Re: No destination drive when trying to burn a DVD

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Really? Millions of people are using P3 laptops? OK so that we do
not get off on the wrong foot here, do me a favor please, go to a
state of the art (or greater then a P3) LAPTOP with XP PRO, open
device manager, open the DVDRW device, go to properties Q1: What is
the manufacture?, then go to driver Q2: Who is the provider and
what date?, click on update the driver, click update driver and
choose not to update from the net, choose the advanced option,
choose don't search and click next Q3: What is in your list? Are
there any DVDRW's?

Now if you have a P3 could you please repeat the process and post,
in my list there are no CDRW's or DVD's or DVDRW's. I am going to
go to IBM's site and see if I can get the latest chipset and try to
manually install..

If you could do this for me I would appreciate is, understand that
I have been doing this for over 30 years since the days of DOS....
TY Steve

Chosen the "be an @$$" route, eh? Okay - good luck to you, I'm done trying
to give you the logical way of troubleshooting your issue.

I have found that time at doing something and ability doing something do not
necessarily following the same upward moving trend... Especially in
computing. ;-) Things change too quickly. So you could use MIDAS, MS-DOS,
OS/2 etc and so on - that really does not equate to being able to solve a
problem with your CD burner using software that was never available for any
of those things and hardware that wasn't either.

You have no idea how long I have been doing this, if I used punch cards or
what - but that does not make a difference. This is logic - this has
nothing to do with your supposed knowledge of computing operating systems,
programming languages or the such - this is troubleshooting skills that can
be applied to practically any issue.

So now you think the issue has to do with the fact you have a P3
processor-based laptop and not Windows XP SP3 and its patches? My point was
that millions of people have Windows XP with SP3 and patches and CD/DVD
burners.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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