I have a DVD writer and CD writer used to work fully for at least 3 years. Now though, all of a sudden it won't read blank discs properly. This is what it exactly does; I insert the disc into the tray, put it in. I go to my computer, check the properties of my disc in the drive, it says it contains 0 bytes of space. It happens to both my CDs and DVDs. It is nothing to do with the discs as they used to work fine but one day all of a sudden stopped being read as storage. Please help. Thanks.

If its a blank CD or DVD ,what do you expect it to say except zero bytes ,since nothing has been copied to it yet. Sorry Iam a little confused by your ? Is this a trick question ? Just Curious , Nick "I rather be hated for who Iam then loved for who Iam not" Author Unkown

Blank is blank...there's nothing to read. Zero bytes of information. You can't read what's not there. I don't understand the question either. "If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction

Are you possibly confusing CDR with CDRW? That is, you can put a CDRW disk into the drive and, if you have it formatted and software set up for it, the disk will appear as a 700MB drive available for copying files to. But, a blank CDR is 0 bytes until you write or "burn" files onto it. Now, most CD burning software, like Nero, will show the capacity or space available of a blank CDR when your preparing to create a new CD, but file managers and My Computer show them as 0 bytes. Same for DVDs, only much bigger.

i have same problem 0 bytes of used space and 0 bytes of FREE SPACE i'm not confused by your question but have no idea

Okay I didn't know that it will always read like that, just that burning discs hasn't worked so I thought that was the problem when I saw it. Anway, Nero is also reading my discs as blank all of a sudden and it will not write to it and says that there is not enough memory and that I should insert a new disc. It's not to do with disc space it is sufficient. I've even tried to write 5 minute videos onto the dvds with no sucess