CD Burner Does Not Exist in Registry

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astrozombie

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Hey guys. Haven't been here in a while. I need to get some important data burnt today and I'm having an issue. I realize that certain things are prohibited here, and I'm not promoting piracy or anything like that, but the fact is that I have a "special" hacked version of Windows XP Pro which is missing a lot of things. It has pretty much all the essentials I think, except for, which I found out today, the ability to burn anything :mad:.

I was getting an error message that I found quite a few others received as well: "DRIVE:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function." When I looked at the properties of the drive to set it to be able to burn, I saw I had no "Recording" tab. I Googled up a bunch of forums and help sites and eventually found my way to this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316529/.

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Expand the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\Drives
4. On the File menu, click Export.
5. In the File name box, type backup of drives key, and then click Save.

Note You can restore this registry subkey by double-clicking the backup of drives key.reg file that you saved.
6. In the left pane of the Registry Editor window, click the Volume{GUID} folder under Drives, where GUID is a 32-character hexadecimal globally unique identifier.

Note If you have more than one CD-ROM drive in the computer, an additional Volume{GUID} folder is listed for each drive.
7. In the right pane of the Registry Editor window, double-click Drive Type.
8. In the Value data box, type 1 or 2, depending on the drive type, and then click OK.

The drive type should be 1 if it is a CD-R and 2 if it is a CD-RW.
9. Quit Registry Editor.
10. Click Start, and then click My Computer.
11. Under Devices with Removable Storage, right-click the CD-R drive or CD-RW drive, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu.
12. If the Recording tab is displayed, Windows recognizes the drive as a recordable device.
13. Click Cancel.
Click to expand...

I was merely at step 3 when I realized that I HAVE NO "DRIVES" KEY. My registry reads "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\ExcludedFS." Excluded huh? EXCLUDED :mad::(:mad: I know that this has something to do with my hacked OS, but I have no idea how to fix it. If I'm completely out of line with this request please forgive me, but this data is reeaaallly important and I gotta find a way around this stupid problem.

Jen
 
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