Burner detected as player
I noticed a while ago that my CD/DVD burner isn't recognised by my burning programmes, and everywhere on my PC (on Win XP) it is referred to as a CD/DVD player, even though it is detected correctly (brand and product type).
I've successfully used it in the past to burn CDs, and now my hard drives would feel better with a little cleaning. I've combed quite a few computer nerd sites but their language is beyond my reach and they don't seem to provide the right answer.
Anyone could assist me ? Thanks in advance.
Do you got Nero or some other type of DVD burning software?
Easy CD Creator was installed, but I essentially used Sonic. Only after I moved to Germany did I install Nero, and now none of the burning software detects my burner.
I'm no tech expert at all, mind you. But I've had that happen to me before where all of a sudden it will only read disks and not write to em. I just reinstalled everything and it seemed to take care of it. It's happened maybe twice in the 5 years I've had a computer.
I dunno, that's all I got.
Okay, thanks. I think I'll remove it all and reinstall it.
I don't know what to do if they're physically not reading the drive, but I know when I put in a blank DVD, for some reason the 'My Computer' explorer thing starts reading the drive as a 'CD-ROM'. When I open up the DVD burning software, it reads it incorrectly as well, but when I tell it to burn it comes out fine.
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