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WinXP no longer recognizes drive as "recordable"...

Ichinisan

Ichinisan

Lifer
Normally, WinXP Pro allows me to drag-and-drop files to my recordable drive. Now it sees my drive as a DVD-ROM drive instead of a DVD+RW / CD-RW. Other recording applications (Nero) still work fine. How do I make Windows redetect my drive? I have had this problem before with normal CD-RW drives.

Removing/reinstalling hardware does not work. A full format and reinstall is the only way I have ever gotten around the problem.
 
I have had the same problem before, and like you i never found a solution. So bump, for anyone that can help us out.
 
the only time I had this happen was on a friend's new laptop. I re-installed the Roxio software which came with her stuff and that fixed it. I figured since WinXP actually uses the Roxio engine for burning maybe it got damaged.

Of course I don't know if the Roxio CD comes with XP normally or if it was just part of her laptop stuff.

 
my CDRW turned into a CDROM in the Explorer windows but worked fine...I have no idea why, I rearranged my drives and it did it and switching them back would not fix it....nor would deleting the drives and allowing them to reinstall.

I did a reinstall of XP Pro and it fixed it.

If you aren't having problems I think it can be ignored...Nero, CD Clone, etc had no problems burning to my incorrectly labelled drive.
 
It is giving me trouble. I can't drag files onto the drive, whether-or-not blank media is inserted. I believe my problem was also caused by changing drive-letter associations. Switching them back does not seem to work either...
 
check the IMAPI CD Burning Service is active. There was also so kind of report that Nero and CD Clone installed in a certain way/set of versions would make the CD drives disappear, so perhaps something similar has happened.
 
Right-click on the drive, go to the Recording tab, and make sure that Enable CD Recording On This Drive is enabled.
Like others have said, check to see if the IMAPI service is running (right-click on My Computer, Manage, Services, scroll down to it and see if it's on Automatic, Running, or Disabled.) If it's Disabled, right-click, Properties, Startup Type, set it to Automatic. Mine's set to Manual because I don't use it.

Dopefiend
 
alkemyst:
I think CloneCD may be responsible. I re-enabled IMAPI and now Nero works, but Windows still does not let me use Explorer's drag-and-drop CD-Recording.
 
Sorry I don't have the links handy, but search for CDClone and Nero together...there was a known issue with IMAPI and CD drives malfunctioning and disappearing...latest versions have this solved, however it may not bring back the drive with out more work involved (hopefully short of a full reinstall).

 
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