XP Home - dvd drive letter oddity

[Randy S]

Something I never noticed before and now I'm wondering if it's normal.
On my system (XP Home sp1) I have two drives... a standard dvd and a
sony dvd+-rw drive. If there is nothing at all in the standard dvd drive
and I click it in "my computer" it says "please insert a disk into
drive." If I do the same to the sony dvd+-rw drive a window actually
opens that I can drag items into. I have no idea how or why it does
this. Is this normal?

I have another system with xp home sp1 that has a standard dvd drive and
a cdrw drive and in double clicking those drive letters both drives say
to "insert a disk"... no window opens on the cdrw drive. This
contradiction seems odd to me. Does this only happen with dvdrw drives
or have I installed something that I don't know about? I checked for
viruses. If anyone has an answer I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Randy

 

[Olguy]

Explains here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;Q279157

 

[Randy S]

Thanks,

It appears my other machine with the cdrw is the odd one. There is no
"recording tab" on it either (under properties). Prbably a roxio direct
cd compatibility problem or simply it wont recognize my philips cdrw800
properly. Thanks.

Randy
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[Please reply to newsgroup.]

Something I never noticed before and now I'm wondering if it's normal.
On my system (XP Home sp1) I have two drives... a standard dvd and a
sony dvd+-rw drive. If there is nothing at all in the standard dvd drive
and I click it in "my computer" it says "please insert a disk into
drive." If I do the same to the sony dvd+-rw drive a window actually
opens that I can drag items into. I have no idea how or why it does
this. Is this normal?

I have another system with xp home sp1 that has a standard dvd drive and
a cdrw drive and in double clicking those drive letters both drives say
to "insert a disk"... no window opens on the cdrw drive. This
contradiction seems odd to me. Does this only happen with dvdrw drives
or have I installed something that I don't know about? I checked for
viruses. If anyone has an answer I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Randy

Yeah, that's normal. It would say "Insert a disk" if Windows didn't
know that it was a write drive.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

The DVD+-W drive uses a special folder, on drive C;, as part of the XP CD
creation system. This is normal since you can send the file to create a CD.
By the way only can create CDs with the XP system. Once you are ready to
create the CD, you then click on the "record" system.

On CD/DVD-rom drives, XP need to read the CD and if there is none in the
unit, it give the error.


Y.