I installed a new CD writer in an XP system and whilst it will read and play
a CD, I cannot get XP to recognise it to write to.
Can anyone advise what the jumper settings should be. (It is a SONY CD
writer).
Thanks in advance

What's the model number of the CD Writer you installed?


"CRISPY" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I installed a new CD writer in an XP system and whilst it will read and
>play a CD, I cannot get XP to recognise it to write to.
> Can anyone advise what the jumper settings should be. (It is a SONY CD
> writer).
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>

Click Start> Control Panel> System> Hardware tab> Device Manager button.
In Device Manager, expand the DVD/CD-ROM Drives category, and tell us exactly what
it shows there for the new Sony drive, and for any other optical drive you have
installed.

Click Start> My Computer, right-click the Sony drive icon and click Properties.
Does it have a Recording tab?

If you are trying to drag and drop files to the Sony drive, using Windows XP's
native burning capability, you need to check the box for "Enable CD recording on
this drive", and click OK all the way out.

Do you have any third-party CD burning software installed?

The drive jumper setting will vary depending on how and where the drive is
connected.

If the drive is the only one on the data ribbon cable, you would set the drive
jumper to Master.

If the drive is sharing the ribbon cable with another optical drive, it can be set
to slave; but if the other drive is NOT a burner, you should make the writer the
master and re-jumper the non-burner drive to slave.

If the Sony is on the same cable with hard drive, set the Sony to slave.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
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"CRISPY" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I installed a new CD writer in an XP system and whilst it will read and play a CD,
>I cannot get XP to recognise it to write to.
> Can anyone advise what the jumper settings should be. (It is a SONY CD writer).
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>

The model number is a Sony CDU5221

"Mark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> What's the model number of the CD Writer you installed?
>
>
> "CRISPY" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I installed a new CD writer in an XP system and whilst it will read and
>>play a CD, I cannot get XP to recognise it to write to.
>> Can anyone advise what the jumper settings should be. (It is a SONY CD
>> writer).
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>
>

That's an old CD-ROM drive, not a burner. It is a read-only drive.....you cannot
write to CDs with it. That's why it isn't recognised by Windows as a writer,
because it isn't a writer.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"CRISPY" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The model number is a Sony CDU5221
>
> "Mark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> What's the model number of the CD Writer you installed?
>>
>>
>> "CRISPY" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>I installed a new CD writer in an XP system and whilst it will read and play a
>>>CD, I cannot get XP to recognise it to write to.
>>> Can anyone advise what the jumper settings should be. (It is a SONY CD writer).
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

The CDU5221 cannot write, it is a reader only. Sorry.

Mark

"CRISPY" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The model number is a Sony CDU5221
>
> "Mark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> What's the model number of the CD Writer you installed?
>>
>>
>> "CRISPY" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>I installed a new CD writer in an XP system and whilst it will read and
>>>play a CD, I cannot get XP to recognise it to write to.
>>> Can anyone advise what the jumper settings should be. (It is a SONY CD
>>> writer).
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>