I am a Mac person, DH has a PC. Why won't his computer recognize a blank CD? It sees a CD with audio on it, but it does not see a blank one. The blank CD works since I tried it in mine. Doesn't exist on his. Any ideas?
Pat
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Checked that first - it's a CD-RW. He has burned disks before. It's a Dell running XP if that makes any difference. When we highlight the drive (D) it says it's not available. Function error? Don't remember the error message.
go to start, settings, control panel, system, device manager, find the drive, right click it, select uninstall, then reboot the computer and see if it fixes it,
Have him open the software that he uses to burn CDs. Tell the program he wants to make a data disk. It should ask him to insert a blank CD. It should tell you whether or not it recognizes that a CD is present.
LittleBill wrote: go to start, settings, control panel, system, device manager, find the drive, right click it, select uninstall, then reboot the computer and see if it fixes it,
sounds like the drive doesn't know its a cdrw
Thanks Bill and Tom - Bill's way worked but the path was slightly different. Formatting as we speak.
(This is why I'm a Mac person!!)
Had a similar problem recently with my laptop. The CD/DVD drive is held in by a single screw. The lug had bent and the drive was partially out and not plugged in all the way. Straightened the lug and all is well.
The clue was that the computer did not recognize the drive and did not power up at boot up.
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