CD burner not recognized with Media player or windows explorer

My cd burner is not recognized by windows media player 11 or windows explorer
or my computer....so i can't burn anything to a cd through those...but my
roxio application recognizes it and i can burn music through it, i'm just
used to using windows media player to make cds and such. i noticed this
problem a couple months ago....i have used WM11 tons of times in the past to
make cds (and windows explorer, too)....a computer tech told me i'd probably
have to do a non-destruct recovery (if i was lucky it might work)...if it
didn't i'd have to do a destructive recovery and reload tons of software i've
added to my computer, which i've already had to do once and never want to do
again.

"AU89" <AU89@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:93607B40-28FD-4759-86B7-E54BA333E881@microsoft.com...
> My cd burner is not recognized by windows media player 11 or windows
> explorer
> or my computer....so i can't burn anything to a cd through those...but my
> roxio application recognizes it and i can burn music through it, i'm just
> used to using windows media player to make cds and such. i noticed this
> problem a couple months ago....i have used WM11 tons of times in the past
> to
> make cds (and windows explorer, too)....a computer tech told me i'd
> probably
> have to do a non-destruct recovery (if i was lucky it might work)...if it
> didn't i'd have to do a destructive recovery and reload tons of software
> i've
> added to my computer, which i've already had to do once and never want to
> do
> again.
>

Right click on My Computer > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager > click
on the + sign next to DVD & CD Drives (or similar) > is your drive
recognised by Windows ?

If so, right click on it then select un-install. Then reboot and let XP
re-discover it on boot up. Did that work ?

If not, try this : right click on My Computor > manager > Services and
Applications > Services > look for IMAPI Burning ROM Service (or similar).
Is this service stopped or on Manual ? If either, change to automatic >
right click on it > Properties > change Start up Type.

Some software does not like co-existing with the XP burning service (Nero
for example to name but one. Roxio possible, I don't know I don't use it..
You should use one or the other, not both. If you purchased Roxio, disable
the IMAPI XP service and just use Roxio. You may have a conflict. Did this
p^roblem start when you installed Roxio, if so, htere is your problem and
answer !

BTW, your computer tech told you a load of bollocks.

Cheers,
Jerry

I too have lost the capability to burn cd's on WM11. I used to burn them for
my car and work all of the time. I can't figure out what happened but it now
says "connect a burner and restart..." I tried going back to WM10 becuase I
used to burn from there and it says the same thing. I guess I'll have to buy
software now just to burn compilations of music I already own for my car and
work. I don't have time to change cd's after hearing one or two songs from
each, so it was nice to make my own with all of my favorites on them. Oh
well......

"AU89" wrote:

> My cd burner is not recognized by windows media player 11 or windows explorer
> or my computer....so i can't burn anything to a cd through those...but my
> roxio application recognizes it and i can burn music through it, i'm just
> used to using windows media player to make cds and such. i noticed this
> problem a couple months ago....i have used WM11 tons of times in the past to
> make cds (and windows explorer, too)....a computer tech told me i'd probably
> have to do a non-destruct recovery (if i was lucky it might work)...if it
> didn't i'd have to do a destructive recovery and reload tons of software i've
> added to my computer, which i've already had to do once and never want to do
> again.

Yes, i too had the same problem. those previous comands My Computer >
manager > Services and applications etc fixed the problem.
Thank you so very Much!

"orange" wrote:

> "AU89" <AU89@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:93607B40-28FD-4759-86B7-E54BA333E881@microsoft.com...
> > My cd burner is not recognized by windows media player 11 or windows
> > explorer
> > or my computer....so i can't burn anything to a cd through those...but my
> > roxio application recognizes it and i can burn music through it, i'm just
> > used to using windows media player to make cds and such. i noticed this
> > problem a couple months ago....i have used WM11 tons of times in the past
> > to
> > make cds (and windows explorer, too)....a computer tech told me i'd
> > probably
> > have to do a non-destruct recovery (if i was lucky it might work)...if it
> > didn't i'd have to do a destructive recovery and reload tons of software
> > i've
> > added to my computer, which i've already had to do once and never want to
> > do
> > again.
> >
>
> Right click on My Computer > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager > click
> on the + sign next to DVD & CD Drives (or similar) > is your drive
> recognised by Windows ?
>
> If so, right click on it then select un-install. Then reboot and let XP
> re-discover it on boot up. Did that work ?
>
> If not, try this : right click on My Computor > manager > Services and
> Applications > Services > look for IMAPI Burning ROM Service (or similar).
> Is this service stopped or on Manual ? If either, change to automatic >
> right click on it > Properties > change Start up Type.
>
> Some software does not like co-existing with the XP burning service (Nero
> for example to name but one. Roxio possible, I don't know I don't use it..
> You should use one or the other, not both. If you purchased Roxio, disable
> the IMAPI XP service and just use Roxio. You may have a conflict. Did this
> p^roblem start when you installed Roxio, if so, htere is your problem and
> answer !
>
> BTW, your computer tech told you a load of bollocks.
>
> Cheers,
> Jerry
>
>
>