I recently formatted my hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP. When everything was up to date, I tried to burn a DVD using windows media player, and I noticed my DVD burner didn't show up. I looked it up in My Computer and it seems to think it's a CD ROM. I can play DVD's on it still; I just can't get anything to recognize it as a DVD burner. I have never had this problem before and I've formatted my hard drive many times.
Unfortunately, the DVD drive is an Artec VPP-8D24Q and I can't find an official web site for it, or any place that offers a driver specifically for it.
PS- it shows up in my Device Manager as ATAPI DVD DUAL 8x4x12.
mine did this a while back.. i put it in another pc.. both vista sp3 machines.. same thing.. i upgraded the firmware and it never happened again.. you could try that.. sometimes it could just be a a corruption in windows. ive seen that too..
I've seen a lot of advice online directing people to update their firmware. Sounds like it solves a lot of problems. Unfortunately, as I stated earlier, the manufacturer's website no longer exists. I can't find a place that offers the firmware.
As for ImgBurn, I downloaded it and it recognized the drive as a dvd writer. Seemed like good news at the time, but I tried to burn a disc and this is what it spit back at me:
I/O Error!
Device:[1:1:0]ATAPI DVD DUAL 8X4X12 ATC1 (I:)(ATA)
