My CD Rom won't read nor WRITE info to a cd ; tells me I have to insert cd. My a drive will not work either, tells me same thing. I'm USING the following: (Win XP)


[ SONY CD-RW CRX216E ]

Optical Drive Properties:
Device Description SONY CD-RW CRX216E
Manufacturer Sony
Device Type CD-RW

Writing Speeds:
CD-R 48x
CD-RW 32x

Reading Speeds:
CD-ROM 48x

Device Manufacturer:
Company Name Sony Electronics Inc.
[ Floppy disk drive ]

Device Properties:
Driver Description Floppy disk drive
Driver Date 7/1/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2600.0
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File flpydisk.inf

[ ST380011A ]

Device Properties:
Driver Description ST380011A
Driver Date 7/1/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2535.0
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File disk.inf

Disk Device Physical Info:
Manufacturer Seagate
Hard Disk Name Barracuda 7200.7 80011
Form Factor 3.5"
Formatted Capacity 80 GB
Disks 1
Recording Surfaces 2
Physical Dimensions 146.56 x 101.85 x 26.1 mm
Max. Weight 544 g
Average Rotational Latency 4.16 ms
Rotational Speed 7200 RPM
Max. Internal Data Rate 683 Mbit/s
Average Seek 8.5 ms
Interface Ultra-ATA/100
Buffer-to-Host Data Rate 100 MB/s
Buffer Size 2 MB
Spin-Up Time 10 sec

Device Manufacturer:
Company Name Seagate Technology LLC
Ok you could try this method

Step 1: Start Registry Editor
Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Registry Editor starts.

Step 2: Delete the UpperFilters registry entry
1.In Registry Editor, expand My Computer, and then expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
2.Expand SYSTEM, and then expand CurrentControlSet.
3.Expand Control, and then expand Class.
4.Under Class, click {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
5.In the RIGHT pane (topic area), click UpperFilters.

Note An UpperFilters.bak registry entry may also appear. To delete the UpperFilters registry entry, you must click UpperFilters and not UpperFilters.bak.
6.On the Edit menu, click Delete.
7.When you receive the following message, click Yes to CONFIRM the deletion of the UpperFilters registry entry:
Are you sure you want to delete this value?

Step 3: Delete the LowerFilters registry entry
1.In Registry Editor, expand My Computer, and then expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
2.Expand SYSTEM, and then expand CurrentControlSet.
3.Expand Control, and then expand Class.
4.Under Class, click {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
5.In the right pane (topic area), click LowerFilters.

Note An LowerFilters.bak registry entry may also appear. To delete the LowerFilters registry entry, you must click LowerFilters and not LowerFilters.bak.
6.On the Edit menu, click Delete.
7.When you receive the following message, click Yes to confirm the deletion of the LowerFilters registry entry:
Are you sure you want to delete this value?
The LowerFilters registry entry is removed from the {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} registry subkey.
8.Exit Registry Editor.

Its from the mircosoft site but i think it would of been easier posting it here...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/EN-US/

Goodluck If that doesn't work the drive may be bad...to test this swap it into another working machine...same SYMPTOMS the drive needs to be replaced.