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Well I downloaded CDBurnerXP from filehippo just to try another software to see if I still had a problem and got the error below. I think this has to do with AHCI but not sure.

The optical drive is not being detected in BIOS. So I can't boot anything from a disc. Once booted into Windows, I can still play dvd's on it and audio cd's. Just having trouble writing to a disc. My motherboard is an ASUS M3A78 and all the SATA ports are located right next to each other. So when I switched to AHCI I believe all the SATA ports have switched to AHCI and I think that doesn't work well with optical drives. The motherboard doesn't have any other adapters I can use for a SATA connection. It looks like I may need to buy an IDE optical drive if I want to continue using AHCI for my solid state hard drive. I guess I can try another burning software just to double check.

Just thinking....when I installed windows 8 I forgot to switch the BIOS to AHCI for my solid state drive. I went back and switched it after install. I had to do some registry corrections to be able to do this. I don't know if this would have affected the optical drive but thought it may be worth mentioning.

Does it think I just have a CD-Rom drive instead of an DVD-RW drive?

Nevermind got it! I 17:11:54 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 17:11:54 Microsoft Windows 8 Professional x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) I 17:11:54 Total Physical Memory: 8,387,696 KiB - Available: 5,877,948 KiB I 17:11:54 Initialising SPTI... I 17:11:54 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 17:11:55 -> Drive 1 - Info: ASUS DRW-24B1ST c 1.05 (E:) (SATA) I 17:11:55 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM! I 17:12:15 Device: [2:0:0] ASUS DRW-24B1ST c 1.05 (E:) (SATA) I 17:12:15 Family Tree: I 17:12:15 -> ACPI x64-based PC I 17:12:15 -> Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System I 17:12:15 -> PCI bus I 17:12:15 -> Standard SATA AHCI Controller (VEN_1002&DEV_4391 - ATI - storahci - v6.3.9600.16384) I 17:12:15 -> CD-ROM Drive (ASUS DRW-24B1ST c) (Bus Number 5, Target Id 0, LUN 0)

I'm sorry where is the "drive selection box?"

Hello Friends, I recently received this error and I'm not familiar with how to resolve it. There must be an issue with one of my drivers or BIOS settings or something? I've tried unplugging my burner and plugging it into a different SATA port. It didn't help. This drive has worked before. Possibly when I had Windows 7. I can't remember because I don't use it often. I know I switched from an IDE optical drive to this ASUS Sata drive a couple years ago and it has worked between then and now. I'm using Windows 8.1 64 bit. A practically brand new ASUS DRW-24B1ST c-20 I have provided a few different screenshots: one of the error, device manager, and a picture of the optical drive itself.