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.
