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General Computer Support / Re: DVD/CD will play in WMP. Not recognized as burning drive.

« on: May 25, 2013, 05:53:12 pm »

Can I "burn" this onto a flash drive and run it from the flash drive?

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General Computer Support / Re: DVD/CD will play in WMP. Not recognized as burning drive.

« on: May 25, 2013, 10:18:32 am »

Yes  it works in another laptop.  The drive reads and plays any prerecorded CD or DVD.  I can rip media into W media player.  I can watch dual layer disk DVDs.  I can play and rip disks I previously made myself.  Everything works fine except it will not burn.  The laptop recognizes the drive as a standard CD-DVD read drive and says it is working correctly and the drivers are up to date.

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General Computer Support / Re: DVD/CD will play in WMP. Not recognized as burning drive.

« on: May 23, 2013, 09:38:56 am »

yes, I downloaded the other burning program and it did not work either.  Toshiba also tried 2 other non windows burning programs.  One "burned" but the disk was not readable by anything.

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General Computer Support / Re: DVD/CD will play in WMP. Not recognized as burning drive.

« on: May 18, 2013, 04:20:39 pm »

The drive is a brand new super drive - burns CD, DVD, +,- , dual layer.  WMP and computer recognize the drive as read only cd rom drive.  The drive works in another laptop fine.  My computer says drivers are up to date and drive is working properly.   I can play anything or rip into wmp.  When I try and burn in WMP I get the message "connect a burner and restart the player".  I cannot burn anything in WMP, Roxio, Real or Nero.  When I pull up the CD player properties box, the burning tab in the properties box is missing.     Microsoft tried to fix software.  After days, they refinded the $$ they charged.  Did not fix problem.       Toshiba also tried to fix problem.  They loaded XP lite on a flash drive and booted the computer from that drive.  The burner operated that time.  It burned something onto a blank disk but no device could read what was burned.  I saw the burn track on the CD and the computer said it had used space.  Toshiba said it was not a hardware problem.  Also when I put a blank disk in the burner it says that windows cannot read the disk.  All types of disks.  Even CD data trying to burn a Word document.  Deleted drive control panel.  Removed and reinstalled drive.  Win 7 reinstalled drive again as read only.

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General Computer Support / DVD/CD will play in WMP. Not recognized as burning drive.

« on: May 11, 2013, 11:04:07 pm »

Win 7 Pro.  DVD/CD RW worked fine in WMP 11 for over 2 years.  Few weeks ago automatic update somehow got turned on by mistake.  Loaded a ton of stuff from Microsoft.  The next day I could no longer burn CD's in any program.  Properties box recognizes standard drive but burning tab is gone.  Line missing from registry key as well.  Microsoft worked remotely for too long, could not fix, gave me refund.  Toshiba also trying to fix.  No luck so far.  Any ideas?  HW or SW issue?  Thanks.