WMP disapearing CD-Drive

[EW]

First off, I don't use any of the 'online' web features of Windows
Media Player 10.

I Burned two music CDs the other day and on trying to burn another
one, (different mp3 files that are not copy protected), Windows Media
Player could not find the DVD/CD-RW drive with "Press the F5 key to
refresh", but never recognizes that I have a CD drive. I rebooted and
it came back once, but disappeared and can't be found by Windows Media
Player anymore.

I can use another Burning program to Burn CDs, it finds my CD-drive
fine.

I'm also missing the Record Tab in the CD-RW Drive properties through
My Computer and Device Manager. I can't enable or disable cd burning
with this drive if I wanted to.
(the registry has the NoCDBurning setting to 0) to burn from this CD
drive.

I uninstalled Roxio 5.xx and Roxio 8 4 months ago, and WMP worked fine
up until recently. I downloaded the Roxio Fix (uninstall) and ran it.
It didn't fix the no Recording Tab in the CD drive properties.

I'm using Deep Burner as my Burning program for now, and it works
fine.

I tried to find out how to uninstall and reinstall WMP10 , but I can't
find that info at MS. I don't 'Need' WMP for burning cds, I just don't
like that it's broken.

Windows XP Home (SP1) ....... I'm cleaning off my hard drive and
backing up my personal files to install SP2.

Any other known fixes???

EW

 

[EW]

If anyone is interested, I found the fix myself.

Microsoft KnowledgeBase file:
Article ID : 316529

EW


| First off, I don't use any of the 'online' web features of Windows
| Media Player 10.
|
| I Burned two music CDs the other day and on trying to burn another
| one, (different mp3 files that are not copy protected), Windows
Media
| Player could not find the DVD/CD-RW drive with "Press the F5 key to
| refresh", but never recognizes that I have a CD drive. I rebooted
and
| it came back once, but disappeared and can't be found by Windows
Media
| Player anymore.
|
| I can use another Burning program to Burn CDs, it finds my CD-drive
| fine.
|
| I'm also missing the Record Tab in the CD-RW Drive properties
through
| My Computer and Device Manager. I can't enable or disable cd burning
| with this drive if I wanted to.
| (the registry has the NoCDBurning setting to 0) to burn from this CD
| drive.
|
| I uninstalled Roxio 5.xx and Roxio 8 4 months ago, and WMP worked
fine
| up until recently. I downloaded the Roxio Fix (uninstall) and ran
it.
| It didn't fix the no Recording Tab in the CD drive properties.
|
| I'm using Deep Burner as my Burning program for now, and it works
| fine.
|
| I tried to find out how to uninstall and reinstall WMP10 , but I
can't
| find that info at MS. I don't 'Need' WMP for burning cds, I just
don't
| like that it's broken.
|
| Windows XP Home (SP1) ....... I'm cleaning off my hard drive and
| backing up my personal files to install SP2.
|
| Any other known fixes???
|
| EW
|
|
|