Question about my cd rom drive: TSSTcorp CDW/DVD TS-H492A

Hi,

I'm a little naive when it comes to what some things mean with cd rom drives.
My question is, my computer came installed with a CD DVD rom drive.
It says on it's door that it's a CD writer/DVD rom combo and the installed driver for it is: TSSTcorp CDW/DVD TS-H492A

My question is, is my cd drive a burner? I just tried to burn something using ahead nero (which I installed), and when I tried to burn the files a save prompt came up asking me if I wanted to save the file as a nero image file. I did this to see what would happen and the burn process proceeded, and when it finished this nero image file was in my documents folder and nothing was on the blank disc. If my cd drive is a burner, do I have to configure something somewhere to make it work? Or is my cd drive instead not a burner? I'm running windows XP home edition with SP3

Thanks.

 

Your drive is a mix between the two.

It can read and write CD's but can only read DVD's. Was it a DVD you were trying to write to with Nero?

 

No, it was data files from a game.

Thanks for the response wildfire. I actually found out after I posted here that my drive is capable of burning. I did a search on google, and found out a function I didn't know XP had with burning where I just drag and drop the files into the cd icon in the my computer window. (I didn't know I could do that since on my old computer I used nero for burning cd's).

I haven't been using xp all that long and I'm still learning the things it can do.

Thanks again for responding wildfire.

 

No problem,

But just to confirm, your drive will write to CD's but not DVD's. Keep that in mind for the future.

When using Nero set the target as your drive not an image and all should be well.

 

It is a SAMSUNG probably writemaster, I use it myself.