dvd r/rw drive is messed up after playing shrek 2

ecaandrew

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hi i am running a windows xp pro machine with a samsung SH-W08A DVD R/RW drive, i have the newest firmware update and it came with no drivers. i recently put the new shrek 2 dvd into my computer and watched it, after the movie i got back to work and needed to burn a weeding onto dvd. after watching the movie - when you insert a blank dvd rw into the dvd rw drive the computer recognizes the drive as a cd-rom dirve and nothing else, i have uninstalled the drive itself and reinstalled it - still the same issue. and another thing i cant figure out is: i had alcohol 120% installed on my computer and it installed a virtual cd rom drive and i uninstalled alcohol thinking that it may be causing this issue, but now that virtual device wont go away - my computer says i have 3 cd drives and i only have 2. so:

when insert a blank dvd r into the DVD r/rw drive - computer sees the drive as a cd-rom drive and nothing more.

and

i cannot get rid of the drive H: (3rd cd drive) and my computer really only has 2 cd drives, and my computer tells me it has 3? wtf?

please get back to me asap
 

ecaandrew

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anyone? has anyone ever had alcohol installed? and might know why the cd drive that doesnt really exist still shows up on my computer?

or what makes my computer see the dvd drive correctly until a dvd -r is put in? then it recognizes it as a cd-rom drive