A quick Google turned up about 20 paid products and 5 unpaid products that looked at least promising and moderately maintained. After reducing my list to the top three free–or nearly free–choices, I decided to give CDBurnerXP a go.

It didn’t find my DVD/CD combo drive, so I checked from explorer and found that it wasn’t being detected. A quick jumper fix and the drive was now on Cable Select and working for windows.

However, it still didn’t appear in CDBurnerXP. On a hunch, I un/re-installed CDBurnerXP. Low and behold, there it was. Hmmm. That means that should I change drives or add a new drive, I’d probably have to do the un/re-install again to get it to detect them.

However, the functionality/usability of the app is great, so I dropped a donation in their paypal acct and and decided to stick with it. I’ll post an update if I change my mind later.