OS Not Identifying Optical Drive Correctly

wixostrix

wixostrix

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I have two optical drives on my computer, one a DVD/CD-RW Combo and the other a DVD-RW and my OS is not identifying them as burners just standard cd-rom drives. Does anyone have a solution to this? Also, they have no name brands and I havent had any problem in the past like this. Usually when I install a new OS it just works.
 
no, i havent yet installed my nero, but when i tried to burn a cd in win media player it said no burners detected and when i tired to add files to a cd in windows explorer it dosent reconize them as burners
 
What do you see in the bios posts for drives there? Are the jumper set correctly? If they are you most likely have a Windows related problem. With a bad install seeing a number of errors Windows probably the secondary ide mode to PIO instead of DMA.
 
Go to my computer, right click on the drive, click properties and see if Enable recording on this drive is checked
 
Archangel said:
how do you mean not as burners?

have you tried burning a CD using Nero or so yet?
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I installed nero and it burns like regular but windows still doesnt see them as burners so i cant use win media player to burn music or windows explorer. I guess its a windows problem.​

StrangleHold said:
Go to my computer, right click on the drive, click properties and see if Enable recording on this drive is checked
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Tired that and since windows doesnt detect them as burners the option isnt ever available.​
 
Do you have an XP installation disk onhand? You should still have the system file checker. It looks like the explorer.exe or another system file was damaged somehow where you are not seeing the full hardware detection process working. To start up the file checker type "sfc /scannow" at the Run prompt and press enter with the disk in the drive.

This will take several minutes at times so expect that. Any of the essential files found damaged or missing will be recopied from the installation disk during the file scan and verfication process there. When that finished restart the system and see if the problem is still seen.
 
PC eye said:
Do you have an XP installation disk onhand? You should still have the system file checker. It looks like the explorer.exe or another system file was damaged somehow where you are not seeing the full hardware detection process working. To start up the file checker type "sfc /scannow" at the Run prompt and press enter with the disk in the drive.

This will take several minutes at times so expect that. Any of the essential files found damaged or missing will be recopied from the installation disk during the file scan and verfication process there. When that finished restart the system and see if the problem is still seen.
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ok thanks ill try that
 
One thing other thing you can look at is the cd drives listed in the device manager and right click on any seen to choose the update driver or uninstall option. With the update driver option try to have Windows redetect the drives there. Or you can uninstall the listings there and restart the system to see if Windows will correctly detect them as new hardware found.
 
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