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Sony CDRW not recognized by software

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fcastle

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I have a Sony CRX220E1 CDRW drive. I had no problems with it when I first installed it into my system. I burned discs with Nero, used DLA, etc. I reformatted my hard drive which I do regularly to keep things fresh. Now, Nero will not recognize the drive. Explorer acknoweldged it is a CDRW drive and the drive shows in my BIOS and device manager. I loaded Sony's CD software, B's recorder Gold5, and it also does not recognize the drive. It gives me a message: no drive connected. I have uninstalled the drive in device manager and had it redected by windows. No luck. Any suggestions would be great.

The only change when I reformatted was that the windows drive letter got changed to "F:". Here are the letters:

A: floppy
D: DVD-ROM
E: Sony CDRW
F: windows partition on HD 0
G: programs partition on HD 0
H: data drive on HD 1

Should that matter?
 
Try disabling the "IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service" and see if that helps anything. (It's Windows built-in burning stuff that sometimes causes 3rd party programs to freak.)
 
When the OS sees the burner while the burning software has problem detecting it, the problem often relates to the burning software's inability to detect aspi.dll. But w/ Nero, you shouldn't have this problem because it has its own aspi.dll. If the suggest made by bozo1 doesn't work, try reinstalling Nero (w/ the latest version). Also, get the latest aspi drivers (can't remember where though. Just google for it).
 
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