CD-RW will only eject CDs if told by Nero or after restart

[mooojojojo]

well the topic pretty much says it but here are a little more details.

the CD-RW is a Teac 16/12/40x. it works flawlessly except that sometimes (quite often) it locks the disc inside.
at some instances it would eject just normally, and at other it would hold the disc - pressing the eject button does nothing.
and it's not like it does it with a certain disc - one and the same disc will eject once, and the next time will get stuck.

to work around this I found 2-3 solutions:
- disable and then re-enable the device in device manager;
- use Nero and the Eject Medium option;
- restart.

this is WinXP on an intel BX mobo IDE controller.

any ideas? thanks!

 

[vetteguy]

Sounds like maybe the built-in CD burning utility in XP might think that the drive is being written to and locking it. Since you use Nero anyway, you could try disabling that and see what happens.

 

[mooojojojo]

vetteguy - thanks

when it started doing that I had the 'burning' service disabled
right now it's back to enabled, but is there anything else I should do to stop the windows burning thing? (except that service... don't recall the name)

 

[thorin]

WinXP Buring Service Name = POS

Disable WinXP Built-In CD Burning

Thorin

 

[mooojojojo]

Originally posted by: thorin
WinXP Buring Service Name = POS

Disable WinXP Built-In CD Burning

Thorin

cool, thanks. didn't know the option for the CD-RW drive.