I have a Dell Dimension 1100 and bought a ATAPI - DVD A DH20A4P DVD/RW and installed it into the Dell. Now it has 2 CD/DVD roms. One DVD/RW (ATAPI) and one CD/RW/DVD rom(stock for it). But when I am in windows (XP - Home Ed) and go under my computer it recognizes the drive as E:/ but only as E:/ DVD RAM and wont burn dvd's or recognize and dvd's in the drive and some cd's for that matter. But it does work like a regular CD drive most of the time. It has the driver install 9p59 firmware. Help please!!!! Going CRAZY!!!!
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those are the basic drivers for all cd. dvd, and rw drives. if you are trying to use the drive to burn a cd/dvd you need to purchase software for it your download a free burning software from filehippo.com called xpburner or burnerxp i cant recall the exact name
you can try two solutions
1) go to device manager and uninstall the primary and secondary ide controller under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and than restart the system and than chk it if that works out
2 ) if the first option doesnt work try to update the firmware of the drive
CD-RW/DVD ROM
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