CDRW drive no longer recognizes disks

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I installed a DVD writer about 3 weeks ago.  It had its HP -rleated burning utilities.  I also bought Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD (free after rebate).  It has a program called Instant Write that creates a virtual drive.  All of that seemed to be working fine.  My Samsung CDRW was being recognized and I was able to read and write to that drive just fine.  Then,  sometime after that,  my CDRW no longer reads the disks that are placed in it.  The DVDRW still reads and writes fine.  Windows shows that the drive is there,  but it does not recognize a CDROM I place in it. 



I have a program called HP-DLA installed (it’s in the uninstall list) and I have a program called Daemon Tools that enables a DVD image to be mounted by the system and used as a drive,  so my Power-DVD (part of the Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD package). 


My E drive,  which is the samsung cdrw drive (as identified in MyComputer when I right click on  CD-RW (E:) drive and select the Settings Tab),  says it is using the INstantWriteDriver.   There is also a tab called DLA,  which shows the following:


Label: No Media (there is a CDROM with information on it in the drive)
Type: Samsung CD-R/RW SW 212B
Drag and Drop recording option selected.


I am uncertain which ,  if any ,  of these things have caused my problem.  Device Status junder properties says “the device is working properly”.  Any clues?

3 Replies to “CDRW drive no longer recognizes disks”

  1. carlito

    dude,,
    Have you figured out what happenned????
    It seams My sony cd/rw suddenly cant read a few of my earliest burned discs,, I also noticed that on some store bought audio cd’s I’d used windows ‘cd player’ to modify the track names, THEY will no longer play,, any others work fine…
    So I think it could be beyond the hardware and into how windows interacts with what kind of data is stored…
    any suggestions???
    Thanks for letting me google into this, I dont feel like I am going mad anymore

    Cap, cap106@aol.YAdda,Yadda,yadda….

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  3. Warren

    Hello,

    Did you get anywhere with this? I also have PowerDVD, and have recently loaded DVD burning software. My problem is very similar. If I put in a copied DVD-R, my drive will recognize it in both Windows XP Pro and PowerDVD, but not a music or data CD-Rom, or a DVD-R data disc. It says there is no disc loaded. Please let me know if you have solved this little puzzle!

    Thanks,

    Warren

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