Help- DVD writer sees DVDs but not CDs

[DrSardonica]

My Pioneer DVD-RW 106D shows, burns and plays all kinds of DVDs but some
where or another it stopped recognizing CDs.

When I put one it, using a variety of programs or Explorer, it says "no
Disc".

It worked ok for a while.

Things I tried...uninstalling Nero, and the device, rebooting, reinstalling.

Any Ideas?

 

[wojo]

I have one possibility for you
Did you install Nero's InCD? If you did get rid of it. It's crap and caused
basically the same problem on my PC.

 

[Tumbleweed]

Failing that, the laser that writes to CD may have failed (DVD and CD use
different lasers)

 

[George]

Have you looked at the Properties of the drive (Right
click on its icon) and seen if the 'enable CD recording'
box on the Recording TAB is checked?

 

[DennisLazo.com]

try to use a cd/dvd cleaner on your dvd rom drive. it's possible that the
lenses may have been dirty.