[firish]

I have used many brands of recordable discs, and my drive does not detect them. I always insert a blank CD into it, in an attempt to burn music onto the CD, yet it doesn't register. It gives me the message "Please Insert a Writable CD into Drive E:\". I did not have this problem until a month ago.

In case you missed it, the drive is a Sony HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GWA4164B.

My comp states that the device is working properly, though clearly it's not.

[Titan8990]

What kind of software are you using to burn the CDs?

[firish]

So far I've used SONIC, Windows Media Player, and of course just the comp. The blank CD will not show up at all, I can click on MY COMPUTER, and then look at the E:\ Drive, which displays that there is nothing in my burner, which is untrue. I can put any kind of blank disc in there and it wont register.

[corrado16]

firish, on May 17 2007, 09:54 PM, said:

So far I've used SONIC, Windows Media Player, and of course just the comp. The blank CD will not show up at all, I can click on MY COMPUTER, and then look at the E:\ Drive, which displays that there is nothing in my burner, which is untrue. I can put any kind of blank disc in there and it wont register.

having the same problem

[Titan8990]

Is it able to read CDs that are already written? Is it only with blank CDs that it doesn't recognize? Are these music or data CD-R?

[firish]

It is a separate drive, and i only use it to burn cd's. So I don't know if it can detect already written cd's but im sure it can. And it can't detect music and data CD-R's.

[Titan8990]

You shouldn't assume something that is so easy to test out. Please try a already burnt CD in the drive and see if it is able to read it correctly.

[firish]

Nope, I tried having it read a burnt disc, and it gives me the same thing as a blank CD (nothing)

[proserpine]

I had a similair problem with a Sony burner that I recently bought. I found that my problem was the lack of proper software. I was trying to just use the regular windows stuff (Windows Media Player and built in burner software). I recently downloaded a new set of codecs and a new burning program and now everything works fine.

Hope that helps,

-proserpine