Won't recognize blank discs

[Guest]

Does anyone have an idea why blank discs would not be recognized as being in
the drive? Using CD-R or DVD, blank media just doesn't seem to exist, the
drive either says 0 bytes used ) bytes free, or the other one says 'please
insert disc' when both should see a blank disc with loads of free space.

The drives are otherwise fine and play normally from written discs.

Thanks for your help...

 

[Guest]

Me too! Did this by any chance start happening after upgrading from XP SP1
to SP2? It happened to me, and I then was unable to write anything to a CD
from the CD-burning program because it saw my CD as not there or full or not
a writable disk (all untrue). I uninstalled SP2 and everything worked fine
again.
But then in Oct. I had to re-download SP2 since support for SP1 was ending,
and the problem started all over again.

I was given a couple of tips to try, but they didn't work. I really don't
want to have to my a new CD-RW drive, especially if that won't solve the
problem. Help, anyone???