Loss of CD burner

[Phil Rose]

I'm having rather an odd problem. Suddenly my CD burner won't allow me to
burn. I dump images into the folder, click to burn and it says there is no
disk in the drive (there is). But I can copy an audio CD with 3rd party
shareware. I also notice that auto start doesn't any more when I put in an
installation CD.

So I thought I would system restore to before when I installed the audio CD
burner shareware (a week or so ago) and see if that had somehow knocked out
the CDburner for data and I find that ALL MY RESTORE POINTS HAVE BEEN
WIPED!!! This is a tragedy!

Anyone any idea how I would go about trying to get my CD burner to see a CD
again? It seems like a software rather than a hardware issue, wouldn't you
say?

Device manager says the hardware is working properly for what that is worth
(probably not much, I'd say)

Thanks for any help anyone can offer.


Phil

 

[Guest]

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Go to this site line 23,also check out the fixes for
autorun.

 

[EmperorG]

-----Original Message-----
I'm having rather an odd problem. Suddenly my CD burner won't allow me to
burn. I dump images into the folder, click to burn and it says there is no
disk in the drive (there is). But I can copy an audio CD with 3rd party
shareware. I also notice that auto start doesn't any more when I put in an
installation CD.

So I thought I would system restore to before when I installed the audio CD
burner shareware (a week or so ago) and see if that had somehow knocked out
the CDburner for data and I find that ALL MY RESTORE POINTS HAVE BEEN
WIPED!!! This is a tragedy!

Anyone any idea how I would go about trying to get my CD burner to see a CD
again? It seems like a software rather than a hardware issue, wouldn't you
say?

Device manager says the hardware is working properly for what that is worth
(probably not much, I'd say)

Thanks for any help anyone can offer.


Phil

Goto dougknox.com and click on Win XP Fixes and download

and run the Enable CD Burning for Limited Usersand
Restore CD/DVD Drives to Windows Explorer. Also, goto
Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services and
enable and start the System Restore and Remote Procedure
Call services. You won't get any past restore points but
should start restore points from now onward.