Easy CD & DVD Creator 6

I got Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 bundled with a DVD+/-RW drive. Needless to say, I was eager to get burning. Ive used Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 for 1.5 years and have been very happy. But, thats neither here nor there. Ill cut to the chase. After installing, I found that all of my hard drives and partitions had been assigned new drive letters, seemingly at random. Furthermore, in Disk Management, most partitions didnt show a letter and those that did show a letter, appeared twice in Windows Explorer. Windows was notifying me that System Volume Information racking.log was corrupt and that I needed to run chkdsk. To make matters worse, Windows no longer identified my system boot drive with the (System) designation, meaning I could delete the partition if I wanted! Uninstalling did not resolve this, so I backed up all my data to an external disk. I then performed a fresh install of Windows XP. I then installed Service Pack 1 and all critical updates. I also installed DirectX 9.0b and Windows Media Player 9. After that, I installed Office XP, followed by Easy CD & DVD Creator 6. I rebooted, and found the exact same problem. Clearly there is some serious problem with this software. Im going back to version 5. For kicks, since I knew Id need to reinstall XP again, I tried to delete the system partition. It let me. A bug this serious shouldve been caught before beta testing.

Im both relieved and bummed to find so many others have experienced the same catastrophe I did in installing this product. It came bundled with a DVD burner from one of THE top names in the industry, and it shuffled my folders across my partitioned hard drive like a drunken poker player. Windows even lost all sight of a 60gig external hard drive -- it would dutifully beep in hardware recognition when I unplugged and replugged the drive into its firewire port, but the drive itself might as well have been in the Phantom Zone. Until Roxio makes clear -- In. No. Uncertain. Terms. -- that this issue has been fixed, I would not recommend the product to anyone but my boss at work.

Received Easy CD&DVD Creator6 Platinum for Christmas because I had really liked version 4. Have not been able to get a complete install on it to date, and the parts that did install didnt function right. Went to Roxios support site & found that many purchasers had same[and many other]problems. Some even had to restore their PC. Sent Emails to their tech support and received one answer so far. It took 11 DAYS for them to answer, and it was just a bunch of babble,nothing to do with the problem. I have uninstalled&deleted everything I can find related to it on my PC, and thrown the blasted thing away. I will NEVER buy another ROXIO product again.

This is the first time I have ever written a review. If you have roxio version 5, stick with it, the patches from the site works fine. Dont ever buy Roxio 6. I dont even have to work for Roxio company to give it good ratings. Roxio needs to fix their bugs before making their real profits. Roxio version 6 crashed all my CD DVD drives leaving just my hard drive to work on. What a pain to re-install OS and everything that you need to get you going on your computer.

Excelente programa, las funciones basicas similares a la version 5. Para creacion de DVD muy bueno y sencillo de manejar, menus animados y otras caracteristicas excelentes para personas que crean DVD personales.

I received the free version of Easy CD & DVD creator that came with my PC and it caused nothing but problems. After installing it and testing out the features I used the add remove programs to remove everything except the basic burning software. After rebooting I got an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. A google search using the error code showed that other users had the same problem with older versions of this software I am using version 6.1.1.7. Using the repair console and the online documentation I was able to fix the problem and get back into my system. Now when I reboot I get a DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE BSOD and the system runs check disk next time it boots. Again Roxio easy CD creator caused the problem. They have a patch for this but they seem to be keeping it a secret. ([...] My biggest complaint is that none of this information is on their tech support web site. I found it using google. Maybe they should have a [...] to let everyone know how bad this software is. They have one for Compaq ([...]

Crashed a lot and isnt compatible with newer hardware or operating systems. I ended up buying Nero and giving this away.

First of all, the only reason this even gets one star is because Direct CD and the main disc burning utility work fairly reliably - but these apps are NOT why people usually go for the upgrade. I find it hard to give a good rating based on basically the same applications as 5.0. If you have 5.x and only use these apps mainly, do not watse your money on 6.0, or at least go with something like Nero. Now, if you are looking for software to author DVDs - which alot of people are (hence the change in name from Easy CD to Easy CD DVD) - DO NOT buy this product. The DVD Builder is one of the most flawed applications, and crashes without fail at least 75% of the time. It main problmes are 1) poor user interface (i.e. too few commands and customability); and most importantly 2) not being able to remain stable while importing various types of media. I have found the DVD builder only really works well if you encode and set up the media files in some separate app, so basically the DVD builder has little to do - but if you are going through the trouble of doing all this, what is the point. To sum it up, I have tried every configuration - but DVD builder still remains unreliable and unstable - and yes, I have tried uninstalling Nero and related apps - and yes my comp has the processor and RAM power to push it; in other words, Im certain this is the app, not my comp. Go to Roxios Web site and look at their message boards and forums; youll see page after page of similar complaints. So, if you are only burning CDs, sure, this prgram is okay - but why spend extra money when you can get 5.0. If you author DVDs, youll be better off with pretty much any other program you can find.

I put in an order for this (I had version 5 on a prior PC) so that Id have some decent DVD software on my new PC. I treated the negative reviews here with skepticism. But they appear to be bang on target. So far, it has completely prevented XP from restarting (giving me a message that Windows can no longer figure out whether I have a valid license or not -- trust me, I do; and then on another reinstall hungup half-way through copying files. For something as basic as disk copying you shouldnt have to deal with the kind of problems that bleeding-edge games or other exotic software present. Even with the current rebate Im out ... because I figured it couldnt be all bad. Forget it. Ill go back to the earlier version.

Useful, but your OS should have everything that you need these days.