bigredend Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 Hi all, I'm a total noob so your help would be greatly appreciated. I've just tried adding a DVD recorder to my Pc and I can't get it to work properly. When there is no disc in the drive it recognises it as a DVD-rw drive , but when I put a disc in it shows as a CD drive. :( Windows XP SP2Athlon XP 1800+60G HDD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 What disk are you putting in?If it's a CD going in there it will come up on the My Computer screen as a CD drive and identify the disk as a CD. If you put a DVD blank in it will come up as a CD drive but identify the disk as a DVD and the type (+ or -) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigredend Posted January 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 I'm putting a DVD disc in, I've even tried two different model dvd drives, one was LG the other Sony ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 - - and this is the message you get on My Computer? If it isn't, where are you seeing it?Do the drives work as they are supposed to? That is, will they write to the DVD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigredend Posted January 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 It is on " My Computer " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 When I look in "My Computer" I have two optical drives, one is a CDRW-drive, and the other a DVD ram-drive. They both show up as what they are but on inserting a blank CD disk or a blank DVD disk it will change to "CD drive" DVD does not show when using a blank although it may do once selected from Nero software.Inserting a Music or data CD into the drive will show as CD-drive, inserting a DVD movie will show as DVD-drive. This seems to be pretty much what your experiencing and my drives are LG.Both my drives work fine with no problems. Does your drive work as intended? If not will you please let us know if you have installed the drivers for the drive and which model of LG drive your using. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigredend Posted January 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 When I put a " pre recorded " DVD it it shows up as a DVD and Plays, but when I put a blank disc in it gives me the option "do you want to erase this cdrw", but it wont give me the option of formatting it, I've been told that the discs need formatting first. The two drives areLG GSA-4167BSony Dw-Q30A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 DVD-RW disks only need formatting if you are using packet writing on them - such as InCD. In other instances they are used in the same way as other optical disks with the (dubious) advantage of being able to erase them.Don't trust anything important or valuable on a DVDRW. My son says he wouldn't even trust one for a shopping list and I agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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