I am trying to get a CD or DVD drive to burn CD's again. Both worked about a
week ago. The CD drive is internal and original. I checked the IDE cable and
reseated them. It does not recognize any CD but will do an eject if I right
click and then press eject. The DVD burner is USB (new Pioneer) and will play
a music CD but when a blank is put in to burn data, it says it is
unrecognized. It will not recognize a data CD either.

I tried the USB DVD in another computer and it works fine. I updated the PC
with the non-working devices with all the latest windows updates, Norton
antivirus software and anti-spyware software and did not notice any
significant issues.

I read in another post to make sure the recording checkbox in properties
were checked and they were.

I read also that recording software could cause a problem (Nero) which was
installed when the USB DVD drive was installed. I did not unistall that
software yet.

Anything else I should look at? Thanks in advance.

Bob, go here http://www.dougknox.com/xp/xp_fixes.html rt column
about 11 down. Restore Dvd/Cd drives to Explorer. Try that fix. If it
doesnt work then try rt clicking MyComputer>select
Properties>Hardware>Device Manager>Dvd/Cdrom drives>your drive. rt click and
choose Unistall. The same with ALL the USB Controllers. Restart
and let XP reinstall them.
"Bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2CC46708-6F8F-400F-90AB-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am trying to get a CD or DVD drive to burn CD's again. Both worked about
>a
> week ago. The CD drive is internal and original. I checked the IDE cable
> and
> reseated them. It does not recognize any CD but will do an eject if I
> right
> click and then press eject. The DVD burner is USB (new Pioneer) and will
> play
> a music CD but when a blank is put in to burn data, it says it is
> unrecognized. It will not recognize a data CD either.
>
> I tried the USB DVD in another computer and it works fine. I updated the
> PC
> with the non-working devices with all the latest windows updates, Norton
> antivirus software and anti-spyware software and did not notice any
> significant issues.
>
> I read in another post to make sure the recording checkbox in properties
> were checked and they were.
>
> I read also that recording software could cause a problem (Nero) which was
> installed when the USB DVD drive was installed. I did not unistall that
> software yet.
>
> Anything else I should look at? Thanks in advance.

Rich,

Thanks I will give those a try. I appreciate the help. I will let you know.

Bob

"Rich Barry" wrote:

> Bob, go here http://www.dougknox.com/xp/xp_fixes.html rt column
> about 11 down. Restore Dvd/Cd drives to Explorer. Try that fix. If it
> doesnt work then try rt clicking MyComputer>select
> Properties>Hardware>Device Manager>Dvd/Cdrom drives>your drive. rt click and
> choose Unistall. The same with ALL the USB Controllers. Restart
> and let XP reinstall them.
> "Bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2CC46708-6F8F-400F-90AB-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I am trying to get a CD or DVD drive to burn CD's again. Both worked about
> >a
> > week ago. The CD drive is internal and original. I checked the IDE cable
> > and
> > reseated them. It does not recognize any CD but will do an eject if I
> > right
> > click and then press eject. The DVD burner is USB (new Pioneer) and will
> > play
> > a music CD but when a blank is put in to burn data, it says it is
> > unrecognized. It will not recognize a data CD either.
> >
> > I tried the USB DVD in another computer and it works fine. I updated the
> > PC
> > with the non-working devices with all the latest windows updates, Norton
> > antivirus software and anti-spyware software and did not notice any
> > significant issues.
> >
> > I read in another post to make sure the recording checkbox in properties
> > were checked and they were.
> >
> > I read also that recording software could cause a problem (Nero) which was
> > installed when the USB DVD drive was installed. I did not unistall that
> > software yet.
> >
> > Anything else I should look at? Thanks in advance.
>
>
>