Good evening all!
I was preparing some music files for my Flash lectures in the tomorrow morning.
But the problem was that when I inserted a blank new CDR into my PC's DVD-RW rom and pressed to start the burning process, the XP system just kept saying the rom didn't have any writtable media inside.
I used the XP built-in CD burning function, because it saved the system resources;
I was stuck at the problem until I tried Nero 6 instead, and the problem got SOLVED completely then.

Why the XP built-in CD burning function couldn't recognize any blank new CDR is still a mystery to me!
Please kindly help?

P.S. I am using XP SP2 Pro.A solution which worked recently on a computer I was INVOLVED with - this one (XP) lost it's optical drives, not quite the same problem I know, but worth a shot ....

In Device Manager remove the secondary IDE controller, reboot and let Windows find it again. Worked a treat on the above m/c where other solutions failed. I am assuming here that your dvd/cd player is attached to the secondary IDE controller and not the primary. You can check this inside the case - if the dvd/cd player is not on the same ribbon cable as the hard drive, it's on the secondary controller.

Gluck Tony In XP there is an obscure switch for BURNERS that has to be enabled...i believe it's thru Control Panel/System?Hardware/Device Manager...right clik the drive and check "allow burn functions for this device" or something silly like that.
I don't use XP's built in burn FEATURES and PROBABLY never will.