Easy CD & DVD Creator 6

by Roxio

Product Features

• Capture, organize, edit, burn and share music, data, photo and video on CD or DVD
• Make DVD home movies or photo slide shows and burn to DVD, VCD or SVCD
• Fix images with easy-to-use tools and create electronic photo albums
• Automatic disc formatting and burning by simply dragging and dropping files
• Make personalized CD labels, jewel case inserts and DVD case covers

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000099SKV
• Item model number: 2100994
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 18, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,964 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #27 in Software > Video & Music > CD Burning & Labeling > Mastering & Burning
  • #31 in Software > Video & Music > Digital Video > Compositing & Effects
  • #94 in Software > Video & Music > DVD Viewing & Authoring

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Permanently destroys drive configuration, September 20, 2003

By 

Matthew H. Sawyer (Shelby Township, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 (CD-ROM)

I got Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 bundled with a DVD+/-RW drive. Needless to say, I was eager to get burning. I've used Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 for 1.5 years and have been very happy. But, that's neither here nor there. I'll 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 didn't show a letter and those that did show a letter, appeared twice in Windows Explorer. Windows was notifying me that \System Volume Information\tracking.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. I'm going back to version 5.

For kicks, since I knew I'd need to reinstall XP again, I tried to delete the system partition. It let me.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beta version passing as full retail version, September 12, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 (CD-ROM)

I have never bought a piece of software that works SO badly. It turns out the product is extraordinarily particular about which drives it supports, which brand of media, etc. And the list of known issues with mainline software (listed on their 'README' offered to you during the installation) is staggering. My experience with Roxio CD and DVD Creator would be comical if it were'nt so sad. I would be extremely wary of this product...if you could see the type and frequency of problems and complaints in the Roxio web discussion groups, you'd be shocked that this product isn't being recalled. It should be. An utter waste of money.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Easy CD Creator 6 is Anything But -- Stay Away!, January 13, 2004

By 

Saxkat (Walnut Creek, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 (CD-ROM)

This 6th version of Easy CD Creator is worthless, plain and simple. I could not get it to run on a brand new Dell Pentium machine no matter how clean the install was, or how many times I uninstalled and reinstalled it. Roxio technical support was useless. I cannot comprehend know how this software made it through beta testing, much less to the street. After 5 useful versions of Easy CD Creator, it's hard to fathom how Roxio went so wrong, but their reputation will be taking a large hit as a result of this disaster.