burner not reading disks

I have a Memorex 510L DVD burner runing on XP Home, and it's now saying the
drive is "not accessibleincorrect function. I notice that it's isted as
DVD+-RAM in Device Manager but it's DVD-RW drive in My Computer. Acronis
and lNTI Backup also see is a DVD RAM.

Apparently some apps want it to use a DVD RAM disk. How do I get it back to
the way it's supposed to be? Thanks for help....

sgopus
Mon May 05 17:38:21 PDT 2008

check drive properties and ensure the recording function is enabled

"Windwatcher" wrote:

> I have a Memorex 510L DVD burner runing on XP Home, and it's now saying the
> drive is "not accessibleincorrect function. I notice that it's isted as
> DVD+-RAM in Device Manager but it's DVD-RW drive in My Computer. Acronis
> and lNTI Backup also see is a DVD RAM.
>
> Apparently some apps want it to use a DVD RAM disk. How do I get it back to
> the way it's supposed to be? Thanks for help....
>
>
>

M
Tue May 06 01:00:38 PDT 2008


"sgopus" <sgopus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> check drive properties and ensure the recording function is enabled
>

XP can't record DVD-RW discs natively. Setting that record function is only
applicable to XP's inbuilt ability to write CD-R and CD-RW discs.

To write DVD-RW discs requires the use of a third party disc burning
utility. XP can however write DVD-RAM natively (it just treats it like any
other removeable disc drive).


> "Windwatcher" wrote:
>
>> I have a Memorex 510L DVD burner runing on XP Home, and it's now saying
>> the
>> drive is "not accessibleincorrect function. I notice that it's isted
>> as
>> DVD+-RAM in Device Manager but it's DVD-RW drive in My Computer.
>> Acronis
>> and lNTI Backup also see is a DVD RAM.
>>
>> Apparently some apps want it to use a DVD RAM disk. How do I get it back
>> to
>> the way it's supposed to be? Thanks for help....
>>
>>
>>

Windwatcher
Tue May 06 12:47:44 PDT 2008

I use either NERO on NTI, so I am not recording from XP. It's those
programs that are rejecting the disks, but I have previously recorded on the
same brand of disks with the same progams. So I am really puzzled as to why
it's behaving this way now.
"M.I.5¾" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in message
news:48200c1c$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net...
>
> "sgopus" <sgopus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4FA271FA-BCB1-4ECB-A31D-E66369EA79D5@microsoft.com...
>> check drive properties and ensure the recording function is enabled
>>
>
> XP can't record DVD-RW discs natively. Setting that record function is
> only applicable to XP's inbuilt ability to write CD-R and CD-RW discs.
>
> To write DVD-RW discs requires the use of a third party disc burning
> utility. XP can however write DVD-RAM natively (it just treats it like
> any other removeable disc drive).
>
>
>> "Windwatcher" wrote:
>>
>>> I have a Memorex 510L DVD burner runing on XP Home, and it's now saying
>>> the
>>> drive is "not accessibleincorrect function. I notice that it's isted
>>> as
>>> DVD+-RAM in Device Manager but it's DVD-RW drive in My Computer.
>>> Acronis
>>> and lNTI Backup also see is a DVD RAM.
>>>
>>> Apparently some apps want it to use a DVD RAM disk. How do I get it
>>> back to
>>> the way it's supposed to be? Thanks for help....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>