I installed XP Home on my HP Pavilion and it recognizes the CD-Writer Plus
Drive only as a CD-ROM. A 3rd party program will write to the drive, but I
would prefer to make XP recognize and write. Device Manager says it is a
normal CD-ROM drive M. Suggestions?

"Timothy Buchanan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I installed XP Home on my HP Pavilion and it recognizes the CD-Writer Plus
>Drive only as a CD-ROM. A 3rd party program will write to the drive, but I
>would prefer to make XP recognize and write. Device Manager says it is a
>normal CD-ROM drive M. Suggestions?
>

See "How to Troubleshoot Issues That Occur When You Write Data to a
CD-R or CD-RW Optical Disc in Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=324129) and "CD-R Drive or CD-RW
Drive Is Not Recognized As a Recordable Device"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316529).

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