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Friday 20 July 2012

NO option to send data to the CD-ROM drive…?


When you view the properties of the CD-R drive or CD-RW drive, you may notice that the
Recording tab is not displayed in the CD Drive Properties dialog box. To resolve this issue,
edit the Microsoft Windows registry to identify the CD-R drive or CD-RW drive as a
recordable drive. To do this, follow these steps.
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Expand the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD
Burning\Drives
4. On the File menu, click Export.
5. In the File name box, type backup of drives key, and then click Save.
6. In the left pane of the Registry Editor window, click the Volume{GUID} folder under
Drives, where GUID is a 32-character hexadecimal globally unique identifier. If you have
more than one CD-ROM drive in the computer, an additional Volume{GUID} folder is listed
for each drive.
7. In the right pane of the Registry Editor window, double-click Drive Type.
8. In the Value data box, type 1 or 2, depending on the drive type, and then click OK. The
drive type should be 1 if it is a CD-R and 2 if it is a CD-RW.
9. Quit Registry Editor.
10. Click Start, and then click My Computer.
11. Under Devices with Removable Storage, right-click the CD-R drive or CD-RW drive, and
then click Properties on the shortcut menu.
12. If the Recording tab is displayed, Windows recognizes the drive as a recordable device.
13. Click Cancel.
If you have more than one CD-ROM drive, DVD-ROM drive, or CD-RW drive in the
computer and the Recording tab is not displayed, an incorrect drive may have been
configured as "recordable" in the Windows registry. To troubleshoot this issue, follow these
steps:
Follow steps 1 through 9 to edit the Drive Type value of the Volume{GUID} folder whose
value you previously changed. In the Value data box, type 3, and then click OK. The drive
type value of 3 indicates that the drive is a standard CD-ROM and is not writable. In the left
pane of the Registry Editor window, click the next Volume{GUID} folder. Follow steps 7
and 8 to change the Value data entry to 1 or 2, depending on the drive type. Quit Registry
Editor, and then follow steps 10 through 12 to confirm that the Recording tab is displayed in
the properties dialog box of the CD-R drive or CD-RW drive

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