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!My computer has decided, all of a sudden, that my DVD-RW drive is a CD-ROM drive, and won't burn anything with it.
It's an NEC ND-3530A-RW drive, internal.
BULLLSHIT!!!
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!My computer has decided, all of a sudden, that my DVD-RW drive is a CD-ROM drive, and won't burn anything with it.
It's an NEC ND-3530A-RW drive, internal.
Big Dick McGee
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Are you sure it's not the DVD's you're buying?? I got a whole pack of bad Memorex DVD's, wouldn't burn for shit. I switched to TDK and they burn no problem. Try a different brand of disc, or even a different package.
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Well, I'd like to think it's the DVD-RWs, but I've already successfully burned about 5 of them, so I doubt it.
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Nah, my browser seems to be okay now -- or at least it's gone back to being okay with the FoxyTunes media extension. I dunno about ChatZilla.
Oh, and I think the DVD-RW looking like a CD-ROM drive issue might be related to a program called Alcohol 120% somehow, because although Alcohol recognizes the thing as a DVD-RW, AND recognizes the DISK as a blank DVD-RW, its write options come from a list, and there are no DVD-RW writing options in that list.
The problem now is, i don't know what the hell to DO about this, because I uninstalled Alcohol once already and it didn't go back to normal. I dunno.
Oh, and I think the DVD-RW looking like a CD-ROM drive issue might be related to a program called Alcohol 120% somehow, because although Alcohol recognizes the thing as a DVD-RW, AND recognizes the DISK as a blank DVD-RW, its write options come from a list, and there are no DVD-RW writing options in that list.
The problem now is, i don't know what the hell to DO about this, because I uninstalled Alcohol once already and it didn't go back to normal. I dunno.
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Well, I reinstalled Nero (7 Ultra) and it can burn the DVDs, although I need to figure out how to get the audio and video to synchronize now.
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Yeah, I never knew before that Nero was a 12 step program. lol
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Alchohol 120% is a virtual drive system. If you have emulation and a virtual drive enabled it will create drivers for a virtual drive. This in theory COULD perhaps cause a conflict with your DVD-RW but I don't see how.
Best thing to do is this:
Go to My Computer>Properties>Device Manager and open the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and remove the one that correlates to your DVD-RW. Restart the computer and it will redetect and it should make the drive perfect again.
Voila.
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Tried that, actually -- no dice.
The weirdest part is that Windows Explorer recognizes the drive as DVD-RW when there's no disc in it -- but gets all schizophrenic and calls it a CD-ROM when I put a blank DVD-R disc in.
Anyway, apparently Nero Ultra 7 is unaffected.
The weirdest part is that Windows Explorer recognizes the drive as DVD-RW when there's no disc in it -- but gets all schizophrenic and calls it a CD-ROM when I put a blank DVD-R disc in.
Anyway, apparently Nero Ultra 7 is unaffected.
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You might try and see if there are any firmware updates for your drive. I have an NEC ND-3520A, which is almost the same as yours. You can check on the NEC website to see if you need one. What you're dealing with now sounds like a media problem, and the firmware updates mainly deal with media recognition.
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It's not firmware -- I have the 1.03c firmware, which is the latest available for my drive. It's more than likely a protection bypass protocol problem that happened when I installed a third-party disc-emulation/burning program, most likely either Alcohol 120% or Nero 7, because both of those programs recognize the drive and the blanks correctly even though Windows Explorer doesn't.