CDRW / DVD RW not recognized

[Glenn]

The 2 drives do not show up as recordable drives in XP.
They show up as the correct drive names in Device
manager, but not as recordable. Edited the registry per
MS instructions (value set to 2), but no luck
At my wits end.

[Yves Leclerc]

Search this news group and look for info on upper/lower filters for the
drives.

Yves


"Glenn" > wrote in message
...
> The 2 drives do not show up as recordable drives in XP.
> They show up as the correct drive names in Device
> manager, but not as recordable. Edited the registry per
> MS instructions (value set to 2), but no luck
> At my wits end.

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello Glenn

Try both links below

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314060
1.A Goto http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.php#problems

Alvin




Glenn wrote:

> The 2 drives do not show up as recordable drives in XP.
> They show up as the correct drive names in Device
> manager, but not as recordable. Edited the registry per
> MS instructions (value set to 2), but no luck
> At my wits end.