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I don't know where to send this, but I'll try here.
I have a laptop (Toshiba Satellite 1135-S155) with a 40 GB HD, 512 MB
RAM, Celeron (2.0 GHZ), running XP Pro with a built-in combo drive (DVD
player/CD-ROM/CD-RW). I wanted the ability to store more than 700MB of
data on a disk, so I purchased an Aopen DRW8800AAN drive and put it in
an external drive enclosure which hooks into one of my USB ports. Once
the disk was installed, the operating system recognized the new hardware
and installed the driver for it. Once installed, both the internal and
external disk drives can play a DVD, play a music CD, as well as read a
data CD, however, neither will now recognize a blank disk as blank and
recordable. Whenever I put in a blank disk, the disk designation (that
appears in Windows Explorer changes from "DVD/CD-RW Drive (D" or
"DVD-RW Drive (E" to "CD-ROM" and if you look at the properties of the
disk it says the same as if there was nothing in the drive (disk
completely full and not writable).
Has anyone got a clue as what I need to do to get this to work????
TIA.
Jim Donovan
I don't know where to send this, but I'll try here.
I have a laptop (Toshiba Satellite 1135-S155) with a 40 GB HD, 512 MB
RAM, Celeron (2.0 GHZ), running XP Pro with a built-in combo drive (DVD
player/CD-ROM/CD-RW). I wanted the ability to store more than 700MB of
data on a disk, so I purchased an Aopen DRW8800AAN drive and put it in
an external drive enclosure which hooks into one of my USB ports. Once
the disk was installed, the operating system recognized the new hardware
and installed the driver for it. Once installed, both the internal and
external disk drives can play a DVD, play a music CD, as well as read a
data CD, however, neither will now recognize a blank disk as blank and
recordable. Whenever I put in a blank disk, the disk designation (that
appears in Windows Explorer changes from "DVD/CD-RW Drive (D" or
"DVD-RW Drive (E" to "CD-ROM" and if you look at the properties of the
disk it says the same as if there was nothing in the drive (disk
completely full and not writable).
Has anyone got a clue as what I need to do to get this to work????
TIA.
Jim Donovan