thinking all was good how silly am i... No answers please, right done every-thing u suggested,i can play cds,and thats it i could burn them when i had RealPlayer but had to get rid of now cant get it back,but that not the prob,when i try 2 burn in SonicNow,SonicStage or Windows media Player there no driver and it will not let me check i also can not make a recoverey disk as this also says i have no C/d/Recorder,i dont get it as in device manager it says all is well...Thanks in advance for any help given...