DVD-RW shows up as CD Drive in Windows Explorer (WinXp)

Hey Gang,

Long time reader, first time poster....

I normally would consider myself relatively computer saavy, however, I've
got a problem that I haven't been able to fix... even after a complete and
destructive WinXp Re-install.

I have 2 DVD Burners, one an external DVD burner and the other is a brand
new Sony DRU-190A that are both showing up as CD Drives in Windows Explorer.
However, with Nero, they show up as DVD Burners/Drives.

I am running Win Xp Media Center 2005 with a new, clean install. I need to
fix this because I use the Media Center software to record shows during the
week for work and from what I've been able to read, only Media Center can
burn the recorded shows off of media center.

Is there some way of getting these 2 drives to recognize correctly? I've
already uninstalled the drives from the Device Manager and they still didn't
come back correctly.

Thanks all...

In Device Manager, DVD/CD-Rom Drives how are the two devices
shown ? Do they appear with their correct Vendor/model description.
Are these drives PATA and sharing a M/S connection on the same
IDE channel ? Some combination of drives causes interaction issues.
Do both drives have the latest firmware loaded ?

"Wisconsin Help?" <Wisconsin Help?@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:05C77BDE-37A2-4BA4-BE6D-78009DE16DF2@microsoft.com...
> Hey Gang,
>
> Long time reader, first time poster....
>
> I normally would consider myself relatively computer saavy, however, I've
> got a problem that I haven't been able to fix... even after a complete and
> destructive WinXp Re-install.
>
> I have 2 DVD Burners, one an external DVD burner and the other is a brand
> new Sony DRU-190A that are both showing up as CD Drives in Windows
> Explorer.
> However, with Nero, they show up as DVD Burners/Drives.
>
> I am running Win Xp Media Center 2005 with a new, clean install. I need
> to
> fix this because I use the Media Center software to record shows during
> the
> week for work and from what I've been able to read, only Media Center can
> burn the recorded shows off of media center.
>
> Is there some way of getting these 2 drives to recognize correctly? I've
> already uninstalled the drives from the Device Manager and they still
> didn't
> come back correctly.
>
> Thanks all...

They show up just fine and in working order in the device manager. I put the
new firmware updates yesterday in hopes that it would work. The Sony is
hooked up as the Master on the secondary IDE channel (there's nothing on
after that as slave) and the external is hooked up through a firewire port on
the back of the computer.

Nero recognizes the drives fine, but nothing that is windows software does
as DVD Drives.

Is there something in the registry that can reset the way they are looked at
by windows? Is there a .sys file some where that can be deleted or modified?

It's funny that they don't work correctly after a destructive re-install of
XP Media Center 2005. So I'm not sure how that would be possible... or what
else to try.

Thanks!

"R. McCarty" wrote:

> In Device Manager, DVD/CD-Rom Drives how are the two devices
> shown ? Do they appear with their correct Vendor/model description.
> Are these drives PATA and sharing a M/S connection on the same
> IDE channel ? Some combination of drives causes interaction issues.
> Do both drives have the latest firmware loaded ?
>
> "Wisconsin Help?" <Wisconsin Help?@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:05C77BDE-37A2-4BA4-BE6D-78009DE16DF2@microsoft.com...
> > Hey Gang,
> >
> > Long time reader, first time poster....
> >
> > I normally would consider myself relatively computer saavy, however, I've
> > got a problem that I haven't been able to fix... even after a complete and
> > destructive WinXp Re-install.
> >
> > I have 2 DVD Burners, one an external DVD burner and the other is a brand
> > new Sony DRU-190A that are both showing up as CD Drives in Windows
> > Explorer.
> > However, with Nero, they show up as DVD Burners/Drives.
> >
> > I am running Win Xp Media Center 2005 with a new, clean install. I need
> > to
> > fix this because I use the Media Center software to record shows during
> > the
> > week for work and from what I've been able to read, only Media Center can
> > burn the recorded shows off of media center.
> >
> > Is there some way of getting these 2 drives to recognize correctly? I've
> > already uninstalled the drives from the Device Manager and they still
> > didn't
> > come back correctly.
> >
> > Thanks all...
>
>
>

Check your registry for the presence of upper and lower filters per the article
cited below. Delete if found.

