CD-RW not recognized as a recordable device

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larryboy - 27 Apr 2005 23:49 GMT

i checked out the previous posts and looked through support article - 316529
"CD-R drive or CD-RW drive is not recognized as a recordable device". The
regedit fix is the issue for my question:

a) properties for this device does NOT have a recording tab
b) the registry does NOT have a sub-key '\Drives' as specified in the
article 316529.
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD
Burning\Drives)

any ideas for making XP recognize that this is a CD-RW?

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Taurarian - 28 Apr 2005 11:12 GMT

Go to Control Panel - Admin Tools – Services
or click Start, Run and type : services.msc

Make sure that IMAPI CD Burning is Started.
If not, double click it, set Startup type to Automatic, Apply.Exit and reboot.

Now in My Computer, right-click the drive, Properties, Recording Page and make sure
'Enable recording' is checked

Your CD-RW drive is not recognized as a rewritable drive in Windows XP Service Pack 2
or in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883523

>i checked out the previous posts and looked through support article - 316529
> "CD-R drive or CD-RW drive is not recognized as a recordable device". The
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> any ideas for making XP recognize that this is a CD-RW?

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