dvd drive problems

[joanna petry]

 >:(my writer door will not open. i have two dvd drives  one was selected to write one to play dvds & read i would like to make my dvd  drive write now, as it has the capabilities.what should i do to tell my pc to ignore the nonoperatable drive and only recognize the other to read & write?

[Hopester Doofus]

I might be missing the point here, Joanna, but...

You don't have to tell your PC to ignore one drive and only "see" the other. When you put a CD or DVD in the drive you want to use, it either autoplays or you access the files on it from My Computer under your Start Menu (then right-clicking on the appropriate drive icon and selecting Explore). And if you want to write something to the disk in that drive, the software you are using asks you to tell it what drive you want to copy to.