Windows CD Burning function doesn't see CDR

[Gordon]

I have an LG DVD RW drive installed as a secondary optical drive - the
built-in Windows CD Burning function recognises that the drive is RW but
doesn't recognise that there is a CDR in it, (Which there is). CDBurner XP
Pro sees the disk OK. Is there a solution to this?

 

[M.I.5¾]

I have an LG DVD RW drive installed as a secondary optical drive - the
built-in Windows CD Burning function recognises that the drive is RW but
doesn't recognise that there is a CDR in it, (Which there is). CDBurner XP
Pro sees the disk OK. Is there a solution to this?

Have you actually checked that recording is enabled for that drive (right
click the drive select 'Properties' and select the recording tab - check the
enable box is checked). XP only allows one drive to be enabled for
recording at any one time.

 

[Gordon]

Have you actually checked that recording is enabled for that drive (right
click the drive select 'Properties' and select the recording tab - check
the enable box is checked). XP only allows one drive to be enabled for
recording at any one time.

I'll check - not on that machine at the moment. However, the primary optical
drive is just a bog-standard CDROM drive....

 

[Tecknomage]

I have an LG DVD RW drive installed as a secondary optical drive - the
built-in Windows CD Burning function recognises that the drive is RW but
doesn't recognise that there is a CDR in it, (Which there is). CDBurner XP
Pro sees the disk OK. Is there a solution to this?

Every CD or DVD recorder I've bought came with software that is much,
much better than the Windows method to write to CD/DVD. All the
drives I have came with NERO, but I don't like it so I use another
utility.

Didn't your drive come with software?

 

[Gordon]

Every CD or DVD recorder I've bought came with software that is much,
much better than the Windows method to write to CD/DVD. All the
drives I have came with NERO, but I don't like it so I use another
utility.

Didn't your drive come with software?

Yes it did, and it all works properly, but in this case I was just wanting
to burn a folder of drivers for my computer's hardware to a CD to use in
conjunction with my XP CD if and when I need to re-install - so didn't think
it necessary to fire up Nero or CDBurnerXP Pro....

 

[M.I.5¾]

I'll check - not on that machine at the moment. However, the primary
optical drive is just a bog-standard CDROM drive....

It is still possible that recording has become deselected. Windows randomly
does this to keep newsgroups such as this alive.

 

[M.I.5¾]

Every CD or DVD recorder I've bought came with software that is much,
much better than the Windows method to write to CD/DVD. All the
drives I have came with NERO, but I don't like it so I use another
utility.

Didn't your drive come with software?

The windows own utility also writes a technically invalid disk format. It
only supports multi-session disks in Mode 1 format. The Orange Book
intended multi-session to be written only in Mode 2 format. But an
ambiguity didn't make that as clear as intended. As a result there are
numerous CD drives around that half implemented the spec and consequently
they won't read anything other than the first session of a Mode 1 CD. Every
other CD writing utility that I am aware of always writes in Mode 2, but
some examples do permit Mode 1, but only if the disk is closed. Some very
early examples were more flexible and permitted multi-session Mode 1.

 

[Gordon]

It is still possible that recording has become deselected. Windows
randomly does this to keep newsgroups such as this alive.

ROTFLMAO!