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Vidur Sood
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      14th Aug 2004
Hello all!

I have a Pioneer DVD A03 drive in an external Firewire
enclosure connected via a Firewire (IEEE 1394) card in my
Sony VAIO (PCV-L400) OLD 400Mhz Pentium 2 computer. I'm
running Windows XP Sp1 Home Edition, but somehow the
Operating System sees the DVD drive as a cd drive and
does not allow me to burn DVD's.

Are external Firewire drives not supported under XP? Do I
need to download some drivers or something? What can I
do? Do I have to wait for the new Windows Update? When
will the new update actually show up??

Thanks,

Vidur
 
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      14th Aug 2004


"Vidur Sood" wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I have a Pioneer DVD A03 drive in an external Firewire
> enclosure connected via a Firewire (IEEE 1394) card in my
> Sony VAIO (PCV-L400) OLD 400Mhz Pentium 2 computer. I'm
> running Windows XP Sp1 Home Edition, but somehow the
> Operating System sees the DVD drive as a cd drive and
> does not allow me to burn DVD's.
>
> Are external Firewire drives not supported under XP? Do I
> need to download some drivers or something? What can I
> do? Do I have to wait for the new Windows Update? When
> will the new update actually show up??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vidur
>

What burning software are you using?
The native one on XP does not support DVD burning

My external shows up and can burn only if I'm burning CD-R's and have
enable recording set in the drives properties.Only 1 drive can be set at any
time. Unless you are unsing a third party's burning software.
 
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      14th Aug 2004
Hmm,

Interesting, I haven't changed the drive properties yet,
but I also tried using Nero and it doesn't even see the
DVD-Rom drive while Windows does - in my computer -
Windows thinks it's a cd-rom. Are you saying I should
disable cd burning on my internal cd rom drive and enable
burning on my external dvd-rom drive and then try Nero, I
suspect Nero will still not see the drive at all.

Vidur


>-----Original Message-----
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>
>"Vidur Sood" wrote:
>
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I have a Pioneer DVD A03 drive in an external Firewire
>> enclosure connected via a Firewire (IEEE 1394) card in

my
>> Sony VAIO (PCV-L400) OLD 400Mhz Pentium 2 computer.

I'm
>> running Windows XP Sp1 Home Edition, but somehow the
>> Operating System sees the DVD drive as a cd drive and
>> does not allow me to burn DVD's.
>>
>> Are external Firewire drives not supported under XP?

Do I
>> need to download some drivers or something? What can I
>> do? Do I have to wait for the new Windows Update? When
>> will the new update actually show up??
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Vidur
>>

>What burning software are you using?
>The native one on XP does not support DVD burning
>
>My external shows up and can burn only if I'm burning

CD-R's and have
>enable recording set in the drives properties.Only 1

drive can be set at any
>time. Unless you are unsing a third party's burning

software.
>.
>

 
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