Very strange, Check to see if liteon has a firmware update for you burner
then. But on all three systems i have here, I can select my burner drive the
way i told you in the last reply. yours should be the same.

Start menu,
then computer,
right click on the drive icon,
slide down menu to proporties,
RIGHT click on proporties,
A menu will pop up with

General hardware sharing customize RECORDING

Select recording then chose your drive!!

"Ben" wrote:

Thanks for your reply, but there is no Recording menu on that drive. :-(

Ben

"loaderopp" wrote in message
...
Go to my computer, Highlight your DVD burner, Right click your mouse
button
on your highlighted drive. Slide down to bottom of pop up menu. Right
click
mouse button on properties. A menu will appear, On the top right side of
menu
it will say
(recording) Right click on recording. another menu will appear you can
select what drive to want to record to.

"Ben" wrote:

Sorry loaderopp I don't follow, what do you mean "top of menu, right side
click and select drive to burn to"?

cheers,
Ben

"loaderopp" wrote in message
...
my computer, click on DVD burner, right click properties, top of menu,
right
side click and select drive to burn to

"Ben" wrote:

Hi Michael,

When viewing the Drive properties there is no Recording tab. When
viewing
that device there are four tabs:
- General
- Hardware
- Sharing
- Customize

When viewing the hardware properties there are five tabs:
- General
- DVD Region
- Volumes
- Driver
- Details

cheers,
Ben

"Michael Solomon" wrote in message
...
Ben wrote:
Hi folks,

I have a Liteon SHM-165P6S DVD-RW device and I can write discs with
3rd-party tools such as DeepBurner, but Vista doesn't recognise its
burning capabilities. For example, the 'DVD Burner' list in DVD
Maker is empty.
Any ideas why this may be? How can I resolve this lack of Windows
functionality?

cheers,
Ben
Try this, right click the drive in Explorer, select properties, go
to
the
recording tab and make sure "Enable CD recording on this drive is
selected," click apply and ok. If it's already selected, unselect
it,
click apply and ok, then select it gain and click apply and ok. By
the
way, if it's not selected and selecting it resolves the issue, you
may
have to unselect it to get all the functions of your third party
software
to work again.
--
Michael Solomon

Nope - first 4 options only: General, Hardware, Sharing & Customize.

cheers,
Ben

"loaderopp" wrote in message
...

Very strange, Check to see if liteon has a firmware update for you burner
then. But on all three systems i have here, I can select my burner drive
the
way i told you in the last reply. yours should be the same.

Start menu,
then computer,
right click on the drive icon,
slide down menu to proporties,
RIGHT click on proporties,
A menu will pop up with

General hardware sharing customize RECORDING

Select recording then chose your drive!!

"Ben" wrote:

Thanks for your reply, but there is no Recording menu on that drive. :-(

Ben

"loaderopp" wrote in message
...
Go to my computer, Highlight your DVD burner, Right click your mouse
button
on your highlighted drive. Slide down to bottom of pop up menu. Right
click
mouse button on properties. A menu will appear, On the top right side
of
menu
it will say
(recording) Right click on recording. another menu will appear you can
select what drive to want to record to.

"Ben" wrote:

Sorry loaderopp I don't follow, what do you mean "top of menu, right
side
click and select drive to burn to"?

cheers,
Ben

"loaderopp" wrote in message
...
my computer, click on DVD burner, right click properties, top of
menu,
right
side click and select drive to burn to

"Ben" wrote:

Hi Michael,

When viewing the Drive properties there is no Recording tab. When
viewing
that device there are four tabs:
- General
- Hardware
- Sharing
- Customize

When viewing the hardware properties there are five tabs:
- General
- DVD Region
- Volumes
- Driver
- Details

cheers,
Ben

"Michael Solomon" wrote in message
...
Ben wrote:
Hi folks,

I have a Liteon SHM-165P6S DVD-RW device and I can write discs
with
3rd-party tools such as DeepBurner, but Vista doesn't recognise
its
burning capabilities. For example, the 'DVD Burner' list in DVD
Maker is empty.
Any ideas why this may be? How can I resolve this lack of
Windows
functionality?

cheers,
Ben
Try this, right click the drive in Explorer, select properties,
go
to
the
recording tab and make sure "Enable CD recording on this drive is
selected," click apply and ok. If it's already selected,
unselect
it,
click apply and ok, then select it gain and click apply and ok.
By
the
way, if it's not selected and selecting it resolves the issue,
you
may
have to unselect it to get all the functions of your third party
software
to work again.
--
Michael Solomon

I know it works with 3rd-party apps as I've successfully burned with
DeepBurner. Computers, eh!? Sigh... why don't these things just *work*?

Ben

"Michael Solomon" wrote in message
...
Ben wrote:
I contacted Lite-On. They replied that the version of Nero supplied
with that drive isn't Vista compatible (mine was OEM anyway) so I
should use a newer version of Nero. They evaded answering the
question of Vista's support for the hardware itself.

