No burning device???

Find utility called 'cdgone'. Download it and save it to desktop.
Open device manager, and uninstall the dvd drive, and close the device manager. Run the 'cdgone' utility, and then reboot your computer. Try to burn discs again.

Does it read CD/DVDs fine? If so, the laser head for writing data to the discs may be defective. Also, keep in mind that when CD/DVD drivers start to fail, they may be able to read/write to CDs and not to DVDs or vice versa.

Otherwise, go to "Start" and right-click on "Computer" and select "Properties". Then, on the top left corner of the window, go to "Device Manager". Expand "Disk drives" and make sure there is no exclamation mark or question mark on the CD/DVD device. If there is, then either the driver software is missing/corrupt or the drive is defective. If no CD/DVD drive is listed, then it is not being recognized as being installed then check all of the cables to make sure nothing's loose, otherwise it is most likely defective.

I suspect your disk drive is faulty or its drivers are missing or corrupt.
Firstly, go into Control Panel, select Device Manager and uninstall the DVD/CDROM driver.
Close your laptop down and when you re boot, Windows will reload the driver.
If that doesn't fix it, you most likely have a faulty drive.
Hope that helps.

The reason for this issue is the lack of a codec software like Cyberlink PowerDVD or PowerCinema.These are paid versions.We could try installing a codec pack from Klite.Its free.The link is : http://www.free-codecs.com/download_soft.php?d=5075&s=775 Please let me know whether it fixed it

Sounds like you have and Upper and Lower Filter issue in the registry.

Listed below is the link for the MS document on how to fix this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461

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I suspect you did not complete all the steps in the document. In the document you need to delete the upper and lower filters in the registry and DELETE the burning software you added, shut down and then reinstall the software. This is often difficult for users since they have no idea what app is causing the problem.

With iTunes, make sure you are using the latest version. Older versions caused this upper and lower filter issue among other burning apps.

In some extreme cases you must uninstall and reinstall ALL burning software on your PC. This is easy on an HP. Delete the SW from Programs and then use Recovery Manager C:\PC Help and Tools\ etc..,. to run Application Recovery. You can only install one app at a time. Shut down between each install and check if your drives show up in Device Manager and burn.

Following the process above (installing one app at a time) will allow you to find out which app you added is causing the problem.

All the HP apps on the PC work fine as the PC is tested for issues like this. Something was added that over-wrote the Upper and Lower filters, essentially corrupting them so your ODDs don't work or don't even show up in Device Manager.

Good luck

Apex44

Try uninstalling the drive, then reinstalling, and/or updating the firmware to the drive (see CDinfo.com ) to see if Windows (XP? Vista?) Media Edition sees it properly. I swear I had to shake my PC for Windows to act right enough on my writers....

You can of course also run Knoppix or another liveCD from another drive and manage to burn DVDs that way. Likewise there might be some registry fixups around to set it right, but you can search Media Edition forums about that as well as I.

hi...

have you uninstall and reinstall your burnning software? change your DVD-R brand, slow down your burnning speed, update your mainboard chipset

may help

Dear Sir/Madam,


This is the problem of not matching/support the motherboard of your driver with Pioneer DVD. U just go the manufacturing site of Pioneer dvd and download the driver / updates and then install it. (Before u uninstall the driver). Then fix it.

Thanks

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The software iVerio might help you. It transfers and converts automatically all your videos from your HDD camcorder.

Have a look on the site http://www.convertmod.com