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June 3rd, 2008 12:00

No that's not what I meant. I DID NOT put in any disc and it just shows up as CD Driver, for both of them (the physical and the virtural DVD Drivers). It has never happened before.

 

Here is a snapshot:

I have NO disc. The one on the right is the real dvd rw, left is daemon tool virtual driver.

 

 

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June 3rd, 2008 12:00

If you are looking at the drive in Windows (for example: My Computer)
it will show as a DVD-RW Drive.  If you insrt a DVD disc it will change
to CD Drive.  This is normal because Windows XP has no DVD recognition
capabilities.  You need third-party software for DVDs.  The built-in
writing for XP is for CDs only.  DVDs began with Vista.

10 Posts

June 3rd, 2008 13:00

I've just uninstall my burning software (nero) and daemon tool and ultraiso but it's still not working!  I've also deleted the DVD-RW driver from device manager and reinstall it again, and it's not working either.


something wrong with registry???

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June 3rd, 2008 13:00

Hi, Supercatty:

If Skybird doesn't mind my chiming in....

Only rarely have I seen Daemon Tools peacefully coexisting with burning software. My suggestion would be to uninstall it completely. You might also need to uninstall and reinstall your burning software.

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June 3rd, 2008 14:00

Have you reinstalled NERO?  Do so if not.

10 Posts

June 3rd, 2008 14:00

I just checked, it is there, but still not working :smileysurprised:

 

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June 3rd, 2008 14:00

In My Computer, right-click the drive and select Properties.
Select the Recording tab.  Make sure the box is checked for
Enable CD recording on this drive.

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June 3rd, 2008 15:00

Yes I did. And I did not install daemon tool.

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June 3rd, 2008 15:00

See if this Microsoft Article is helpful ........


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316529/en-us

10 Posts

June 5th, 2008 00:00

my machine went blue screen today and won't boot...so I reinstall the system. It's all fine now. I still don't know what happened before but don't care now. Thanks for all the help guys.

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June 5th, 2008 11:00

The mystery of computers.  Glad you got it.  We will
be here if you need us.  Best regards.

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June 6th, 2008 03:00

OK same thing happened again and I figured out the solution myself. It was a group policy script provided online (it suppose to help protect computer like a HIPS software, and without using extra resources because it's a part of windows xp).

 

The execuation script is this:

Path=%windir%\system32\GroupPolicy\Machine
SavePath
Setup=gp.bat
Silent=1
Overwrite=1

 

In the "gp.bat" file, the script is this:

@echo off
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Safer\CodeIdentifiers" /v Levels /t REG_DWORD /d "0x04131000" /f
net stop ShellHWDetection>nul
sc config ShellHWDetection start= disabled>nul
gpupdate /force

 

it turned the "ShellHWDetection" to disable, which is what basically detecting hardware's "extended" function like difference between a dvd-rw and a regular cd driver so...

 

anyway I just opened cmd and changed "ShellHWDetection start= disabled" to "ShellHWDetection start= auto" and restart the service and everything is fine now.:smileyhappy:

Message Edited by SuperCatty on 06-06-2008 12:11 AM
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