WMP 11 "connect a burner and restart the player"

There are a couple of tips to solve this problem:

1. First close the windows media player and do step below
   

   go to RUN>type in Services.msc>Double click IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service> Turn it on let it load
   
   

   Open windows media player
   

   P/s: If this step did not solve the issue please do second step
   

   
   

2. First close the windows media player and do step below
   

   start>control panel > system>hardware tab>device manager>
   

   click the dvd/cd-rom drives bit> uninstall the dvd driver>
   

   click the ide ata/atapi controllers thing>uninstal primary ide channel.
   

And then click scan for hardware changes to redetect the hardware again

Open windows media player again