Recording Tab Missing on CD-RW Properties

[James Richter]

The recording tab is missing on the properties of my CD-RW drive. How do I
get this tab back? I do have DirectCD installed on my PC.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me.

 

[Kelly]

Hi James.

Go to Start/Admin Tools/Services. Scroll down to IMAPI CD Burning and
ensure that it is set to
Automatic and Started.

 

[Alex Nichol]

The recording tab is missing on the properties of my CD-RW drive. How do I
get this tab back? I do have DirectCD installed on my PC.

If you have Direct CD installed, it and the inbuilt burning will fight,
so the inbuilt burning gets turned off and you should leave it that way
(that tab only affects the inbuilt, nit third party packages)

 

[Kelly]

In addition, do some reading here and good luck!

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...ssing&meta=group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.*

 

[Kelly]

Hi Alex,

You are more abreast to these issues than I am, so will post this. What he
did respond via email was that on another system in the house that has
Direct CD installed, it does show the Recording Tab on the CD-RW properties,
but not this one.

 

[Alex Nichol]

You are more abreast to these issues than I am, so will post this. What he
did respond via email was that on another system in the house that has
Direct CD installed, it does show the Recording Tab on the CD-RW properties,
but not this one.

I don't know quite at what point these installs started to disable the
recording page altogether, rather than merely 'unchecking' the Enable,
but it is probably a later version of Direct CD. That used not to do
it, but I have not installed a recent one. DLA (the one I use - rarely)
does remove the tab on the drive where it is enabled (but not on ones
where it is not - it only works on one drive on the machine). This also
results in the drive concerned being 'seen' in My Computer or Device
Manager as a CD-Rom, not a writer, though DLA and the mastering packages
are quite happy with it.

The basic advice would still be that if you have one of these packet
writing packages installed you should *not* attempt to have the inbuilt
pseudo drag and drop recording too. They will fight over what a drag to
the drive actually means

 

[dev]

/Alex Nichol/ said:

Kelly wrote:




I don't know quite at what point these installs started to disable the
recording page altogether, rather than merely 'unchecking' the Enable,
but it is probably a later version of Direct CD. That used not to do
it, but I have not installed a recent one. DLA (the one I use - rarely)
does remove the tab on the drive where it is enabled (but not on ones
where it is not - it only works on one drive on the machine). This also
results in the drive concerned being 'seen' in My Computer or Device
Manager as a CD-Rom, not a writer, though DLA and the mastering packages
are quite happy with it.

The basic advice would still be that if you have one of these packet
writing packages installed you should *not* attempt to have the inbuilt
pseudo drag and drop recording too. They will fight over what a drag to
the drive actually means

I might add that some packet writing programs, where the disk is
formatted, and acts like a giant (slow) floppy), provide their own
drag/drop window...while allowing XP's built-in tools to function
normally. NTI's File CD, is one such utility.
http://www.ntius.com/default.asp