Re: DVD-RW Becomes DVD-ROM

On 6/18/2011 2:31 PM, Daddy wrote:
I have the Studio XPS 8100 desktop.

My computer's DVD burner is the HL-DT-ST DVD +-RW GH50N. In
the past it has successfully written to CD-Rs and to DVD-Rs,
including the DVD-Rs I currently use. Now, for some unknown
reason, it no longer writes to the DVD-Rs.

While diagnosing this problem, I noticed that when I have a
DVD-R in the drive, the description of the drive in Device
Manager changes...it says DVD-ROM! To be sure I wasn't
dreaming, I started ImgBurn (burning software) and sure
enough, it thought I had put a DVD-ROM into the drive. No
wonder I couldn't burn DVDs!

Before I ask that labyrinth known as Dell Support about
this, I thought I would ask the people who /really/ know
what's going on. So what do you think...what could the
problem be and how do I solve it?

Daddy
Over the past 25 plus years the one constant has been that
optical drives fail with use. The write side seems to be the
most trouble prone, in my experience. So just replace it and
move on.
.

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