Hi. I have a Philips CD-writer and a DVD-writer in my
windows XP machine. I tried every tip & trick described in
the MS knowledge base, had the hardware checked, .. the 2
drives stayed cd-roms for xp.
So with the media player & file explorer no data can be
written to one of my writer drives (reading is ok).
Only NERO recognises the "writable" drives, so the hardware
seems ok.
Anyhow, it would by nice to be able to add one file to a
CD-RW disc via a simple file explorer copy.

"Jean Samoise" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi. I have a Philips CD-writer and a DVD-writer in my
> windows XP machine. I tried every tip & trick described in
> the MS knowledge base, had the hardware checked, .. the 2
> drives stayed cd-roms for xp.
> So with the media player & file explorer no data can be
> written to one of my writer drives (reading is ok).
> Only NERO recognises the "writable" drives, so the hardware
> seems ok.
> Anyhow, it would by nice to be able to add one file to a
> CD-RW disc via a simple file explorer copy.

Have you [Enable CD recording on this drive]ed?
Start>My Computer>Rt. Click CD drive>Properties>Recording tab
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