Hello, I know this probably should be in the "Hardware" forum, but I have a feeling it's OS-related. I've never had this problem on my laptop before, so I'm worried. See, today, when I was cleaning out my CD's and seeing where each CD belonged, I inserted a blank CD... then I put in another CD... Windows read them as blank... and I began to grow suspicious. I continued inserting different CD's, even hard-coded ones like XP's CD, and they were all read as blank. A restart fixed the problem, but after not long, it happened again... now, I'm running XP SP2 without any viruses/spyware, but the XP SP2 installation was created by nLite, and I've had many problems with this installation. I don't know where the CD problem belongs in, however - I sincerely hope it's not my CD drive itself that is going bad. Thank you for your ideas. -Andrew

I don't think there's anything wrong with the CD-ROM drive. It could be that for some reasons Windows keeps remembering your previous CD contents. Hitting F5 key to refresh the content usually cure the problem. i_XpUser

XPUser, Andy11 says he inserted a Windows XP CD which should have dispayed as it has Autorun! I suspect some Regsitry corruption might ave occurred or the CD Drive's Optics are 'dusty' or damaged:-( The following information woud help: 1. EXACT name of this Laptop Computer as displayed on its body. 2. Is the CD drive listed in My Computer? 3. What is seen when you expand + DVD/ CD-ROM drives in System Properties>Hardware>Device Manager 4. Do you have a Third party burning program like Nero or Easy CD Creator? M