You may try tracking down an upgrade for the firmware for the drive.
There's some information (I'm not sure it is your exact model) here:
http://support.packardbell-europe.co...rdware&lang=1&
(through the "&"). From the looks of your information, it looks as though
you're running not running the full drivers, but generic drivers, and the
original need to be reinstalled off your recovery disks or updated from the
real manufacturer's web site. You may need to be in Safe Mode for the
process to make sure of a good install.
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Chris H.
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"tattingbird" <tattingbird@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry if this is a long post, I want to give as much detail as possible of
> the problem I am having.
>
> I have an Acer TravelMate C303XMi Tablet PC running Windows XP Pro. It
> came
> with a Pioneer DVD-RW drive installed. When I bought it last November,
> everything worked fine. I was even able to burn a DVD data disk to backup
> my
> files. But, ever since I used the recovery disks to get my system back to
> the
> original setup, I can no longer write to DVDs.
>
> My drive will play movie DVDs, read CDs, read previously burned DVD-RWs,
> and
> burn to CDs. What I can no longer do is write to a DVD disk of any type.
>
> From the following information, it seems to me like my recovery disks have
> the wrong drivers on them (Acer says these are the only drivers they
> have -
> no upgrades). Windows only sees blank DVDs as CDs. Please take a look at
> this
> info and let me know what you think. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
> I'm pretty frustrated at the moment.
>
>
> The following is a summary of what Windows shows when I put a DVD in the
> drive:
>
> When a blank DVD-RW disk is in the drive, this information appears when
> viewing "My Computer": The icon has "DVD-R" under it but the drive is
> listed as "CD Drive (E:)"
>
> When right-clicking on the DVD drive and clicking on "Properties", this is
> what is seen under the "General" tab: Type: CD Drive, File System: RAW,
> Used space: 0 bytes, Free space: 4.38 GB
>
>
> When checking the DVD drive properties in the Device Manager, this is the
> information seen:
>
> Under "General" tab
> Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K14RA Properties
> Device type: DVD/CD-ROM drives
> Manufacturer: (Standard CD-ROM drives)
> Location: Location 0 (0)
> Device Status: This device is working properly.
>
> Under "Driver" tab
> Driver Provider: Microsoft
> Driver Date: 7/1/2001
> Driver Version: 5.1.2535.0
> Digital Signer: Microsoft Windows Publisher
>
>