How can i make my Lite-on-SOHR-5238s CD-RW burner read and burn stuff on a DVD+R/DVD-R? Cause when i put it in my computer doesnt recognize it.

Click start control panel administrive tools,computer management,device manager scroll down cd-dvd rom drives you might see a yellow question mark ? right click you will have options to update driver,roll back driver,or select properties general troubleshoot, select driver click to reinstall drivers click update driver or uninstall then reinstall if this does not fix the problem it might be a registry problem if you cant see your disk drive in windows explorer:
Close all open programs

Click on Start, Run, and type regedit and press Enter
Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

SYSTEM

CurrentControlSet

Control

Class

{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column.

Upper Filters

Lower Filters

Upper Filters.bak

Lower Filters.bak

If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose Delete

After deleting the keys, close the registry editor
Reboot your computer
Open My Computer and check to see if your CD or DVD drives have returned. You may also want to open Device Manager and verify that the yellow exclamation and error code on the CD or DVD drive is gone:. or
you might have to physically unplug the leads for this cd/dvd then plug them back this should activate the found new hardware wizard or
you might have to uninstall then restart your computer then reinstall your DVD/CD then reinstall the driver for this device
if your computer came with a motherboard disk the drivers could be on it
click start control panel administrive tools computer management device manager scroll down cd dvdrom drives if you see a yellow question or exclamation mark?! or a red x right click you will need to update the driver or
select properties general troubleshoot, select driver click to reinstall drivers click update driver
hope this helps

sounds like a faulty electrical connection check all connections that attach PSU to your burner or go into administrative tools,computer management, device manager if yellow? uninstall or roll back then once you uninstall diconect from PSU then re attach re-install

Your combo drive has gone bad, get it repaired

most backup software can do this.

If you have about an hour to wait, you can use the shareware version of winrar to create a multi-volume .rar compressed file. You can set the target file size (in this case 700mb) and it will split it up automatically.

Note that when you restore the data in the future you would have to copy the data all into a single folder before restoring it.

Another option you have is to buy an aftermarket backup/archiving program. nearly every one except the free one with windows will let you burn to cd/dvd.

They will have the lightscribe logo on them if they are compatible. They need to have a special ink embedded on the lable side.

afraid it doesnt have lightscribe built in.

All the best
John

Sounds like bad media to me. Have you tried a more expensive blank like Memorex?

Geno

Try downloading the latest drivers and firmware

with ur cd ROM u will get a cd which contains driver if ur cd ROM U NEED TO INSTALL IT AND ITS AUTO RUN PROCESS SO INSTALL IT AND REBOOT THE PC>rate me SOLVED IF ITS HELP FULL

Often the Laser for the CD section gets burnt out... I have seen this often there is no fix... Ya gonna haveta get a replacement sorry.