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From: kony on 14 Feb 2010 07:47
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:12:23 -0000, "Tinkerer"
<invalidaddress(a)invalidaddress.invalid> wrote:


>> I would guess that WinXP is considering only one drive the
>> default for burning CDs, but you could select which to use
>> with burning software if that software is sufficiently up to
>> date to recognize the capabilities of both drives.
>
>I am glad to hear you say that because we have pretty well come to that
>conclusion as well, it just seemed a bit unbelievable. For interest he has
>Nero Burning Rom installed (version 6 I believe) and that simply says that
>the DVD burner is not present but, like XP, happily works with the CD
>burner. Also like XP, it is happy to use the DVD burner when the CD drive
>is not present.

Then it is not what I was referring to. I was referring to
_ONLY_ when XP alone could not do it - which would be
unrelated to the ability of Nero to use either one, so long
as you selected which drive you wanted to use as the default
in Nero's menu.
From: Tinkerer on 16 Feb 2010 13:03

"kony" <spam(a)spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:12:23 -0000, "Tinkerer"
> <invalidaddress(a)invalidaddress.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>> I would guess that WinXP is considering only one drive the
>>> default for burning CDs, but you could select which to use
>>> with burning software if that software is sufficiently up to
>>> date to recognize the capabilities of both drives.
>>
>>I am glad to hear you say that because we have pretty well come to that
>>conclusion as well, it just seemed a bit unbelievable. For interest he
>>has
>>Nero Burning Rom installed (version 6 I believe) and that simply says that
>>the DVD burner is not present but, like XP, happily works with the CD
>>burner. Also like XP, it is happy to use the DVD burner when the CD
>>drive
>>is not present.
>
> Then it is not what I was referring to. I was referring to
> _ONLY_ when XP alone could not do it - which would be
> unrelated to the ability of Nero to use either one, so long
> as you selected which drive you wanted to use as the default
> in Nero's menu.

He may well have not known how to configure it in Nero. Anyway, currently
we have switched the CD Writer for a straight DVD Reader and all seems now
to be working satisfactorily, he can read CDs and DVDs on both and write CDs
and DVDs on the writer. He is happy with it now so I will let sleeping
dogs lie. Thanks for the responses.
--
Tinkerer


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