That's the nature of the XP Beast!
When it is empty, it will show up as a DVD-RW Drive. Put in a blank DVD-ROM
and XP changes it to a CD-RW Drive. That's because XP cannot natively write
to a DVD. It takes Nero or some other third party software to write to
DVD's. It should work just fine with Nero.


"Wisconsin Help?" <Wisconsin Help?@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> 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...