Guest Gordon Posted July 31, 2007 Posted July 31, 2007 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?
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: Windows CD Burning function doesn't see CDR "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message news:OZuLjy50HHA.4184@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >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.
Guest Gordon Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: Windows CD Burning function doesn't see CDR "M.I.5¾" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in message news:46b047ab$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net... > > "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message > news:OZuLjy50HHA.4184@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>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. > > > I'll check - not on that machine at the moment. However, the primary optical drive is just a bog-standard CDROM drive....
Guest Tecknomage Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: Windows CD Burning function doesn't see CDR On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:00:13 +0100, "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > 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? -- ======== Tecknomage ======== Computer Systems Specialist San Diego, CA
Guest Gordon Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: Windows CD Burning function doesn't see CDR "Tecknomage" <tecknode@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:fjs0b3led2bnro2hlnui528860kou9j6a7@4ax.com... > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:00:13 +0100, "Gordon" > <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > >> 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? > > -- > ======== Tecknomage ======== > Computer Systems Specialist > San Diego, CA > 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....
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: Windows CD Burning function doesn't see CDR "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message news:OxH2V7C1HHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > "M.I.5¾" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in message > news:46b047ab$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net... >> >> "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message >> news:OZuLjy50HHA.4184@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>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. >> >> >> > > > 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.
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: Windows CD Burning function doesn't see CDR "Tecknomage" <tecknode@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:fjs0b3led2bnro2hlnui528860kou9j6a7@4ax.com... > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:00:13 +0100, "Gordon" > <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > >> 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? > 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.
Guest Gordon Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: Windows CD Burning function doesn't see CDR "M.I.5¾" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in message news:46b08adc$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net... > > "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message > news:OxH2V7C1HHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> "M.I.5¾" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:46b047ab$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net... >>> >>> "Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in message >>> news:OZuLjy50HHA.4184@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>>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. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> 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. > > > ROTFLMAO!
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