Thanks for the post NCHGB. I have the same CDR-RW drive in the same computer that I had when it worked successfully with a Roxio program. As I noted in my initial post, when I click on 'My Computer' on my desktop, and then go into 'Properties' for that drive, under the 'Recording' tab, everything looks good and recording is enabled. If I can't get it to be recognized and burn a disk with this software, how else could I test it to see if it is functional? The last computer science class that I took was in 1984. I believe Pascal was the language of the time. Thanks for your help and patience.