Pioneer DVR-104 not showing up in recording programs?

[guywithaquestion]

I have a Pioneer DVR-104 drive, but any application that records to either
DVD-Rs or CD-Rs doesn't list it as a Recording device. My other drive
(Plextor 24/10/40A) shows up just fine, but programs like CDRWin don't show
it as a recorder (the DVR-104 drive that is). Anyone have any clue how to
fix this?
Thanks.
Bryan

[Pierre3674]

Hey i am having the exact same problem.
Primo says that it could not find a compatible recorder installed on the PC, yet on the recorders tab it does show the Pioneer DVR-104 there.

Any help would be appreciated.

[guywithaquestion]

It could be that you need the update to the PX Engine. It's very hard to find on the Veritas website, but here is a link to it (current as of 8/4/2002)

http://www.veritas.com/us/products/recordnow/drivers/

look for the "Download Px Engine" link on that page.

I think I've also solved my problem from before and it's quite simple. The programs I was using to burn quite simply didn't support my burner drive. There were other programs that did, so I started using those.

[lattedfw]

This may be a long shot, but I encountered something vaguely similar this past weekend.

Do you see the drive in Windows Explorer?
I installed MS Media Player 7.1 and then applied the patches via Windows Update (in Windows 2000). My 2 CD drives disappeared and the Device Manager showed errors loading the driver for the drives. I ended up uninstalling Windows Media player (reverting to the bare-bones original one which suits me just fine) and re-installing Roxio Easy CD Creator.

My other PC with a DVD writer and DVD-ROM is still OK with the Media Player updates, Prassi and a few of the Roxio tool programs.

You might also try going to Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, selecting Media Player, then add/remove components in the install process, and removing the Adaptec CD Burning Plug-In. That conflicted with my other CD burning software.

As I said, this is not quite your problem, but probably worth investigating to eliminate as a possibility.