Hi
I have Windows 8 installed and if I right click on my CD/DVD drive my Recording tab is missing in Properties. Basically I can read any CD/DVD but I cannot write a CD/DVD. I have 3 CD/DVD drives on my computer. It seems that I need to change the drive type to 2 in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning\Drives
However, in windows 8 this path is not working. Do you know where should I change the registry (regedit)? I do not find the path.

My computer is a virtual machine which is managed by vmware vsphere. On the virtual machine is installed the operating system Windows 8. In fact my computer is an Oracle Sun Ray Client which display a server-hosted virtual desktop. I have virtual CPUs and virtual storage on my computer.  DVDWR device is external connecting through USB to virtual desktop (Sun Ray desktop).

Any help would be appreciated.

You should probably post your question in the VMWare forums, we mostly use Hyper-V here.   https://communities.vmware.com/welcome    

You will want to ensure your USB DVDRW drive is properly connected to the Windows 8 VM in question.

To check this you will want to use the Vmware vSphere client to connect to your Vmware ESX/ESXi host.

Next, you will want to edit the settings for your Windows 8 virtual machine and check that you have added a USB controller and then connected the USB device to the controller. This is a manual assignment. If your DVDRW drive you wish to connect is actually connected via SATA on the motherboard of the host then you will want to go through the same process to ensure the CD/DVD drive of the host has 'connected' and 'connect at power on' selected under settings.

Below is a screenshot of what you should see:

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