CD Creator does not recognize drive - Nero says I am using unwritable medium(CD-Rs)

[phreakyzen]

have two CD-RW drives on my XP machine and for some reason the second one is not recognized as a CD-RW by Windows or CD Creator. Nero says that yes it is a CD-RW but everytime I try and burn the drive pops out the blank CD-R and Nero says "Unwritable medium please use a blank CD-R" this happens with many different types of CD-Rs. All of the drives work because I actually have three CD-RWs on two XP machines and I have tried a few different configs but two on one machine does not seem to work. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Oh the drives are:

Yamaha 8x4x24 SCSI
Lite-On 24x10x40 IDE
Iomega(Plextor) 16x10x40 IDE

 

[CSFM]

Ahhh... I have had this problem also!

I built a computer for a friend late last year and instead of the DVD player being the CDRom, the CDR/RW became the CDRom... and Nero wouldn't recognise the DVD player as the source drive to burn from, but knew that both of the drives where there!!!?!!!

What I found out was after I had the machine working beautifully for him he decided to format the HDD and reinstall Win98SE. He installed the disk through the CDR/RW instead of the DVD player, thus making the CDR/RW the default CDRom in Windows. What I did was remove the CDR/RW and removed Win98SE from his machine al together and installed Win2000 on there instead. Installing it through the DVD player and after it had all got going nicley I installed the CDR/RW again and it worked fine. Both of these drives are IDE drives... and I guess who ever wrote the software (be it MS's fault or Nero's programers) wasn't thinking about it very hard. Therefore it strengthens my case that SCSI writers are better still... but that is just my opinion... and I do love SCSI to death.... so get what you like!

 

[Willoughbyva]

What operating system are you using? You may try going into device manager and deleting both drives and letting windows find them again. You could also try deleting the controller they are on. I don't know how they are installed on your system, but if you have them installed on a raid controller then you will probably never get them to work right.

Just some ideas.

Will

 

[phreakyzen]

I am running XP the first drive is the SCSI it was originally the CD-RW for this computer. The Second drive is going on an add-on PCI IDE contoller because the 4 on the MB are full. If it would help I could swap a HDD on the MB contoller for the CD-RW on the PCI IDE. I also tried deleting the drive in device manager but no luck there. One thing that is strange though is that the device manager says that the drive(2nd) is SCSI when it is not. Thanks