Windows media player 10 will play and rip/no burner detected

[RLBRADLEY]

ok here is the problem.


HP ZE 4420us laptop with a Teac DW 224e CD-RW/DVD optical drive.
Running windows XP home edition with all the latest updates patchs etc
from microsoft. Both the laptop and and drive are microsoft approved
devices for XP.


At first operating system was not able to access CD drive at all. It
showed up in Devices and had latest drivers installed, but displayed
yellow exclamation mark. I followed the advice in microsoft knowledge
base and removed the upper and lower filters in the registry, restarted
computer, device found installed, yellow exclamation mark now gone. I
now could access the drive, cd's dvd's play fine, can read and record
cd-r's using Music Jukebox 9.0 basic and the same with Roxio easy cd
creator 5 basic. Windows media player 10 will play and rip cd's to
drive but I can not use it to record cd's, it states no burner/recorder
detected.


I then followed microsoft knowledge base instructions. In Device
properties it did not show a recording tab. Edited registry type device
to type 2 device (cd-rw), recording tab now appears under device
properties, enabled recording for device (checked box). Rebooted PC,
Media player 10 still does not show or detect a burner. Reinstalled
media player 10, removed and reinstalled device all to no effect. Is
there any recourse other then blowing the data off this drive and a
fresh reinstall of XP. and will that fix it or will I find myself back
in same position. I know I can just use Roxio or Nero but it bugs me
when stuff does not work as it should.

 

[Guest]

Open WMP>Options>Devices, if your RW isn't shown, click Add.
Never had to add mine; you may have to check MP Help file for further
instruction.