My computer won't recognise my dvd burners as burners. it says they are just dvd-ram drives (and sometimes only cd-rom) tht are capable of reading but not writing. Nero can burn with the drives but when i tried putting a cd i burned with it into a cd player, it didnt work. Zune software and Windows Media player also both tell me to connect a burner and restart the software when i click the burn tabs. I have two dvd burners connected.
My Computer Won't Recognise My DVD Burners
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microchipper
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do you have drivers for them installed and updated?
Lol. actually, no. in the past, i'd just plug them in and they'd work perfectly by themselves. i tried going to hardware manager and downloading drivers from there before, but i didnt see where to do tht.
edit: i restarted the comp and this time there was a place on the device manager for cd/dvd roms. however, i tried updating the drivers automatically and it found nothing. they both seem to have the same, very generic drivers by microsoft made on july of 2001.
edit: i restarted the comp and this time there was a place on the device manager for cd/dvd roms. however, i tried updating the drivers automatically and it found nothing. they both seem to have the same, very generic drivers by microsoft made on july of 2001.
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elitehacker
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Windows should have generic drivers for optical drivers. I just plug it in, restart and it just works.
yeah, usually i just have to connect them and they work "plug and play"- like. but this time they are detected as regular drives. maybe ill try switching the slave and master and see if it picks them up differently after reinstalling the drives.
jw. is there any advantage over having a drive as master instead of slave?
jw. is there any advantage over having a drive as master instead of slave?
Nope, unless you count different drive letters and Master optical drive booting on older computers (in other words the master is the only optical drive you can boot to on older computres)