I just got a Sony DRU-800A DVD burner, it is an internal DVD burner. The one I had before was an external HP DVD burner, both burners are capable of the same speeds and etc, the external one is only about 7 months old, I was just finding it a pain in the butt to have to keep hooking it up and that disconecring it, plus it took up space. Anyways so here is the problem, I had a blank Sony CD-R which was 700 MB (I know 100% for sure that it had never been used) anyways I put it into the new DVD burner, and it would not read it, as far as it was concerned there was no CD, I put it into my external DVD burner, it read it fine. I tried putiing the CD in and out of the new one, it did read it once, but than I ejected than put it back in would not work. I than got a pack of new blank CD-R's the same kind, and the new DVD burner read them fine, and just for the record this new DVD burner had no trouble reading any other kinds of CD media, just that one CD. The DVD burner is capable of reading a blank CD-R I looked it up. So here is my question, assuming that there was nothing wrong with that blank CD, since the other one read it, and now the new DVD burner can read them, is it possible that this could lead to future problems, or maybe there was a reason it could not read it? Thank You, and sorry that this was so long

"since the other one read it, and now the new DVD burner can read them" I would say that you are now all set. Chock it up to a Windows glitch unless the situation persists. If I had to guess I would suggest it had something to do with something you did or had done prior to the device not being able to read it. Did you restart the PC in between the time that it could not and could read the media? HTH Bryan

I too suspect it is a windows glitch. There seems to be an intermittent windows bug that causes it to 'sometimes' detect blank CDs and DVDs as 'audio' CDs with a single 'CDA' track.