I used to own a HP Pavilion a810n, but the motherboard went. Anyway, I had a old IBM Personal Computer 300GL laying around the house. So I swapped some parts, upgraded windows 98 to Windows XP Professional, put in 3 hard drives, a CD-ROM, and a DVD-RW drive. Now heres the problem. The DVD-RW drive is a Lite-On SOHW 1633S, Windows recognizes its name and all, but keeps installing it as a CD-ROM. However, it reads DVD's and even rips them, using CloneDVD X. But when I put in a blank DVD-RW it won't let me record on it. It recognizes it but it says that it had 0 bytes of free space, and 0 bytes of used space. I tried to download an upgraded firmware and the software states that it isnt the correct drive yet it says the detected drive is the one the software needs. I tried to uninstall it and reinstall, and when I pick for Windows not to locate, and I look under the list of drivers, all it shows are CD-ROM drivers. Is there a paticular place to update that list? I looked on Windows Update, and it said the only hardware update I needed was for my LG LCD screen. PLEASE HELP, I have DVD Clone X and I want to burn some movies.
Also I cross flashed it, same results. All the drivers in Windows say CD-ROM, no option for DVD, DVD-RW, or DVD+RW. Just plain CD-ROM.
Let Windows locate and install the new driver. I have the same drive, and upgraded the firmware to BSOY last Christmas. You can get it here: http://codeguys.rpc1.org/firmwares.html Use the stock BSOY, and not the BSOY-patched-crossflashing-multi-colored LED version. Good luck!
