Hi All of a sudden the other day, my cd-rw wouldn't recognize blank cds. It recognizes ones that have stuff on it, but when I put a blank cd in it (I've tried different types of blank cdr), it tells me there is no media in the drive. I unloaded, reinstalled cdrom and the Ide's (and now under cdrom in system it just says cdrom drive rather than Philips) I had problems reloading the ide's as windows couldn't find anything and gave me errors in the devices it loaded. I am running windows me on a compaq with a Philips (cdd4801), I've checked for viruses, adware, cleaned out my computer, looked all over the net for hints... I just want to get my cdrom writer back so that I can back up my files, wipe and reinstall... Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks in advance Ness

Hi Ness I had a look round for your problem and CLICK HERE for what I found But it doesnt to good for your problem if this is anything to go by hth andy If all else fails, panic

Great Thank you very much for replying! I didn't find that one during my search... The weird thing is that this and when it started is reminiscent of the C-dilla virus that corporations (like turbo tax and a few others I read) put on their software to prevent copies http://www.privacyandspying.com/privacy-c_dilla.html. Supposedly if you have it and you remove it incorrectly it can cause issues. I didn't find it on my drive but then again I could've removed it with spyware or virus removers after I downloaded trials of alcohol and cd clone (which didn't work on my puter). I've had similar with Norton's and my modem 3 or so times. The only fix I could find is to uninstall Nortons, wipe and reinstall. Foolishly I have Norton Firewall and am wondering if it's the same but doing this to my cdrom instead. From other things I've seen on the web and one technical support from a computer place, it is software, but it may be just that I should take my first idea and buy a second drive and pray it works and doesn't encounter the same issue..... Thanks again, Ness