WMP Won't Recognize --> TROUBLE!

ScottALot

ScottALot

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I have the newest version of WMP (11 I think) and when trying to burn CDs with music, it says "Connect a burner and restart the player". I know I have a DVD burner because I looked back at my NewEgg shopping cart and it said Samsung DVD Burner "bla bla bla". After reading countless online tutorials, I found a problem. One tutorial said to uninstall the CD/DVD Driver and some IDE drivers. I looked where he told me to look (services.msg IIRC) and those drivers weren't there in the first place. I downloaded the Samsung Drivers, but they say there's no DVD Burner connected and now My Computer won't recognize the burner.

http://club.myce.com/f3/wmp-11-connect-burner-restart-player-200198/ post 11 said to go to Add Devices in the Control Panel to regain my drivers, but I don't think I'm using the right Add Devices because mine is looking for Network and Wireless devices...

I'm a hardware junkie and a software noob... care to help?
 
Look in Device Manager and see if its listed. If it is, right click on it and click Uninstall, reboot and see if that fixed it. If that doesnt fix it and its listed, right click the controller its on and click uninstall and reboot and is what happens.
 
Scott, I had this problem when I had Daemon Tools emulate a virtual drive. For some reason, WMP kept saying the exact same message over and over again. I thought about it for a minute and tried disabling Daemon. When I shut it off and all of the sudden I could burn again, without a restart and without closing WMP. The solution you posted, could it have been because you don't have Daemon start when you boot? Just curious as to whether you use Daemon or any other virtual drive simulator because this happened to me two days ago.
 
Sounds like your upper/lower filters may have become corrupted(certain image burning softwares can do that), uninstalling the device in device manager would have flushed the upper/lower filters which is why it now is working. There are ways to manually do that via the registry as well though.
 
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