (HP provides a large poster to help with installation along with the manual.) it is also very easy to use after installation thanks to the great software included. HP My CD is a great way to quickly copy a CD or burn some files off your hard drive. Roxio CD allows the CD to be used like any other drive by dragging and dropping files onto the CD. This drive also comes with music generating software (ACID) and a photo, video editing package, and I'm likely leaving something else out as well. The Burner performs great, completing a full 700MB CD in under 7 minutes (when copying from the hard drive). And the DVD drive is complimented by a very nice software DVD Player. All in all this is two great products put into one. Highly Recommended.
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Summary: Always reliable
Review: This drive has worked well consistently since Oct 2001 with daily personal use. I have no indication that it won't continue to perform well in the future.
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