XP does not recognize my CD/DVD drive as RW. I tired
deleting the upper and lower keys in the registry, but it
end up recognizing it as CDROM and not as RW. I can still
burn Music CD's using RealPlayer. But many other
applications including XP fails to recognize it as a RW
device. My drive is Philips CDD5301. Any help in this
regard would be highly appreciated.

Kalki wrote:
> XP does not recognize my CD/DVD drive as RW. I tired
> deleting the upper and lower keys in the registry, but it
> end up recognizing it as CDROM and not as RW. I can still
> burn Music CD's using RealPlayer. But many other
> applications including XP fails to recognize it as a RW
> device. My drive is Philips CDD5301. Any help in this
> regard would be highly appreciated.


The Device Manager will list your drive under DVD/CD-ROM drives. If you can
both read and write to CD-R/RW and read DVDs, it's working properly. Can you
do both ? If this is not the case, please clarify.

Yes the device manager lists it as DVD/CD-ROM. I am able to read all discs but write to it using only Real Player now. RecordNow, Windows Media Player, and other software does not recognize it as a RW drive and so I am unable to use those. When I insert a blank CD and try to explore it is says E:\not accessible. The icon on my computer then changes to CDROM. All other times it is listed as 'DVD/CD-RW'. Also there is no recording tab in the drive properties. In Regdit the device type value is set to '2'.