Is a recorder hardware or a program?

Of course, the recorder is a hardware pull, but it must use the corresponding software driver, otherwise it can only be used as an optical drive, it is recommended that you use the official Chinese Simplified Chinese version of nero burning rom, which is very useful.

Recorders are hardware, but they require certain software, such as Nero, to burn properly. Another feature of the burner is disk reading, which does not require special software.

Of course, it's hardware, and the shape is the same as that of an optical drive, but it can write data to an empty optical disc, and at the same time, it can also read data like an optical drive.

The recorder is actually an optical drive, but it has an additional burning function, generally you buy a recorder and it has a disc with burning software, you can install this software, and it will become a read-only optical drive if you don't install it.

The recorder is a hardware that needs to be burned and supported by software.

OK. If you are unable to do so, you can check the following methods.

1. Installation problems of the recorder.

To cure the root cause, the general household recorder is mainly a built-in IDE or SCSI interface product, and there are fewer external recorders. Before you install the recorder, you need to modify one of the jumper settings of the recorder to ensure that the installed recorder can be correctly recognized by the system.

2.Check whether the power supply and IDE cable of your recorder are plugged in properly. If everything is normal, click "My Computer" "Control Panel" "System" "Device Manager" "Hard Disk Controller" under "Device Manager" to see if the device is normal.

If there is a yellow exclamation mark, then the best solution is to reinstall the system to make this device work and then install the burning software to burn the data.

If you want to know if your computer has a recorder, you can use the following methods:

Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager - *** CD-ROM to see if it is a CDROM or a recorder, CDROM is a read-only optical drive.

Optical drives, the machines used by computers to read and write the contents of optical discs, are also a common component in desktop and notebook portable computers.

Generally if you are often burning, it is best to buy more *** ROM, although the recorder can read the disc, but the laser head of the recorder is easy to age and have problems due to too many missions, adding a *** ROM can naturally reduce the burden of the recorder, and its usefulness can also check whether the engraved disc can be read normally.

Of course, if you burn a lot and read a lot, a burner will suffice.

Not necessarily. Generally, the optical drives of notebooks are basically with burning functions, and most of the cheap configurations of desktops are *** optical drives, without burning functions. Look at the outside of the optical drive to see if there are the words RW and REWRITABLE, if there is, it can be burned.

Generally, the one marked with ROM is a read-only optical drive, that is, a DVD player.

The one marked with RAM is the disc burner.