Xp says DVD is CD

sshe11

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I have Win XP Pro. running on my system with :
Liteon 16X DVD drive ... It works fine reads DVD,CD's but when I open up Windows Explorer it shows :

D: CD-RW
E: CD Drive (instead of DVD)

In Device manager it shows Liteon DVD under the CD Drives Menu ....

Please advise ????
 

elzt

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That's normal. If you check further in device manager under driver tab, you should see that both DVD and CD drives share the same driver (something like cdrom.sys). I guess the M$ programmers were just too lazy to categorize optical drives.