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Anonymous   08-14-2004 at 08:10:30 PM

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Hello all!

I have a Pioneer DVD A03 drive in an external Firewire
enclosure connected via a Firewire (IEEE 1394) card in my
Sony VAIO (PCV-L400) OLD 400Mhz Pentium 2 computer. I'm
running Windows XP Sp1 Home Edition, but somehow the
Operating System sees the DVD drive as a cd drive and
does not allow me to burn DVD's.

Are external Firewire drives not supported under XP? Do I
need to download some drivers or something? What can I
do? Do I have to wait for the new Windows Update? When
will the new update actually show up??

Thanks,

Vidur

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"Vidur Sood" wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I have a Pioneer DVD A03 drive in an external Firewire
> enclosure connected via a Firewire (IEEE 1394) card in my
> Sony VAIO (PCV-L400) OLD 400Mhz Pentium 2 computer. I'm
> running Windows XP Sp1 Home Edition, but somehow the
> Operating System sees the DVD drive as a cd drive and
> does not allow me to burn DVD's.
>
> Are external Firewire drives not supported under XP? Do I
> need to download some drivers or something? What can I
> do? Do I have to wait for the new Windows Update? When
> will the new update actually show up??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vidur
>
What burning software are you using?
The native one on XP does not support DVD burning

My external shows up and can burn only if I'm burning CD-R's and have
enable recording set in the drives properties.Only 1 drive can be set at any
time. Unless you are unsing a third party's burning software.

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