Re: DVD-RW shows up as CD Drive in Windows Explorer (WinXp)

In a previous response to McCarty you said, "The Sony is hooked up as the Master
on the secondary IDE channel (there's nothing on after that as slave) and the
external is hooked up through a firewire port on the back of the computer."

You may want to configure the Sony as a single unit rather than a master since
you don't have a slave unit on the IDE channel.


"Wisconsin Help?" <WisconsinHelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hey Gang,

I'm going back to another reinstall of XP... I spoke too soon... Nero would
read the drive as a burner, but I couldn't do anything with the software and
it would lock up and freeze. I couldn't even get the task manager to unhang
teh program.

So, I'm doing another XP install/recovery with a full format. If that
doesn't do it, what other option is there? I borrowed a 3rd DVD burner from
a friend that is a USB hookup and that doesn't work either.

Why would XP suddenly not be able to recognize a DVD burner... even tho just
a few weeks ago it could?

"Wisconsin Help?" wrote:

Hey Gang,

Long time reader, first time poster....

I normally would consider myself relatively computer saavy, however, I've
got a problem that I haven't been able to fix... even after a complete and
destructive WinXp Re-install.

I have 2 DVD Burners, one an external DVD burner and the other is a brand
new Sony DRU-190A that are both showing up as CD Drives in Windows Explorer.
However, with Nero, they show up as DVD Burners/Drives.

I am running Win Xp Media Center 2005 with a new, clean install. I need to
fix this because I use the Media Center software to record shows during the
week for work and from what I've been able to read, only Media Center can
burn the recorded shows off of media center.

Is there some way of getting these 2 drives to recognize correctly? I've
already uninstalled the drives from the Device Manager and they still didn't
come back correctly.

Thanks all...


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