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Windows XP won't remember "enable CD recording" setting.

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by louisberry

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I'm using Windows XP SP2 and it has suddenly stopped being able to record to DVD -R or -RW's on all three of my DVD burners

When I look at each drive's properties in My Computer, there IS a "Recording" tab, but the "Enable CD recording" isn't checked. I check it, but when I move to the next drive and enable cd recording, it unchecks the previous drive. When I try to record to the drive I just enabled, I get an error message that Windows has encountered problems and offers the chance to retry or cancel. Retry does nothing, just re-offers the two options.

When I insert a blank DVD into a drive, it displays that the drive is now a CD drive, but indicates a DVD is inserted.

I have removed all dvd burning software from my computer, as I remember that Sonic's RecordNow caused similar problems on a system I had a few years ago. Same problem exists...no change

I have made sure that the IMAPI CD burning service is set to Automatic in the Computer Managment screen, but it doesn't show that it has started, just offers the option to start it. Starting it doesn't change anything.

I have deleted all drive from the device driver screens and allowed Windows to re-discover them....no change.

I have checked for all firmware updates and applied all that were available...no change.

It will play all recorded dvd's just find

Any help would be appreciated.

Louis Berry

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by older mycroft

How many hard drives just out of interest?

Assuming you have added at least one if not two of them, are they still all set as Master? That might explain the problem.

by louisberry

Yep....three. Two came with the system (one is a Lightscribe burner) and an external USB Lightscribe burner that I had before I purchased my current system.

Two internal HD's (500 gb each) and two external Buffalo Linkstation Drives (320 gb each) and I'm in the market for two more 500 gb drives. They are used primarily for backups (one of the internal drives is full and one of the Buffalo's is full, backing up some critical files from the full HD)

Eventually, I'll get a 2.5tb RAID 10 storage solution that should fix me up for some time to come....:)

The internal burners came with my system and were being recognized just fine until recently, which prompted my post here, after I had gone through all the usual steps that I listed previously.

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