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...4060&x=12&y=13

"Wisconsin Help?" <Wisconsin Help?@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:05C77BDE-37A2-4BA4-BE6D-78009DE16DF2@microsoft.com...
> Hey Gang,
>
> Long time reader, first time poster....
>
> I normally would consider myself relatively computer saavy, however, I've
> got a problem that I haven't been able to fix... even after a complete and
> destructive WinXp Re-install.
>
> I have 2 DVD Burners, one an external DVD burner and the other is a brand
> new Sony DRU-190A that are both showing up as CD Drives in Windows Explorer.
> However, with Nero, they show up as DVD Burners/Drives.
>
> I am running Win Xp Media Center 2005 with a new, clean install. I need to
> fix this because I use the Media Center software to record shows during the
> week for work and from what I've been able to read, only Media Center can
> burn the recorded shows off of media center.
>
> Is there some way of getting these 2 drives to recognize correctly? I've
> already uninstalled the drives from the Device Manager and they still didn't
> come back correctly.
>
> Thanks all...

I found that article on a website and there was only lowerfilters.bak and I
deleted that with no avail.

"David Webb" wrote:

> Check your registry for the presence of upper and lower filters per the article
> cited below. Delete if found.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...4060&x=12&y=13
>
> "Wisconsin Help?" <Wisconsin Help?@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:05C77BDE-37A2-4BA4-BE6D-78009DE16DF2@microsoft.com...
> > Hey Gang,
> >
> > Long time reader, first time poster....
> >
> > I normally would consider myself relatively computer saavy, however, I've
> > got a problem that I haven't been able to fix... even after a complete and
> > destructive WinXp Re-install.
> >
> > I have 2 DVD Burners, one an external DVD burner and the other is a brand
> > new Sony DRU-190A that are both showing up as CD Drives in Windows Explorer.
> > However, with Nero, they show up as DVD Burners/Drives.
> >
> > I am running Win Xp Media Center 2005 with a new, clean install. I need to
> > fix this because I use the Media Center software to record shows during the
> > week for work and from what I've been able to read, only Media Center can
> > burn the recorded shows off of media center.
> >
> > Is there some way of getting these 2 drives to recognize correctly? I've
> > already uninstalled the drives from the Device Manager and they still didn't
> > come back correctly.
> >
> > Thanks all...
>
>
>

Are you trying to burn to DVD media? If so you will need third party burning
software as no versions of Windows, prior to Vista, can burn natively to DVD
media. What file format does MCE save the files in? I don't use it but I'd
suspect WMV. If so you should be able to use Nero or Nero Vision to burn WMV
files to DVD.

--

Xandros


"Wisconsin Help?" <Wisconsin Help?@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:05C77BDE-37A2-4BA4-BE6D-78009DE16DF2@microsoft.com...
> Hey Gang,
>
> Long time reader, first time poster....
>
> I normally would consider myself relatively computer saavy, however, I've
> got a problem that I haven't been able to fix... even after a complete and
> destructive WinXp Re-install.
>
> I have 2 DVD Burners, one an external DVD burner and the other is a brand
> new Sony DRU-190A that are both showing up as CD Drives in Windows
> Explorer.
> However, with Nero, they show up as DVD Burners/Drives.
>
> I am running Win Xp Media Center 2005 with a new, clean install. I need
> to
> fix this because I use the Media Center software to record shows during
> the
> week for work and from what I've been able to read, only Media Center can
> burn the recorded shows off of media center.
>
> Is there some way of getting these 2 drives to recognize correctly? I've
> already uninstalled the drives from the Device Manager and they still
> didn't
> come back correctly.
>
> Thanks all...

Before I did the reinstall of Win XP Media Center 2005, Media Center has a
CD/DVD burning option and it would recognize the DVD burner and do the
burning through the Media Center Program itself.

I'm not sure what the media center file extension is... I'll have to check
once I get back home... but I know that Nero doesn't burn the files as
something readable by any DVD player... tried that in the past because I
wasn't happy with how SLOW Media Center was when burning a DVD through it.

