If I wasn't stuck with the Media Center thing doing lots of recordings from
cable tv, I could care less about the whole thing. But since I haven't been
able to burn Media Center files to a DVD that worked and played in a DVD
player, then it's kind of crappy.

I've been all over the microsoft sites and still haven't seen a fix for it.
Seems a bit ridiculous... especially since a lot of people have problems with
it.



"Tom [Pepper] Willett" wrote:

>
> :
> : This is a common problem with XP. It doesn't seem to make any difference
> as
> : to what you can do with the drives. My own PC has a super multi DVD
> burner
> : showing as a CD drive in My Computer for several months, but nevertheless
> I
> : can still read and write to DVD-RAM discs (something the XP supports
> : natively).
>
> This also occurred on my computer about a week ago, after 4 years. My two
> burners used to show up as DVD-RAM, but now show as CD Drive. However,
> everything works just fine, and all firmware is up to date, and device
> manager lists them fine.
>
> It bugs the crap out of me, but as long as it works, everything is fine.
> When I upgraded to SP3, they still didn't change.
>
> Ironically, if I reboot the PC, they show up as DVD-RAM, until I use them,
> then they revert.
>
> Go figure.
>
> Tom
> :
> :
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