I think you are looking at system properties and hardware!!! You should be on your desktop. Right Click the icon 'My Computer' 'OPEN' my Computer The 'My Computer' menu opens up showing all your drives Right click on your problem CD then click 'properties'
Are you saying that it should read Drive:S? Can you snapshot explore in windows and show me all the drives that you have?
If you have Roxio installed, look at this link. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q315350 Might also look at: Start Control panel Administrative Tools Services IMAPI CD Burning see if it's set to Automatic in properties
Do both drives give you the same problem? Are you saying that neither drive will recognize blank media? Have you checked your cables and made sure that the drives are mastered and slaved correctly? You may have to take the unit in to a PC doctor.
Oh the F drive is a virtual one, ignore it, and I have a bit of an update, well i can take most DVDs but there are x4 ones and i have about 50 of them so you can imagine id like to be able to use them.