CD-RW Drive not working

[Bob I]

Is this true for both Manufactured and recorded cds? have you installed
any 3rd party software for burning or ripping CD's, or perhaps one of
the famous SONY music cds?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for helping but it just started working today. I don't know why.

 

[Bob I]

Glad to hear it, symptoms are somewhat puzzling.

Thanks for helping but it just started working today. I don't know why.

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[Guest]

I have the same problem.

I place a CD in my CD R/RW drive and it:
1. Spins around
2. Shows the CD icon on the mouse
3. Doesn't do anything, no autorun or anything like that.

I go into My Computer, and it shows that there is a Drive there, (D, but
instead of the name of the cd, it just says what type of cd drive it is.
When I go into the drive, it opens up, and it looks like I'm staring into a
blank disc.
When I use Nero, or burn by opening d: and dragging things on it, it asks me
to insert a blank cd, when there is one in there, and tells me that the drive
is empty.
"Medium
(Empty) "
When I go into device manager, It shows the cd drive, and says that it's
working properly.

Downloading a new driver from the manufacturers website didn't fix the
problem, and the windows troubleshooter wasn't helpful either.

I recently recieved updates from windows XP aswell, maybe that's the problem.
The only other major program I installed for my computer was Storm Codec.

Please help!