Optical Drive problem

[Ken]

The other day I was ripping CD's - I had just ripped 3 cd's without a
problem and inserted the 4th - when suddenly windows XPPro reported that
there was no media in the drive.(Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-352F)
Windows reports that the drive is working properly and I have the latest
driver. I have cleaned the heads. Everything seems to be OK except that
the presence of a CD in the drive is not detected.
Is my drive dead despite what XP tells me?
Ken

 

[Guest]

No, reboot and try again.

 

[Ken]

No, reboot and try again.

Rebooting does not help I've rebooted many times since the problem started.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Have you tried the other CDs that worked before (not the CD the caused the
error?)

 

[Ken]

Have you tried the other CDs that worked before (not the CD the caused the
error?)

Yes, I've tried many CD's that had previously worked.