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by marsupial1

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I have recently installed a sony 16x/10x/40 cd/rw drive in a 233mzh computer Iam using nero burn which seems to work quite well
the problem is that the drive will recognise cd's and play them but when it comes to burning the software tries to burnit onto the first drive that is a slave to the hard drive and not to the burner can anyone help in fixing this problem
best regards
stephen

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by thechas

This is a new one, I have never seen CD writer software attempt to use a CD drive to burn. It sounds like your CD drive is miss-identified.

First of all, I have a concern that your system may not meet the minimum requirements for the Sony CD-RW drive. Without the model number, it is dificult to check this out at Sony's site.
The last 16X that I installed required a minimum of a 350MHz processor.

If it is indeed suppossed to work with a 233, then I would start by updating the drivers for the motherboard / chipset.
Then, remove the CD-Rom drive in device manager, and let Windows re-install the reference driver.

If nero still thinks that your CD drive is an RW drive, check for software updates from nero. They may have an error in the supported devices list.
It also may be possible to change the default device in the settings / preferences / options section of the nero software.

by marsupial1

thank you for your answer sorry i did not give model number but yes it is surprising at least will check sony site and see if model is compatable with motherboard
thanks stephen

by stoobydo

I just rearranged the cables after I had this:
Need to make a copy of a CD, cd s/w opens my non-burner and tells me to place a blank in the tray. Next it opens burner and asks for the source. I could've left everything alone, but it annoyed the crap out of me. The Chas brought up a good point. In your Device Mgr under the IDE stuff, you should see the work Dual. Not at home, so I can't actually get you a word 4 word. You'll see what I am talking about though. Hope this helps!

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