CD/DVD drivers

beatles4 · 12-11-2007, 01:56 PM

Can someone please let me know how I can tell if my PC has an internal DVD writer. The devise manager on the system control panel indicates there is a DVD/CD-ROM Drive. However, when I insert a DVD-RW, the PC does not recognise this and specifically requests a CD-R or CD-RW. How can I confirm one way or the other is I am able to copy files onto a DVD-RW or DVD-R?

**Done_Fishin** · 12-11-2007, 02:51 PM

you'd need to add a DVD writer software package .. XP to my knowledge DOES NOT support writing to DVD's .. so you'd have to grab a free software package if any are available or install NERO / ROXIO software.
If you bought the PC with the drive installed check to see whether they gave you a NERO CD for installation or have already installed NERO or ROXIO .. most drives used to come with NERO for single drive use

there is a possibility that the drive has DVD-RW on it .. which doesn't mean that it can write DVD's just that it is able to read rewritable DVD's ..if however you put a blank unwritten CD in the drive you will be able to send files to be written to the CD writer which might be a god indicator that the drive is a writer. The next step though would be getting hold of software to try to write a DVD.

Try checking out the make & model of your drive from the hardware manager in the control panel / system . then do a search for your details on the web using google or yahoo.
Someone will have a page somewhere with the characteristics of the drive which will help you too.

beatles4 · 12-12-2007, 04:05 AM

thanks for the solid advice! Will check them out!

muzammal786 · 12-13-2007, 11:15 PM

Thanks for posting useful driver information.

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12-11-2007, 01:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
beatles4 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 7 OS: xp	CD/DVD drivers Can someone please let me know how I can tell if my PC has an internal DVD writer. The devise manager on the system control panel indicates there is a DVD/CD-ROM Drive. However, when I insert a DVD-RW, the PC does not recognise this and specifically requests a CD-R or CD-RW. How can I confirm one way or the other is I am able to copy files onto a DVD-RW or DVD-R?

12-11-2007, 02:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
Done_Fishin Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brit living in Greece Posts: 7,416 OS: WinME, WinXP Pro SP3, Win7 Beta, Ubuntu 9.04 & Netbook Remix & CD2USB, Mepis 6.5, Fedora 10 My System	Re: CD/DVD drivers you'd need to add a DVD writer software package .. XP to my knowledge DOES NOT support writing to DVD's .. so you'd have to grab a free software package if any are available or install NERO / ROXIO software. If you bought the PC with the drive installed check to see whether they gave you a NERO CD for installation or have already installed NERO or ROXIO .. most drives used to come with NERO for single drive use there is a possibility that the drive has DVD-RW on it .. which doesn't mean that it can write DVD's just that it is able to read rewritable DVD's ..if however you put a blank unwritten CD in the drive you will be able to send files to be written to the CD writer which might be a god indicator that the drive is a writer. The next step though would be getting hold of software to try to write a DVD. Try checking out the make & model of your drive from the hardware manager in the control panel / system . then do a search for your details on the web using google or yahoo. Someone will have a page somewhere with the characteristics of the drive which will help you too. __________________ . . I'm not old!! I'm age impaired .. D_F I DON'T PLAY GAMES How to mark your thread as solved HDD DIAG UTILS TSF's Photographer's Corner Last edited by Done_Fishin; 12-11-2007 at 03:00 PM.

12-12-2007, 04:05 AM	#3 (permalink)
beatles4 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 7 OS: xp	Re: CD/DVD drivers thanks for the solid advice! Will check them out!

12-13-2007, 11:15 PM	#4 (permalink)
muzammal786 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2 OS: windows xp	Re: CD/DVD drivers Thanks for posting useful driver information. .............................................. Computer Networking Guide Last edited by muzammal786; 12-13-2007 at 11:16 PM.