Enabling cd burning in windows: only on one drive at a time

[mattyboy]

After clicking "enable cd recording on this drive" under the hardware tab on the drive properties, windows will only allow you to do this with one burner at a time. If you try to select it on both, it unchecks it from the other drive.
I read that you have to change the drives physical order (on the IDE cables I guess) but to what order? Does someone have this configuration already, so that they can share with me what way to set up my drives? I dont believe that both my burners are on the same IDE cable, so could it be the jumpers?

[jimmalenko]

What are you using to burn with ? Nero (and any other decent burning software) should let you choose either burner - it's not up to windows to pick and choose that for you.

[offline]

So you want to use the inbuilt cd recording option
in windows? That seems to be what you are asking
about? I would leave it and use a dedicated burning
application.

If you want to keep it then you only
have the choice of one burner at a time - this setting
has no effect on dedicated burning software like Nero.

[mattyboy]

I want to use the windows burning for just small files and stuff, having it enabled on both lets both drives burn through windows, there is a way to fix it so both are enabled but I dont know how to do it.

[offline]

Here is your shortcut I think:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316529

[mattyboy]

sorry thats not it, THIS is the one I needed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;294652

this is the link I needed, thanks for looking though, but I dont understand what i need to do with this one. This covers my issue to a tee, but I need help understanding what to do. Ithink it says to change the device to their own cable but I have them like that already.
But like I said Im pretty sure that each BURNER is on its own IDE cable.
I have one on each IDE, and a dvd ROM in a an external box, via firewire (1394)

[offline]

If this your problem then as I said in my first post

you only have the choice of one burner at a time

If you want to change that one burner to another
burner go to the boot sequence section of your
bios and make that burner the 1st in line.

Changing a device to its own cable is not going to
help. You have to physically have one cdr burner
before another in order to get it to work and
do it logically through the bios (Although the bios
method does not work for all systems.)

-edit-

Q1. Is your bios boot sequence the way you want it?
Q2. Does your bios boot sequence match the real order of burners
or is it different? Have you tried to change it?
Q3. What exacly do you want to do withg this and why? There may be
a third party application that can assist.

[mattyboy]

Ive had them both enabled before, I just dont know how I did it. I figured that you always could, but I guess not, now I lost how I did it.

[offline]

It can't be done with Xp 's inbuilt cd recording, period

You may be thinking of a 3rd third party packet writing interface, for example: Roxio DirectCD?, CeQuadrat PacketCD?, Ahead, Nero InCD

[ViRaL1]

It can't be done with Xp 's inbuilt cd recording, period

You may be thinking of a 3rd third party packet writing interface, for example: Roxio DirectCD?, CeQuadrat PacketCD?, Ahead, Nero InCD

I second that. That's the only time I've seen more than one option. I'm curious though, why the need to use more than one drive at a time?