Vista won't recognize DVD-RW Rom correctly

[tomsen]

I have Windows Vista Business x64 installed on my system. It recognizes my
DVDRW Rom only as a CD-Rom but not as a RW-ROM. Because of that I can't burn
anything using windows vista. Anyone have any idea what the problem might
be? It also detects the DVDRW-ROM as SCSI but it's IDE! Wierd! It works fine
under WinXP Pro which is also installed on my PC (Dual boot).

Tomsen

 

[Guest]

Business edition doesn't have the DVD writer software included. You must have
Ultimate or Home Premium to write to dvd's.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pr...hoose.mspx?wt_svl=10033WPHa1&mg_id=10033WPHb1

 

[Lang Murphy]

I have Windows Vista Business x64 installed on my system. It recognizes my
DVDRW Rom only as a CD-Rom but not as a RW-ROM. Because of that I can't
burn anything using windows vista. Anyone have any idea what the problem
might be? It also detects the DVDRW-ROM as SCSI but it's IDE! Wierd! It
works fine under WinXP Pro which is also installed on my PC (Dual boot).

Tomsen

"It" is what? Device Manager? Have you looked in the BIOS settings to see if
everything looks copacetic in there?

Has it ever worked? Is this a new PC? If not, upgrade or clean install?

Lang

 

[tomsen]

Vista Business does support the burning of Cds and DVDs. What you mentioned
is the creation and authoring of custom video DVDs (editing and burning of
video and pictures).

@lang

Vista won't recognize the DVDROM. But I checked under XP and it recognizes
the DVDROM as SCSI also (the entry in the device manager is the same). Vista
is a clean install on a dual boot machine. XP is installed on one HDD and
Vista was installed on a new additional HDD. Nothing on my hardware changed
i simply installed Vista and it won't work with my DVDROM

Tom

 

[tomsen]

ok, you were correct mary, but the link you posted didn't help much with the
question at hand since it doesn't list the general burning capability. i
found out that vista business doesn't support burning by looking up a
registry entry (it was missing) which i found in the microsoft KB.

I installed the newest Nero burning rom and it works fine now.

Tomsen

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem. I have DVD and CD RW/ROM drives that the device
manager recognizes as SCSI devices and as ROM only. As a result neither Media
Center nor media player believe I have a drive capable of burning.
Non-microsoft programs like Imgburn and Nero recognize the drives as burners
and work with them but it is still annoying that the wrong drivers are
installed and that media center and player lack functionality.