They show up just fine and in working order in the device manager. I put the
new firmware updates yesterday in hopes that it would work. The Sony is
hooked up as the Master on the secondary IDE channel (there's nothing on
after that as slave) and the external is hooked up through a firewire port on
the back of the computer.

Nero recognizes the drives fine, but nothing that is windows software does
as DVD Drives.

Is there something in the registry that can reset the way they are looked at
by windows? Is there a .sys file some where that can be deleted or modified?

It's funny that they don't work correctly after a destructive re-install of
XP Media Center 2005. So I'm not sure how that would be possible... or what
else to try.

Thanks!

"R. McCarty" wrote:

> In Device Manager, DVD/CD-Rom Drives how are the two devices
> shown ? Do they appear with their correct Vendor/model description.
> Are these drives PATA and sharing a M/S connection on the same
> IDE channel ? Some combination of drives causes interaction issues.
> Do both drives have the latest firmware loaded ?
>
> "Wisconsin Help?" <Wisconsin Help?@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:05C77BDE-37A2-4BA4-BE6D-78009DE16DF2@microsoft.com...
> > Hey Gang,
> >
> > Long time reader, first time poster....
> >
> > I normally would consider myself relatively computer saavy, however, I've
> > got a problem that I haven't been able to fix... even after a complete and
> > destructive WinXp Re-install.
> >
> > I have 2 DVD Burners, one an external DVD burner and the other is a brand
> > new Sony DRU-190A that are both showing up as CD Drives in Windows
> > Explorer.
> > However, with Nero, they show up as DVD Burners/Drives.
> >
> > I am running Win Xp Media Center 2005 with a new, clean install. I need
> > to
> > fix this because I use the Media Center software to record shows during
> > the
> > week for work and from what I've been able to read, only Media Center can
> > burn the recorded shows off of media center.
> >
> > Is there some way of getting these 2 drives to recognize correctly? I've
> > already uninstalled the drives from the Device Manager and they still
> > didn't
> > come back correctly.
> >
> > Thanks all...
>
>
>