DVD 1270 not being seen in xp to install at start up windows 7

[billmcgu]

DVD 1270 not being seen at startup in xp to install windows 7. Boot order works - the machine sees  a cd but not a dvd. Installed latest driver for lightscribe from this site. Also tried two other dvds - one a hp 1160 which works on  another machine it sees the dvd on other machine running w7 but not on this new one - ASUS mthrbd P867-M Le. ASUS says it is the DVD and to try another. Seems like it may be a config issue. Any ideas? Thanks

[TheOldMan]

Sometimes WinXP will misreport the drive.  Have you tried to boot to the windows 7 disk on startup?   You cannot install Windows 7 while in WinXP.

[billmcgu]

Did try to boot at startup and would not work.I used a usb drive to boot and that worked for installing windows 7 ( my original intent) but now tried to boot from dvd drive in windows 7 and still no go. Any ideas? Maybe w7 does just not like this 1270 for some reason!

[TheOldMan]

Well, if the drive is good, then try a different SATA port.  It might be that the OS is looking for the drive per the BIOS and it is not on the SATA 0 port. BTW: Does this motherboard have 6GB SATA ports?  Do not use them for DVD drive.

[billmcgu]

Tried another Sata port but no-go. Do have 6GB for the hard drive but using 3GB for the DVD. Weird. May also be the Asus mthrbd! Saw that the HP1260I is fully compatible with W7-64 so may but that and try it.Thanks for all your help!

[pepper5x5]

i have window 7 i've installed hp1270 dvd writer now i would like to know how to burn movies using the external writer step by step instructions