Unable to copy anything to DVD or Cd burner using windows?

[Guest]

I can no longer copy anything to my DVD and CDRW burners using windows. They
have always worked fine. I can copy things using nero. When I try to use
windows I get a message saying decive "D" or "E" is inaccessible. I right
clicked each drive to enable the recording feature but the tab that says
recording is no longer there for my D drive. When I put a blank cd in and
right click the drive and choose properties it is showing the disk as being
full or all blue but with 0 bytes. I tried unistalling both devices through
device manager and restarting windows but this didn't work. I also
reinstalled the driver for my DVD burner but still nothing.
The only thing I can figure is that I ran a program called ccleaner some
time ago and some how deleted some necessary files or registry enteries but
I'm not sure this is the problem.
My question is: can I fix this without having to reinstall windows xp?

 

[Phil Anthropist]

I can no longer copy anything to my DVD and CDRW burners using windows.
They
have always worked fine. I can copy things using nero. When I try to use
windows I get a message saying decive "D" or "E" is inaccessible. I right
clicked each drive to enable the recording feature but the tab that says
recording is no longer there for my D drive. When I put a blank cd in and
right click the drive and choose properties it is showing the disk as
being
full or all blue but with 0 bytes. I tried unistalling both devices
through
device manager and restarting windows but this didn't work. I also
reinstalled the driver for my DVD burner but still nothing.
The only thing I can figure is that I ran a program called ccleaner some
time ago and some how deleted some necessary files or registry enteries
but
I'm not sure this is the problem.
My question is: can I fix this without having to reinstall windows xp?

Windows XP can't burn DVDs, only CDs. You need to use Nero or another CD/DVD
burning application.
<http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/jones_02november25.mspx>

 

[Jim]

Windows XP can't burn DVDs, only CDs. You need to use Nero or another
CD/DVD burning application.
<http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/jones_02november25.mspx>

And when you install Nero, the installation process disables CD burning by
Windows. Nero is lots more powerful anyway...
Jim