CDRW only seen as CD-Rom

Hi Group
Win98 machine won't see a CDRW drive as a burner but just as a CDrom.
In other machines it is seen and works perfectly
Other CDRWs are also not detected as such.
They will read CDs but not burn
Drivers of each brand were installed but still no luck
Is there a registry correction to make this happen?
It is being detected correctly in the BIOS

Help Appreciated

 

Win98 sees all CDR drives as CD-Roms, and does not have the capability to burn. You need to install the software that usually comes with a CDR drive to burn CD's with 98.

 

Sorry
Forgot to say that it is running Nero 5.5 with update

TB

 

I had a problem like that with Win98 FE.

But no problem in Win98 SE

BillyBob

 

Some things you can check on.
Do you have the CD drive's jumper set so that it is a Master Drive? A lot of burners I have come across needs this to be this way.
Do you have DMA enabled for it?
Device Manager, double click the CD entry, click on Settings tab, there is a box for DMA.
Check the Generic IDE TYPE XX under Disk Drives, under the Settings tab to see if DMA is enabled for it also.
In Device Manager, go to Hard Disk Controller, double click the Bus Master PCI IDE Controller, click on Setting tab, change from Default to Both IDE Channels Enabled
And one other thing, if your Nero came with a different burner, it will not work on another, only the one it came with. Windows does not need drivers to read a CD, the software is needed to burn.
Do you have InCD installed and running when trying to burn, Nero normally will not work with InCd loaded in memory at startup.