"Xandros" wrote:

> Are you trying to burn to DVD media? If so you will need third party burning
> software as no versions of Windows, prior to Vista, can burn natively to DVD
> media. What file format does MCE save the files in? I don't use it but I'd
> suspect WMV. If so you should be able to use Nero or Nero Vision to burn WMV
> files to DVD.
>
> --
>
> Xandros
>
>
> "Wisconsin Help?" <Wisconsin Help?@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:05C77BDE-37A2-4BA4-BE6D-78009DE16DF2@microsoft.com...
> > Hey Gang,
> >
> > Long time reader, first time poster....
> >
> > I normally would consider myself relatively computer saavy, however, I've
> > got a problem that I haven't been able to fix... even after a complete and
> > destructive WinXp Re-install.
> >
> > I have 2 DVD Burners, one an external DVD burner and the other is a brand
> > new Sony DRU-190A that are both showing up as CD Drives in Windows
> > Explorer.
> > However, with Nero, they show up as DVD Burners/Drives.
> >
> > I am running Win Xp Media Center 2005 with a new, clean install. I need
> > to
> > fix this because I use the Media Center software to record shows during
> > the
> > week for work and from what I've been able to read, only Media Center can
> > burn the recorded shows off of media center.
> >
> > Is there some way of getting these 2 drives to recognize correctly? I've
> > already uninstalled the drives from the Device Manager and they still
> > didn't
> > come back correctly.
> >
> > Thanks all...
>
>
>

"Wisconsin Help?" <Wisconsin Help?@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:05C77BDE-37A2-4BA4-BE6D-78009DE16DF2@microsoft.com...
> Hey Gang,
>
> Long time reader, first time poster....
>
> I normally would consider myself relatively computer saavy, however, I've
> got a problem that I haven't been able to fix... even after a complete and
> destructive WinXp Re-install.
>
> I have 2 DVD Burners, one an external DVD burner and the other is a brand
> new Sony DRU-190A that are both showing up as CD Drives in Windows
> Explorer.
> However, with Nero, they show up as DVD Burners/Drives.
>

This is a common problem with XP. It doesn't seem to make any difference as
to what you can do with the drives. My own PC has a super multi DVD burner
showing as a CD drive in My Computer for several months, but nevertheless I
can still read and write to DVD-RAM discs (something the XP supports
natively).

:
: This is a common problem with XP. It doesn't seem to make any difference
as
: to what you can do with the drives. My own PC has a super multi DVD
burner
: showing as a CD drive in My Computer for several months, but nevertheless
I
: can still read and write to DVD-RAM discs (something the XP supports
: natively).

This also occurred on my computer about a week ago, after 4 years. My two
burners used to show up as DVD-RAM, but now show as CD Drive. However,
everything works just fine, and all firmware is up to date, and device
manager lists them fine.

It bugs the crap out of me, but as long as it works, everything is fine.
When I upgraded to SP3, they still didn't change.

Ironically, if I reboot the PC, they show up as DVD-RAM, until I use them,
then they revert.

Go figure.

Tom
:
:

If I wasn't stuck with the Media Center thing doing lots of recordings from
cable tv, I could care less about the whole thing. But since I haven't been
able to burn Media Center files to a DVD that worked and played in a DVD
player, then it's kind of crappy.

I've been all over the microsoft sites and still haven't seen a fix for it.
Seems a bit ridiculous... especially since a lot of people have problems with
it.



"Tom [Pepper] Willett" wrote:

>
> :
> : This is a common problem with XP. It doesn't seem to make any difference
> as
> : to what you can do with the drives. My own PC has a super multi DVD
> burner
> : showing as a CD drive in My Computer for several months, but nevertheless
> I
> : can still read and write to DVD-RAM discs (something the XP supports
> : natively).
>
> This also occurred on my computer about a week ago, after 4 years. My two
> burners used to show up as DVD-RAM, but now show as CD Drive. However,
> everything works just fine, and all firmware is up to date, and device
> manager lists them fine.
>
> It bugs the crap out of me, but as long as it works, everything is fine.
> When I upgraded to SP3, they still didn't change.
>
> Ironically, if I reboot the PC, they show up as DVD-RAM, until I use them,
> then they revert.
>
> Go figure.
>
> Tom
> :
> :
>
>
>