You don't need a disc and the drive will just show up if you have a burner. You'll see what I mean if you download and install the program Burn4Free.

I have re-installed the software quite a few times in attempt to fix it with reboots and all. I tried to modify the ini to the drive letter that Windows sees for it but there was nothing in there. Same time as the CPU/GPU and everything else. But I tried firing up the burning software to make my discs but I ended up having to move the 22 GB of data to laptop to burn onto 6 x DVDs, and it seems the drive I have in my beast desktop just doesn't want to burn stuff.ĭrive was fully installed in terms of hardware long before even windows was installed. So I never really noticed burning didn't work because I used the drive just fine to read, install driver CDs and grab data of CDs and DVDs with no problem. I burned a few times since I got it but coincidentally used my laptop since that is where my DVD movie burning software is (different than my data and image burning software). I got a good deal for a standard Asus optical drive that reads and write CDs and DVDs, figured that would work just fine. Well it is my very first custom built desktop, that I put together myself. If not I'll want to get an external optical drive but I don't want to spend money if I don't have to. Dropdown menu for selecting drive is empty of choices, blank. Seems to have no issue with this at all, but when I open the burning software, same program I've always used for several years that is on my laptop, it shows 'Drive letter: ' and doesn't show the various disc types and capacities like it does on my laptop and refuses to let me burn anything. On the desktop, the DVD can be formatted/opened/viewed whether it is blank or not, shows 4.38GB/4.38GB free for example on a blank memorex. All this time I've been using my laptop to burn DVDs/CDs but I'm finding it inconvenient now to move data from my main rig to my laptop just to burn the data to the discs. It has always installed CDs and read my data DVDs and such just fine so I never noticed any problems, until recently that is. About 18 months ago I bought this optical drive brand new for my desktop:

Anyburn cannot read media