Before I did the reinstall of Win XP Media Center 2005, Media Center has a
CD/DVD burning option and it would recognize the DVD burner and do the
burning through the Media Center Program itself.

I'm not sure what the media center file extension is... I'll have to check
once I get back home... but I know that Nero doesn't burn the files as
something readable by any DVD player... tried that in the past because I
wasn't happy with how SLOW Media Center was when burning a DVD through it.

"Xandros" wrote:

> Are you trying to burn to DVD media? If so you will need third party burning
> software as no versions of Windows, prior to Vista, can burn natively to DVD
> media. What file format does MCE save the files in? I don't use it but I'd
> suspect WMV. If so you should be able to use Nero or Nero Vision to burn WMV
> files to DVD.
>
> --
>
> Xandros
>
>
> "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...
>
>
>