Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2412 Fresh install, Now can't send to drive.

I had a problem with my RAM(1 512 stick was bad, had it pulled out). After
that I did a fresh install.
I am trying to use the drop down menu to send from my desktop to my drive to
burn to disk. It won't let me. I used to do tihs reguraly. I checked for
new drivers, went through troubleshoot and followed microsoft's advice on the
registry, here,

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320553

Didn't help. Any ideas on what's wrong.

 

Reading what you posted, I wonder if you have burning software installed. My
experience is yes windows includes drivers to read from a CD or DVD, but it
does not come with drivers that support burning to CDs or DVDs. So have you
installed any software to do this? Often this is provided by Sonic.

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You probably need to install the SonicEncoders. They might be on a CD that
shipped with your PC originally, otherwise google for "sonicencoders.msi"
and you should find it...it's on HP's web site as well as the UK Shazam
site.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

 

I downloaded the Sonicencoders and installed, rebooted, still no joy.
David Hettel, I downloaded, Zango grab and burn, and here's a little more
that I've discovered.
The drive will burn to disk with this software. When you go to my computer
and try to look at what's on the disk it says it's not accesable. I can take
the same disk to another computer and look at the disk no problems and the
data is there.
BTW, I'm not trying to burn dvd's just software data.
Windows Media Player says I don't have a cd/dvd drive.
If I put in a disk with a auto play/ auto run feature(like a game) it will
open it and load no problem.
It seems as if windows is not recoginizing that I have a disk drive.
I'm stumped!

 

I have vague memories of something similar...As I remember maybe the answer
was to go into Device Manager and right-click on that drive, and maybe you
can set some properties to force it to be recognized as a recorder. But
generally you shouldn't need that.

Is the drive IDE? If so, can you try it on a different IDE port?

Dana Cline - MCE MVP