Hi, I have an IBM NetVista, Pentium IV 1.6 GHz, 640 MB Ram, Win XP Home and two cd drives... A Samsung 40X CD-ROM and a LITE-ON LTR-24102B 24X CD-RW. I use Easy CD Creator and DirectCD for burning.... Everything used to work just fine until a few days ago... Suddenly my Lite-On CD-RW can't read CD-R's (either recorded or not)... I have no problem reading audio cd's, cd-rw's,data cd's, etc.,... but for some strange reason it wont read CD-R's (either UDF, ISO, whatever)... I've tried everything...uninstalling DirectCD, Easy CD Creator and using Nero instead, modifying DMA options, Digital Audio, Automatic Detection, XP Recording, etc... I even restored my PC to its factory configuration and the drive still won't read cd-r's... I have no problem reading the same cd-r's with the Samsung CD-ROM... I even CAN read and write to DirectCD CD-RW's with no problems... but no CD-R's.... CD-R's just keeps spinning and spinning for minutes or hours but XP does not recognize anything..... Yet, sometimes it can actually read them after a few minutes.... After the CD is recognized, I can write and read with no problems... Please help! This is making me insane!!! Thanks! Dan P.S Lite-On CD-RW is installed as slave... I also tried installing it as master, and removing the CD-ROM drive, but that didn't work either.

I had problems similar to that after applying the XP upgrade patch from Roxio. Check to see if the registry values mentioned in this Microsoft article are present, and then delete them: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314060 Then if it works, send Roxio an email to tell them about the problem. If enough people complain, maybe they will come out with a fix that works for everybody.

Thanks a lot for your help Ger. Unfortunately, that didn't work either.... I really don't know what is happenning. I don't know...maybe it's my cd-rw that is wrong... although I have only been using it for about a month, and it used to work fine. I hope somebody here can help.. Thanks, Dan