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dvd-rw drive being detected as cdrom, and cant burn anything

Started by fernsy , May 19 2006 06:21 AM

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fernsy
Posted 19 May 2006 - 06:21 AM

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hi im having a problem with my dvd-rw which is a philips lightscribe an its just detecting it as a standard drive and not a dvd-rw for some reason, could it be the bios needs updating, im really not sure any help would be appreciated.

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austin_o
Posted 19 May 2006 - 06:29 AM

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Here is a possible fix from M$: http://support.micro...b;EN-US;Q316529 drive not recordable
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fernsy
Posted 19 May 2006 - 06:50 AM

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your a legend lol, thanks very much works fine now
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Posted 19 May 2006 - 07:00 AM

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Glad that did the trick. Happy burning!
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