CD Reads, but will not write

  • Thread starter Timothy Buchanan
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Timothy Buchanan

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?
 
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Thorsten Matzner

Timothy Buchanan said:
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?
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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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