HELP - vista says no disc in dvd-rw

[Guest]

I'm trying to burn a CD with Vista Ultimate. When I put a blank CD (TDK
700MB) in my DVD-RW drive, the drive makes some noises for about 30 seconds
and tells me there is no disc in there. The drive worked fine before I
upgraded to Vista and it works fine reading discs, but doesn't seem to
recognize a blank disc when it sees one. please help!!!

 

[Guest]

Have you updated the drivers for the DVD burner? What software are you using
to burn with? Have you checked the control panel to see if there is a
conflict?

 

[canixs]

Ron,

Window Vista Ultimate came with DVD burner software which is called DVD
maker.

 

[Guest]

I went through the steps of updating the driver, but Windows tells me it
already has the latest driver (windows cdrom.sys, version 6.0.6000.16386)
that I should need. It concerns me that it's just CDrom.sys, with no talk of
RW in the title.

Also, my drive is a LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-1635S ATA Device, if that helps.

I'm trying any software I can, from Windows to Media Player. I don't even
get prompted for anything when I put the blank disk in (where I would expect
some sort of autorun menu to give me options for a blank disk). If I go to
"Format", it tells me there is no disk in Drive E:.

 

[LaRoux]

I've seen this several times and it's usually the firmware for the drive.
Try either the PC manufacturer if it came as part of a system or the drive
manufacturer otherwise.