Tried to burn a cd rom on my PC tonight but it says there's no disc in the drive even when there is!!! It won't even read original discs now and can't understand what the problem is.. All the drivers are present and correct and when you click on the CDRW icon in My Computer it open the windows for it but it won't recognise any discs!!! Is there a setting I could alter anywhere or is it new CDRW time!!!??? Had the same problem a month ago but it curred itself!!! Thanks guys, Jon

I know some one who had this problem and he said it was Windows Media Player 10 which was causing it, which is possible.

 

It could be your writer is on its way out. Mine did this years ago.

This could be fairly drastic, but worth a shot, i supose.......

 

Go into Start, Control Panel, System, Hardware, Divice Manager, DVD/CD-Rom Drives, Driver..... then Uninstall. Then turn off the PC, then open her up, disconnect the power and IDE cable, re-start the PC (let it boot up properly), close it back down again, re-connect the power and IDE cables to the CD drive, then start up the PC again.

Then, depending on your system, you may need to connect to the internet to allow it to find the most up-to-date drivers, and fully re-load them for your drive. This should work, if it doean't then it's fooked!!! :D And it's new drive time.

 

HTH

 

(Bit long-winded)

Could just be the read \ write head is dirty. Have seen this and it was cleared by a squirt of compressed air...

This could be fairly drastic, but worth a shot, i supose.......

 

Go into Start, Control Panel, System, Hardware, Divice Manager, DVD/CD-Rom Drives, Driver..... then Uninstall. Then turn off the PC, then open her up, disconnect the power and IDE cable, re-start the PC (let it boot up properly), close it back down again, re-connect the power and IDE cables to the CD drive, then start up the PC again.

Then, depending on your system, you may need to connect to the internet to allow it to find the most up-to-date drivers, and fully re-load them for your drive. This should work, if it doean't then it's fooked!!! :D And it's new drive time.

 

HTH

 

(Bit long-winded)

 

Cheers mate, but tried this one already!!! I guess it's gonna have to be a buy a new drive time as i've also tried a cd lens cleaner in there and it still doesn't wanna work!!! Done a windows update too but it says it's running the most up to date driver!!! Thanks anyway everyone!!!! ;)

try removing any packet writing software such as the windows update for HighMAT extension..

 

That one always causes problems with my Sony DVD-RW.

 

J