why is my cd burner saying there is no cd in the drive ONLY when i go to burn something?
969842
Only thing I know is it may be a bad cd-r disk. I've had that problem. If you've tried multiple disks, I don't known what to tell you. Hope this helps!
911433
Good day. Whew! lol Yeah if u keep burning and burning yeah the device may die especially if u are burning Cds to fast. How long u had the cd burner? if a long time, then it died most likely. Happens a lot u wudnt believe. Get a new one. Its cheap & simple to replace. Laterz
858032
Your CD burner probably came with software of it's own.  It may have come with Nero or Roxio or Sonic.   Look for that CD.  Go to the Control Panel and remove that software.  Reboot the computer and insert the CD that reinstalls that Burner software.    This should fix the "burner" drivers and software that will allow you to BURN.\n\nGood luck and Happy Computing!
355124
your cd writer might be broken. try a software re-install, if that doesnt work take the drive to be tested. or start using winamp. its very good and tells you if there is something wrong wit you drive.
794137
the burner could be dead ... but go to control panel system hardware device manager ... find ur ide controller and uninstall it .. find ur cd drive IF it shows up and uninstall that to ... if its not showing up in device manager dont worry about it just uninstall the  ide... reboot and see if that fixes it ... a final thought is that some viruses will show up like that ... ive personally had that happen a couple of times over the years so make sure u run a virus scan .... the next step if you got nowhere thus far would be to try another drive out in the system or try ur drive out on another system ... then go from there
837136
To to My Computer, right click, go to Hardware, Device Manager and see if you really have a DVD/CD ROM drive.  My guess is you only have a CD drive, which will neither play nor burn DVDs.\n-MM
705280
cd-writer/dvd rom combo\nmeans you have \ncd player\ncd burner\ndvd player\nYou donat have dvd burner
595566
if running you are running XP select a file by right clicking on it and go to send to, select the CD/DVD Drive if it is in the list, it will be if it's a burner, at that stage the file is sent to dvd if you have a blank disk or re-writable disk in the drive.\n\nif not in the send to list then it is not a burner,
559345
If the drive is old, it could be that it is broken.  A different laser is used for CDs and DVDs, so this is an indicator that the drive could be broken.  To double check, insert a computer CD (not dvd).  If this is read, you have a software configuration problem.  If it is not read, I think you have a dodgy cd/dvd drive
737965
Driver not there - it's not loaded properly - restart the computer\n\nMalfunction - yes you drive is too old to do the work - replace the drive\n\nCommunication problem - data or power cable is loose - open the case and press the 2 ends firmly together\n\nBad files - that happened when you burnt your disc - you have to be sure you have the back-up files to burn another one/or the format of your disc is not readable by your CD-ROM drive - some brands are more powerful to read more formats than the others\n\nHardware not connected??? Did you map your drive properly?\n\nYou should read this first (don't worry, it CAN be fixed easily)\n\nhttp://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/cd/recogDriver-c.html\nhttp://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/l0604/77l04/77l04.asp&guid=\n\n... and if you still have a problem just go to microsoft.com and do a search like "CD-ROM issue" "unreadable CDs"
253782
leave it plugged in and run a full system scan with Fdisk (scandisk). you should be able to pick just that flash drive, but you should check all drives. check automatically fix errors then reboot.. You've probably got a currupt driver or missing dll.
25785
Hard to diagnose the problem with just that info.\n\nFirst, are you installing software from a floppy disk or a CD Rom?\n\nIf it's a CD, perhaps the CD drive in your PC does not have the drive letter d:\n\nOr if you have > 1 CD / DVD drive, perhaps you're using the wrong one in terms of one that's labled d:.  In my system, for example, I have d:, e:, and f: CD/DVD drives.\n\nIf it's a floppy, it's most likely a: or b:, not d:
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Try using a lense cleaner. I had an HP cd-rw drive that did the same crap. It would never recognize a bured cd. Well, turns out, this particular CD Burner was made for HP by Samsung. I did a firmware and driver update, that helped alot. But I noticed that if the drive wasn't cleaned freaquently, it would not read burned cd's, or recognise blank ones. So first things, first, try just cleaning it.\n\nIf that doesn't fix it, I highly recomend replacing it!\nI've never had that great of luck with Samsung drives of any kind in a computer. \n\nI highly recomend drives made by LiteOn. They make a fantastic drives and they're very afordable.\n\nIf You want slightly better performance however, Toshiba makes a realy good drive as well. I highly recomend one of their DVD multi drives!\n\nFinaly, Pioneer! A little pricey, but not too bad. I've had a couple of their DVD rom drives. One thing I can say about the Pioneer drives is that they do much better with dirty and scratched Optical disks than most drives I've used. I don't know what their DVD burners cost now adays, but a strait up DVD-Rom shouldn't be more than 30 bucks!
151508
try using a different “working” CD/DVD to make sure that the problem is not with your CD/DVD
737072
are you putting it in the CD burner? x
659551
a DVD burner will burn both cd and dvd, if you bought one and it doesnt, take it back, its deffective.
677044
you have to have a cd drive with a burner to burn a cd