Besides Roxio 8's Help being of no help to configure/setup/select your Lightscribe drives, I came here to see if there is something I am missing about Roxio in selecting the lightscribe drives to burn labels, as it states I should see my lightscribe drives as a printer.

Previously drive E was the generic installed came with the system drive. I installed a Lightscribe to as drive F. Roxio does not recognize it for burning labels. So I installed a Lightscribe to become drive E. Still Roxio does not recognize the drive as an option to burn to.

I hate the Express Labeler, since there is no option to open your saved file.jwl inside Express Labeler. And with Label Creator, under Help is Lightscribe Diagnostics, which comes up blank nothing listed and since there is no option to setup / recognize a Lightscribe drive, is there any where in the whole Roxio Media Creator 8 for drives other than at startup you can select the Destination Drive and to the right is Options which again has nothing about setting up a Lightscribe, it does under General Advance, my drives are listed and allows to select speed.

And now you are going to wonder do I in fact have a lightscribe drive. Drive E = LG GSA-H10L 16x LightScribe DVD±RW IDE Drive and Drive F is the same.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated....Doc

Download and install the latest drivers for the drive from here

http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/index.aspx

This forum is sure confusing, have no idea how to find a forum, no drop down menu listing the differnet forums.

I just saw General and posted. As for the Light Scribe drivers, why download them? Because Windows XP Media w SP3, recognizes the drive and list it as working properly in Device Manager. I can burn disks...it is EMC8 that does not recognize it and it is EMC8 that has no drive setup/configuration under any option functions of EMC8.

As a matter of fact when booting EMC8 both my drives are listed and I can select destination to either. So if the drives were not working properly or bad drivers, then I doubt the option to select would be an option.

I shall try your suggestions and with 25 years experience I doubt this will work, no other indications point to bad, corrupt or missing drivers.

Doc

Lightscribe is, basically, a printer

Printers need drivers

No drivers - printer dowsn't work.

Windows may recognise it, but won't print to it without the drivers

The LightScribe software is needed to burn a LightScribe label, using any software. If EMC 8 doesn't see your drive, download the PxEngine patch, and apply it. You can find it, here:

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=4195

Windows sees that you have a drive connected and gives you the name. The name does not mean that the burner will burn lightscribe; just that it will (probably) burn a CD or DVD

If you do not have the lightscribe drive drivers, then the burner cannot send the information to the Roxio application. Roxio does not have separate controls for the burner; it uses what the burner says its capability is.

Can you burn with the Lightscribe Template Labeler? It is a stand alone and would have no interface with Roxio.

If the Lightscribe Diagnostics program doesn't see the drive, then there is more of a problem than with Roxio. I fthe drive is installed properly, then Roxio seems to make that the default "printer"

I think that Daithi has you beat on experience with computers and certainly with the program; the same with Bruce. If you came here for help, why are you arguing with the help you are being given?

BTW, I have been using/fixing computers for more than 35 years !

First sknis, I am not arguing...and even with 25 yrs, I do not know everything, and why I came here to ask.

I followed grandpabruce advice in downloading drivers from LightScribe, I installed the LightScribe's System Software and Diagnostic Utility, I ran the diagnostics before installing the System Software and everything checked ok.

I installed the LightScribe's System Software and now EMC8 recognizes the drives as a printer. So even with 25 yrs experience we still can learn. I understand the drive is to emulate a printer and needs drivers, which checking Device Manager, and there are no conflicts with either drive, which I thought is all EMC8 needed. That EMC8 would have its own drivers for compatible LightScribe drives and through updates of EMC8 would be updated and have the drivers. So my mistake for thinking this.

I bought this drive over a year ago and installed, I do not remember if I ran software to install drivers or not, it has been so long. I presumed I had.

I appreciate the advice from everyone...Doc

I am glad to see that you are squared away. I don't often burn LightScribe labels, but my wife likes them, so I have to burn them that way, once in awhile.