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Hi
I have Windows 8 installed and if I right click on my CD/DVD drive my Recording tab is missing in Properties. Basically I can read any CD/DVD but I cannot write a CD/DVD. I have 3 CD/DVD drives on my computer. I found the following solution on this problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316529
However this is for Windows XP and I would like to find the solution for Windows 8. Basically I cannot find the register Drives/Volume GUID in Windows 8.
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,
Would you please first check whether your DVD/CD drives or the CDs you inserted support burning?
Meanwhile, for missing feature of CD/DVD drive issue, the driver could be the most possible cause.
Please go to manufacture's of your CD/DVD drive, download the latest driver applied to Windows 8 and install it to check the issue.
To avoid the cause of improperly loading the driver, I suggest we disable Windows 8 fast boot to see what's going on:
Please refer to this article: Disable Windows 8 fast startup (hibernate file)
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3152/~/disable-windows-8-fast-startup-(hibernate-file)
To further help you, please upload your system information into skydrive or similar network drives and post back the shared link here for my research.
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