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Summary: Below average, better buy another brand
Review: I purchased the product partly because of the low price. I could write a few CD's under Win 98 (sometimes the program just stopped running, and I had to turn off the computer, then turned on again to remove the disk--to throw it away). But I had a HD crash, and I switched to Win NT 4. Since then, I have had problems using Nero. It could not write on CDR, (honestly, very rarely it could write, but afterwards when the CD is read, it is really slow, or none at all). My tentative conclusion is that the software (Nero) is not quite compatible with Win NT4 (an update from .... I installed did not solve the problem). I plan to buy another brand-name product in the near future to replace the unused Blaster CDRW, in which the writing software is not Nero.
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Summary: Save Your Money
Review: I purchased this 8432 model and found little support online from Creative. The software that comes with it is junk at best. Nero Buring. I tried to install Abtec software it doesn't support this model either. By the way Creative has made three models of the 8432. So I purchased a Plextor 10/12/32 that comes with the abtec software and it is GREAT. Buring copy's, copying files and backing up software, it is so easy to operate. By the way I am running Windows ME. Don't waste your money on this Model 8432. Spend the extra forty bucks and get something that will do the job for you and supports Abtec Buring software.
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Summary: Happy 3 months after hell
Review: I received the 4214 due to a 20.00 off coupon and began making coasters immediately. I never in my wildest dreams thought I could create coasters in the privacy of my home & can now die happy. To make the dream even more sweet I purchased Adaptec Easy Cd 4.1 & was making fewer coasters (darn) but still made some after 5 calls to Creatives answer to long distance carriers dreams (20+ minute hold minimum) they agreed to replace the obviously defective unit but they insisted on sending a refurbished unit further they forced me to speak to several people in order to convince them to accept a credit card # so as to reduce my wait time (they wanted me to return the defective unit) wait for them to diagnose it's malady & then after verifying that it was faulty replace it. I am convinced it is only because I have 2000.00 of their stuff that they sent me the drive without my first sending the old one back first. Now here's the kicker the new drive they sent is a 8433E not the 8432which I had & it is not supported by the 100.00 Adaptec software I purchased due to the Nero burning rom software which came with the burner being less than good. This took numerous long distance calls to Adaptec to detirmine. so all in all I would be forced to say DO NOT BUY THIS BURNER even though now after dounloading the update for Nero to version 5.22 it does work fine. It was far too much work & when you factor the cost of the now useless Adaptec software I paid 300.00 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DO NOT BUY THIS BURNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Shabby burner
Review: It is not so bad on XP now but on 2000 it was a nightmare. It will only really work with Nero ...It's still slow and it staggers when playing games. Also your cd-roms are very hot when they get out!!
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Summary: It works but nothing more.
Review: It works just fine with the Nero software which comes with it (Nero is good software), however the following software does not work with this CD-RW (EZ CD Creator, Music Match, MP3CD and I'm sure there are more.) So right now I rate it 4 stars since the Nero software can do everything I need to do, but it has been reduced to 2 star due to extremely poor, almost non-existing support for Creative Labs. My last Creative Labs Product.
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Summary: great burner for the price
Review: This burner is great for the money but has 2 problem's if you are running a computer below a pentium 3 do not buy this burner if you do buy it (with a slow computer) the software will not run good. If you are running a fast computer like mine (a pentium 3 128 RAM) you will like this burner. 1 more problem if you are going to copy CD's this burner does not work well with DVD ROM's because I have a DVD ROM on my computer and sometimes it crack's a lot (the burned CD) but that problem can be fixed just go to "My Computer" and device manager and change the drive name then the cracking will go away. If you are a mp3 fan like me you will love this burner it can burn 15 to 20 songs to one CD-R. This is truey a great burner.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY
Review: This is a huge waste of money, and I did not even think that they still sold this product. I bought this about a year ago since I trusted Creative, but I guess I shouldn't have. First of all I would like to say I received 150 cds as a gift from different people all of the same brand. They would work fine on a friends burner but this burner said it did not even recognize that there was a cd in the burner...The only type of cd that would work was fujifilm. Now it does this for every cd and will not recognize ANY type of cd (blank, cds I made, nor software or music cds). It just makes this high pitch whistle. I am very disappointed
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Summary: Creative has Failed me
Review: This product seemed like a godsend at first. It was 20 dollars cheaper then the HP burner and although I heard great things about the HP burner I got the Creative one. What a pile. The nero program was either a pile or the burner itself. And the customer support? Damn I was on hold for 20 minutes. I eventually hung up. Don't get me wrong, it burned software fine. But it also made 7 coasters when it came to making audio cd's. I tried mp3 to audio cd, cd to cd, and wave to audio cd. One of them came out fine. The rest all got a cdb error. It would get to the first or second track and then come back with a buffer error or a cdb error. I went to Neros troubleshooting page and read up on it. This error is a bad one. It could be caused by a million things. And as a consumer I don't have the time to do hours of troubleshooting on a product. This may be a simple fix but after being put on hold forever and after it ruined 9 cdr's I gave up. I packed it in it's box and sent it on it's way. Everyone says HP is the best and I'm going to try and see.
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Summary: YOU CAN'T MISS
Review: Well, to be perfectly honest, I had my doubts about purchasing a cd-burner; but then I realized how great they were when I saw my friend burn a cd on his. What really amazed me was how the quality of a recorded audio cd is the same as the master! I bought this burner because it was the most conservative buy. You get the name (Creative), the speed, and decent software/support all for a price thats right in the middle. I also strongly believe that one can't really go wrong with Creative Labs products. Besides, they have the coolest packaging of any brand :-) Seriously though, its whats familiar ... something you can trust (the blue and orange box). I have had no problems so far with the burner itself (it's awesome). The only gripe I have is that the software could be better. It's sort of like trying to learn the basics of DOS all over again. Don't get me wrong, I am fluent with computers, but in todays world I really shouldn't have to READ the directions. Usually I can just use them for reference; not with this stuff. Once you learn it though, it works.
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Summary: Great Cd Burner, works flawlessly.
Review: What can I say, it's fast AND reliable. I've never had a failed burn out of 50 or so. Comes with awesome software by a company named AHEAD, called "Nero Burning ROM." It works great. Want to make an audio cd out of mp3s? Just drag then from your hard drive over to the cd and that's it! Copy a CD? Just hit copy and you'll have an identical copy. It works great, not a single problem installing. Buy this over a Hewlett Packard. HP has horrible customer service. There is not a single toll free tech support line. This burner is awesome, I highly recommend it.
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