I can't seem to get Roxio to see either of my two rom drives. Any suggestions?

Roxio won't detect a Read Only drive - you need a RW drive

I have an rw drive... I just bought this computer and I burned a few cd's already.. then it just won't recognize my drives.

OK - let's start again

Does it see the RW drive (forget the ROM drives - it won't list those)

What RW drive do you have?

Is iot showing in Control Panel, System, Device Manager?

Yes its a TSST corp CD/DVDWTS-H652M ATA DEVICE

Try this - go to control panel, system, device manager. Find the CD-RW drive and 'uninstall' it. Reboot and see if it gets picked up by the program

ok I'll try that.

Let us know if it works - just click on uninstall and let it reboot and detect the drive afresh

What Roxio versions won't detect a Read Only drive ?

cd

Ok I did that but it still can't locate a drive. My drives are visible in the device manager just not in Roxio Creator Basic 9. At the bottom of the home screen it say "no drive detected"

Go here - you may need to update the drive firmware

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/FIRMWARE/...ware-SC01.shtml

I have the file but I can't open it. Apparently this computer can't open up bin files and I don't know what to use to open either.

Usually you get an exe file to flash the firmware on the drive - seems odd that Samsung didn't include that.

You may find some info in the manual - you can download this from here
http://www.samsung.com/support/productsupp...M&language=

Just found this as well - an auto-update from Samsung

http://www.samsungodd.com/eng/LiveUpdate/LiveUpdate.asp

Their website is harder to navigate than finding a path across an Irish bog

Thank you for those sites I have book marked them for future use, I tried the auto update but there aren't any for my drive yet... or patches. I really think that the problem lies in the software... the problem is that Roxio came bundled with my pc and I don't have a disc to reinstall the program. Are there any other avenues I can try, that you could think of? Thank you for all of your time and work!

If it came bundled, you probably have an OEM version and, normally the OEM is responsible for support. Can you vontact the maker and see if they have the software? You are supposed to have it, either as a backup partition or on separate discs

Hi, I'm new here, and I'm having the same problem with EMC9. On 3/3/07 I bought the LG 18x Multi DVD Rewriter model GSA-H42L. It is compatible with all CD/DVD formats and has Lightscribe. It worked fine for a couple days. For the past 3 days though, the bottom of the Roxio Home screen reads 'No Drive Detected'. My PC detects it as DVD-RAM Drive (E:), the drive plays CD's, DVD's, and it burns CD's through Windows Media Player, and VLC player as well. I cant tell if its my burner or not that isnt working properly. I've uninstalled it, unplugged it, and downloaded an update for my NVIDIA vid card. I cant find firmware for my drive. I'm about to return it for a new one if I cant find out whats wrong in a couple days. Does anyone else have this drive? It's pretty new. I'd really appreciate anyone's input.

Hello, I had this same problem when I first installed EMC 9. Went through all the diagnostic processes listed above with no luck. On one of the news groups I found someone suggested removing the Drag & Drop feature of EMC. Worked like a charm. Right after rebooted my system Roxio detected both of my drives. Apparently the D&D feature causes the DVD/CD burner to appear as though it were in use so Roxio does not find any free devices.

Give it a try and see if it fixes your problem.

Try and run this program

I uninstalled the D&D feature a while ago just cause i didnt like it. i downloaded this patch, it didnt fix this problem though. maybe i should just uninstall/install roxio. i havent tried that yet.

Try a Repair on it, first.

It works! i should have just restarted my pc after i ran the patch. i just restarted my pc and checked roxio, and it recognises my drive. Thanks for giving me the direct link to the patch !!!

You're welcome

I had the same problem and looked on a microsoft site which gave me step by step instructions and low and behold they were detected.

The article you looked at was probably about Upper and Lower filters.As was explained to me the pxengine update does this same thing.Plus it updates the engine.

After I changed my sound card Roxio would not read my CD drives; MS Media Player and PlayDVD would but not Roxio. After hours of frustration I came across your link, installed it and restarted. Problem solved in minutes. Many thanks.

Cool.Another satisfied customer

Thanks, tbrewst. The program url you provided worked for my VISTA machine with Roxio Media Manager 9.1.072 that came bundled with my Blackberry Desktop Manager. I believe Roxio worked until I loaded iTunes. My problem was No Drive Detected by Roxio, yet Windows Media Player had no problem playing cds. I uninstalled iTunes, ran the program you provided (pxengine1_08_34a.exe) and then restarted my computer. Now, at least one time, Roxio does find my drive. I hope it will still find it after a shutdown and restart.