CD-RW not working properly anymore

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I have a Generic CRD-BP1700P CD-RW drive and recently it started exhibiting
problems. I am running XP SP1.

1. It doesn't read/show the contents of CD-R and CD-RW disks i have burned.
2. It burns CD-R disks ok but not CD-RW.

I never used to have these problems

Explorer lists the device as a CD-RW device with the properties showing a
recording tab.

Basically it always says the device is empty or not ready when there is a
CD-RW disk in there, even when that disk has data on it. I also cannot erase
a CD-RW with data on.

It's wierd that it doesn't list the contents of any disks in explorer.

Any ideas?
 
Have you tried with another brand new RW disk?
or,you may check your CD-RW drive attaching it with another PC.
If that also show same result then it's a CD-RW drive problem.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
 
what software are you using ? xp doesn't support cdrw very well ie packet
writing etc this will need a seperate software package
 
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