Cannot write to CD-RW

[paopao]

This problem just showed up a few days agao. It seems the OS does not recognize my CD-RW drive as writable anymore. I can read audio and CD-ROMs in the drive. But when I try to burn a disk with the XP interface or CD Creator, it tells me there is no writable CD in my drive (when of course there is one!). Another program I tried won't let me select this drive as the destination to write to...it used to. With Windows Media layer, when I click on "Copy Files to CD" it comes back with "device not detected". Any help would be much appreciated. I'm using XP.

 

[Rav3n]

Download the latest drivers/firmware for thje drive and update windows/the drive. Make sure that the device is properly detected in your bios as well. Flash your bios while you are at it. See if that works at all...

 

[Willoughbyva]

You might want to delete it from device manager reboot and let windows find it again.

 

[TheCorm]

Also try reinstalling your Burning Software, I had an issue where nero would not detect it so I uninstalled and then reinstalled and it was there....maybe some issue with the ASPI drivers (i think...).

Corm

 

[AJPatel]

Stupid suggestion - maybe the CD you have in there is bad. There are some bad apples in the cheap stacks we like to buy. Have you tried putting another one in there?

 

[bruincal]

Or your CD writer may have failed and not be able to burn CDRW's anymore ... that's one of the many possibilities ...
This happened to one of my older CD-Writers. It can burn CD-R's fine, but fails to recognize or burn CD-RW's (I tried the drive in another computer, and same thing).