DVD problems

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From: "Tony Williams" <tw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:38:14 -0000

I have 2 dvd drives in my machine, a Lite-on and a Philips. Both are dvd rw
+/- However when I insert a Packard Bell DVD-RW disc both drives show in
Explorer as cd drives and when I try to save a file to either of them I get
a message saying please insert cdrom. Any one any ideas why this happens?
Thanks
Tony

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