"There is no disc in the drive.
Please insert a writable CD into drive E:\."
Believe me it's a writable CD and it is definitely in the drive. It's an imation CD-RW, says it right on the disk. XP's troubleshoot tool is useless. It's only concerned about the playback of audio CDs vs. CD-ROMs. Help please! System info below (probably more than you need but it's copied and pasted from a Word doc).
Processor #1 Intel Pentium 4 / EC108F03
Platform : Socket478 (mPGA478 Socket)
Vendor String : Genuine Intel
CPU Type : Original OEM Processor (0)
Family : 15 (0)
Model : 2 (0)
Stepping ID : 4 (-)
Brand ID : 9 (-)
APIC : 0
HT Log.CPU Cnt : ----
Name String : Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Internal Clock : 1993.53 MHz
System Bus : 398.71 MHz QDR
System Clock : 99.68 MHz
Scalable Speed : 100.00 MHz
Multiplier : 20.0
L1 I-Cache : ----
L1 D-Cache : 8K Byte
L1 T-Cache : 12K uOps
L1 Cache : ----
L2 Cache: 512K Byte
L2 Speed: 1993.53 MHz (Full)
MMX Unit: Supported
SSE Unit: Supported
SSE2 Unit: Supported
SSE3 Unit: Not Supported
MMX2 Unit: Not Supported
3DNow! Unit: Not Supported
3DNow! + Unit: Not supported
Host Bridge: 8086:1A30.03 [Intel845/845D/845MP/845MZ]
IDE Controller: 8086:244B.12 [Intel82801BA (ICH2)]
VGA Device: ATI RADEON 9600 Series
Memory Size: 1152M Byte
Memory Clock: 132.90 MHz
OS Version: Windows XP Version 5.1.2600
Service Pack 2
VGA Device: ATI RADEON 9600 Series
AGP Revision: 2.0/ Enabled
Data Rate: 1x 2x 4x/ 4x
Fast Write: Supported/ Enabled
4GB Addressing: Not Supported / Disabled
Side Band Addr.: Supported/ Enabled
Aperture Size : 64 MB
##--- Date 05/05/2006, Time 21:38:23