My laptop won't recognise my DVD

[Guest]

Hi,
When I tried to transfer a video from my dvd/cd software to the disc i hit
problems, when i put the DVD in the disc drive changes to a CD drive and when
i try to burn it i am asked what type of CD do i want to make, I obviously
don't want to make a CD i want to make a DVD!!!
I am running windows XP with SP2
I am not good with tech stuff so i would appreciate it if any answers are
very basic!

Gilly

 

[Graham Hughes]

Windows does not natively make dvds, so you need to use either dvd writing
software to make data dvds, or dvd authoring software to make video dvds.

 

[Guest]

I AM using dvd movie software, i think its called Magix.
The problem is when i don't have a disk in the drive it is showing in My
Computer as the DVD drive but when i put a blank DVD in the drive it changes
to a CD drive, i'm sorry if my description was not clear enough in the first
post!

 

[Graham Hughes]

This description is normal.
when i put a blank DVD in the drive it changes

to a CD drive