Blank CD not recognized

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Luis

Now and then my system would not recognized that a blank
CD had been inserted into my CDROM preventing me from
burning. Just a couple of days ago it stop recognizing
blank CDs period. I am unable to burn anything. Any ideas?!
 
/Luis/ said:
Now and then my system would not recognized that a blank
CD had been inserted into my CDROM preventing me from
burning. Just a couple of days ago it stop recognizing
blank CDs period. I am unable to burn anything. Any ideas?!
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Right-click on the drive letter in Windows Explorer and choose
PROPERTIES|RECORDING tab. Is recording enabled?
 
Computers rarely stop working by themselves. Ask what changed in the last
few days. Added/Removed/Modified software/hardware?

I once "lost' the ability to see blank recordable CD media after installing
a virtual CD drive. I would have thought that the virtual CD reader would
be like a physical CD reader in that it could co-exist with my CD writing
software and hardware. I was wrong. The solution was to use the XP device
manager to "disable" the virtual CD drive, reboot, then I could write CDs.

If the above does not apply to your PC, think about un-installing, then
re-installing your CD writing software. And, be sure that you do not have
more than one CD writing software installed. They rarely work well
together.
 
I had the same problem and Dev's reply fixed it. I don't know how this
happened but recording was not enabled.

Thanks for the info.
 
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