Yesterday, I was in the middle of burning a disc, and the
CDRW quit working. Now on boot, it reads during boot up,
and XP reads the CDRW drive, but any disc inserted gives
the error message "Please insert a disc into drive...".
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers,
rebooted several times, checked the hardware settings in
device manager, all indications are good. Just won't read
a disc, burned or otherwise. Any ideas before I take it
out and install a new one?

try putting a known good disc in the drive and reboot the system. i have not seen a fix for this for cd-rw or dvd-r drives, since I have seen it happen on both...and had both re-activate by the above procedure.

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:26:20 -0800, "Shteve" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Yesterday, I was in the middle of burning a disc, and the
>CDRW quit working. Now on boot, it reads during boot up,
>and XP reads the CDRW drive, but any disc inserted gives
>the error message "Please insert a disc into drive...".
>I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers,
>rebooted several times, checked the hardware settings in
>device manager, all indications are good. Just won't read
>a disc, burned or otherwise. Any ideas before I take it
>out and install a new one?

Sounds like its given up the ghost. Get a new one....

Peter Hutchison
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