Lightscribe drive??

I have a Pavilion g6-1d21dx notebook.  It does not have the lightscribe logo and the specs for the machine do not indicate lightscribe, but the drive itself does have the disc encoder sensor required for a lightscribe drive.  So, is it really a lightscribe drive, but it is not enabled?  Is there anything I can do to enable it?  Is there any workaround or is the hardware physically disabled?

Try installing the lightscribe software:
http://lightscribe.com/DownloadSection/windows/index.aspx
You need the system software and the simple labeler to test. If it does not work just uninstall it.
See if you can borrow a lightscribe disk and see if you can burn an image.
Or, go into device mananger and give us the hardware ID of the drive and we can look it up and see if has lightscribe capability. Personally I think lightscribe is overrated. The burn time for a good image is forever and the media is expensive. There is a good reason it never caught on in a big way.

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