My iTunes does not recognize disc burner. I read through answers on the web page and followed the instructions for removing the GEAR drivers and then reinstalled iTunes. It still says there is no disc burner or software installed. Can anyone help?

I do have full administrative rights on the system so I'm not sure why iTunes didn't recognize me as an administrator (??). I did do the "run as admnistrator" and verified through diagnostics that I was showing as an administrator. Unfortunately, I'm still receiving the "disc burner software not found" error when I try to actually burn a disc. This is maddening!! Everything worked fine when I was importing my CDs (including restoring from a backup I had previously burned) but now it won't let me actually burn a disc. Oh, did I mention I got a new computer? Not sure that would have anything to do with it, but ... Also, we thought maybe it was just that my discs weren't properly formatted so my boyfriend brought over blank discs that he uses every day without any formatting issues and it still wouldn't read those either. Any additional thoughts or ideas are appreciated!!

Ok ... tried this one, too, without success. I'm still getting a message that no supported disc burners are found (see below) and when I ask it turn "burn", I still get the message "disc burner software not found". Any other tricks to try?

Well ... I actually have 3 removeable storage drives on my system: floppy disk, DVD and CD. I know the CD drive is a burner because we pulled it out of my previous system and added it to this system. Previously, when I opened my "computer" link, it showed all three drives. Now it only shows the floppy drive. Having gone through all these various steps to remove drivers and reinstall, have I managed to completely remove these drives?? I know they are connected and have power but the system doesn't seem to be reading them anymore. At this point, I'm officially out of my element! Any thoughts on how to "reinstall" these drives when it doesn't even recognize them? Or is that even an issue that I can resolve?

Been through this one as well and reinstalled the GEAR drivers. Still no success.

Couple of things I spotted right off ... diagnostics still don't show me as an administrator but I told it run as administrator. When it asked to insert a prerecorded CD and then choose which drive to use, I have no drives in the menu to choose from but yesterday I had 2 and shows no external plug-ins installed. Hmmm. Fresh diagnostics below ...

Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)

IBM 8114W2C

iTunes 10.5.2.11

QuickTime 7.7.1

FairPlay 1.13.37

Apple Application Support 2.1.6

iPod Updater Library 10.0d2

CD Driver 2.2.2.0

CD Driver DLL 2.1.3.0

Apple Mobile Device 4.0.0.97

Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.57.0.0

Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)

Gracenote SDK 1.9.5.502

Gracenote MusicID 1.9.5.115

Gracenote Submit 1.9.5.143

Gracenote DSP 1.9.5.45

iTunes Serial Number 00D4AB7C099BA9C8

Current user is not an administrator.

The current local date and time is 2012-01-18 19:18:55.

iTunes is not running in safe mode.

WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.

HDCP is not supported.

Core Media is not supported. (16005)

Video Display Information

Intel Corporation, Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family

Intel Corporation, Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family

**** External Plug-ins Information ****

No external plug-ins installed.

Genius ID: b7d08a26c0b28e9f17d324690b8df8ca

iPodService 10.5.2.11 (x64) is currently running.

iTunesHelper 10.5.2.11 is currently running.

Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.