Does Windows XP Home have its own CD/DVD writer software?

[Gerald Bramwell]

Hi,

Does windows have its own writer software for CDs and DVDs? I have had
to reinstall Windows to a new drive. Windows can read from the DVD drive
but it will not format a blank CD/DVD or erase files from a used CD/DVD.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Gerald

 

[Don Phillipson]

Does windows have its own writer software for CDs and DVDs? I have had
to reinstall Windows to a new drive. Windows can read from the DVD drive
but it will not format a blank CD/DVD or erase files from a used CD/DVD.

Windows can read standard CDs without any driver (as is
prerequisite to boot from a CD) but includes no CD (or DVD)
writing or formatting software. Your behavior is normal.

 

[glee]

Hi,

Does windows have its own writer software for CDs and DVDs? I have had
to reinstall Windows to a new drive. Windows can read from the DVD
drive but it will not format a blank CD/DVD or erase files from a used
CD/DVD.

Windows XP can natively write files to a CD, but not to a DVD. It has
no facility to format a CD or erase files from a disc, only to write,
and only to CD.

You must have a drive that is a writer, and you must enable recording on
the drive:
Click Start> My Computer, right-click the CD-RW drive icon and click
Properties on the pop-up menu, then click the Recording tab.
Click to put a check on the box for "Enable CD recording on this drive"
and click OK.

If you have more than one CD/DVD-RW drive in your system, you can only
enable one of them this way.