LOLWell, it's not a total loss then. The implicatin at least is that it
will work with latest version of Nero in Vista. I'm sure we'll hear from
you if it doesn't and yeah, I'd be ****ed too!VBG
--
Michael Solomon

Ben wrote:
I know it works with 3rd-party apps as I've successfully burned with
DeepBurner. Computers, eh!? Sigh... why don't these things just
*work*?
Ben

Well, I suppose they would if the PC was a unified platform. There are so
many configurations, so much different hardware, chipsets, software
combintations, so many variebles and so many different ways of doing the
same thing.
--
Michael Solomon

Resolved! FYI I uninstalled the JMB363 device and allowed Windows to find
drivers online. After installation Device Manager featured an IDE ATA/ATAPI
controller, which was hosting my DVD-RW. Windows is now able to use the
burner as it should. :-) thanks to those who helped here.

cheers,
Ben

"Ben" wrote in message
...
Hi folks,

I have a Liteon SHM-165P6S DVD-RW device and I can write discs with
3rd-party tools such as DeepBurner, but Vista doesn't recognise its
burning capabilities. For example, the 'DVD Burner' list in DVD Maker is
empty.

Any ideas why this may be? How can I resolve this lack of Windows
functionality?

cheers,
Ben

Ben wrote:
Resolved! FYI I uninstalled the JMB363 device and allowed Windows to
find drivers online. After installation Device Manager featured an
IDE ATA/ATAPI controller, which was hosting my DVD-RW. Windows is
now able to use the burner as it should. :-) thanks to those who
helped here.
cheers,
Ben

"Ben" wrote in message
...
Hi folks,

I have a Liteon SHM-165P6S DVD-RW device and I can write discs with
3rd-party tools such as DeepBurner, but Vista doesn't recognise its
burning capabilities. For example, the 'DVD Burner' list in DVD
Maker is empty.

Any ideas why this may be? How can I resolve this lack of Windows
functionality?

cheers,
Ben
That's great, Ben, thanks for letting us know how you resolved the issue.
--
Michael Solomon

I'm having the exact same problem with a similar LITE-ON DVDRW on my 32-bit
vista ultimate system. My model is show in device manager as a:

LITE-ON DVDRW LH-18A1P SCSI CdRom Device

It definitely is the is a case of the device being recognized as a reader
and not as a writer it lists the device type as a "DVD/CD-ROM drive".
Everything Ben has said rings true for my situation as well so I'm assuming
it is the same exact issue. As an additional note this is an IDE drive
connected to the JMicron JMB363 controller on my Asus P5B Deluxe (which isn't
the same as Ben's but is pretty close).

I have flashed the drive with the latest firmware (which is less than a
month old) from LITE-ON, but this hasn't helped at all. I'm wondering if the
easiest solution here is to buy a different brand of drive given it seems
vista just doesn't want to recognize these things...

NOTE: the follow KB article for XP sounds like it is exactly for this type
of issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316529/

I went looking down the registry path mentioned in this article and once I
get down to the ...CD Burning\Drives sub-key I see (big surprise) no drives
listed. Is there no way to force vista into treating a drive as a DVD-RW
instead of a DVD-ROM?

"Dan" wrote:

I'm having the exact same problem with a similar LITE-ON DVDRW on my 32-bit
vista ultimate system. My model is show in device manager as a:

LITE-ON DVDRW LH-18A1P SCSI CdRom Device


I didn't see the rest of this thread before I wrote this. As it turns out
my problem was the JMB363 as well and updating its driver has fixed my issue
as well.

So I definitely had the same problem, but I'm fixed now too.

Ben wrote:
Resolved! FYI I uninstalled the JMB363 device and allowed Windows to
find drivers online...

Hi Ben. I'm glad you fixed it, but I'm curious where the 'wrong'
drivers came from in the first place. Were they leftovers from a
prior XP, maybe?

I just wanted to add I have the same problem with Vista Premium. I installed
two different burners with the same result. Vista will not recognize either
and lists them as SCSI devices. So it looks to me this a common problem at
this point.

"Ben" wrote:

Michael,

Yes, I suspect it is just a case of a missing driver. I was hoping that I
had failed to to something obvious, and hence posted this thread.

The device isn't SCSI, it's a conventional ATA/IDE device that is connected
through the JMicron JMB36X controller of the Abit AB9 Pro motherboard.
Since that host can take IDE and SATA devices, perhaps that's the reason the
optical device is picked up as SCSI. If I recall correctly, storage devices
on PCI controller cards sometimes show up as SCSI even if they're not (?),
so perhaps this is the same.

FYI: I've also tried attaching the drive via USB2 (with an IDE-USB
converter) with exactly the same results.

The device itself is using the current firmware available from Liteon's
website although I've not yet contacted them about Vista support.

cheers,
Ben

"Michael Solomon" wrote in message
...
Ben wrote:
That's exactly the problem - I think it's being recognised as a
reader and not a read/writer. It's listed in Device Manager as
"LITE-ON DVDRW SHM-165P6S SCSI CdRom Device"

Ben

I apologize, Ben, I should have read your original post a little closer.
Is this, in fact, a SCSI device? Have you checked with Lite-ON for
updates that might help get this device recognized by Vista. BigJim, in
the second post in this thread actually diagnosed the issue. If it's not
a SCSI device but it is being recognized as such, perhaps a firmware
update would resolve the issue but that still would have to come from
Lite-ON. Even then, you still might need additional drivers for your
specific device; I'd check with Lite-ON.

--
Michael Solomon