DVD-rw Showing up as CDROM

[pax2179]

In my computer, it shows my NEC 1300A DVDrw drive as a cd rom drive..... I dont know how to change that, but it cant burn and isint working right. Anyone know?

 

[pax2179]

Ok, so it shows as a DVD burner when nothings in it, but when i put in a blank cd or dvd it says its a cd drive and when i double click on it it's unaccessable it says

 

[NesuD]

until you burn something to the disc there is nothing there to access thats why it is coming up as inaccessible. There is nothing detectable on the media, no partitions or formatting or filesystems so to the OS it is a complete mystery in that state. What burning software are you using with it?

A little more system information would be helpful. what OS, What burning software you are using ex. Nero, Roxio. Some specs on the pc would also be helpful like Motherboard cpu ram that type of thing. When you have a question it is best to list as many details about the system as you can.

 

[pax2179]

Im using Nero but it wont let me have the Burn function ever cause i dont think it knows theres a dvd in the burner, and dvdxcopy wont detect it either. Its a lan aparty nf2 mobo xp 3000 barton win xp prof

 

[Anubis08]

I like DVDXCopy, but can't get it in the states although it is my right to make copies of my own purchases. Anyways, you might need a driver update or a newer version of Nero, which version do you have?

 

[pax2179]

I have flashed the dvdrw with the newest FW and im running Nero 6.3.1.13

 

[VirtualLarry]

I know someone with an NEC ND1300A (well, I have one too), and they had some severe problems with DVDXCopy (I don't have that), it didn't properly recognize that drive, and wouldn't properly enable the "Burn-proof" feature, so it made coasters. From what I can see, that software doesn't look all that great, I recommend DVDDecrypter instead.

As for your Nero, when you select "Choose recorder", does the NEC show up in the list? I'm still using Nero 5.5.x.x, but it shows up fine for me, along with my Lite-On 52x CD-RW drive.

The drive itself shows up as a "compact disc" drive, under Windows' Explorer.exe in W2K, that's normal and fine. If you are trying to use it to drag-and-drop files to burn with it in Windows XP, then you need to make sure that the IMAPI service is started and running, and that you have enabled that drive for burning. You also need to have blank disc in the drive. You might also need some updates from Roxio, they provided the built-in CD-burning support in Windows XP. In fact, I don't know if that supports burning DVDs at all, it might only support CDs. I don't use that feature regardless, I just open Nero or Alcohol 120 when I want to burn something.

 

[wfbberzerker]

if you put in a dvd, does the drive show up as a dvd drive?

 

[pax2179]

when i put in a REAL dvd it shows up as the dvd and plays it fine, but when i put in any blank media, it shows the drive as being a CD drive with the kinda of blank media specified