For some reason, the smartburn media tool is not detecting my liteon 52246s drive. Does anyone know why this might happen?
TIA 
Improper ASPI installation would cause this. If you’re using Windows 2000/XP, then use Killaspi.bat to remove your ASPI drivers. Otherwise try a different version.
It is installed properly, and I though that 4.6 was the most stable aspi driver version there was.
Update: I just found out that nero cd speed and k-probe don’t work either, even though all of the numbers on the aspi layers are the same (4.6). The strange thing is that these programs all worked about 2 weeks ago.
No need to use KillASPI, InstASPI would be just fine.
Oh btw, regarding detection, is there any virtual drive installed ? CCD or Alcohol ?
I have both clonecd and alcohol installed. But in both of them, the hide atip is disabled.