CD-R drive or CD-RW drive is not recognized as a recordable device
1 Click Start, and then click Run.
2 In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3 Expand the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\Drives
4 On the File menu, click Export.
5 In the File name box, type backup of drives key, and then click Save.
Note You can restore this registry subkey by double-clicking the backup of drives key.reg file that you saved
6 In the left pane of the Registry Editor window, click the Volume{GUID} folder under Drives, where GUID is a 32-character hexadecimal globally unique identifier
Note If you have more than one CD-ROM drive in the computer, an additional Volume{GUID} folder is listed for each drive.
7 In the right pane of the Registry Editor window, double-click Drive Type.
8 In the Value data box, type 1 or 2, depending on the drive type, and then click OK.

The drive type should be 1 if it is a CD-R and 2 if it is a CD-RW.
9 Quit Registry Editor.
10 Click Start, and then click My Computer.
11 Under Devices with Removable Storage, right-click the CD-R drive or CD-RW drive, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu.
12 If the Recording tab is displayed, Windows recognizes the drive as a recordable device.
13 Click Cancel.

Note If you have more than one CD-ROM drive, DVD-ROM drive, or CD-RW drive in the computer and the Recording tab is not displayed, an incorrect drive may have been configured as "recordable" in the Windows registry. To troubleshoot this issue, follow these steps:
1 Follow steps 1 through 9 to edit the Drive Type value of the Volume{GUID} folder whose value you previously changed.
2 In the Value data box, type 3, and then click OK.
The drive type value of 3 indicates that the drive is a standard CD-ROM and is not writable.
3 In the left pane of the Registry Editor window, click the next Volume{GUID} folder.
4 Follow steps 7 and 8 to change the Value data entry to 1 or 2, depending on the drive type
5 Quit Registry Editor, and then follow steps 10 through 12 to confirm that the Recording tab is displayed in the properties dialog box of the CD-R drive or CD-RW drive

- srikanth dhanwada