why doesnt my cd writer work anymore after installing winXP--never mind fixed it :)

[laFiera]

I had win2k professional installed and my cendyne cd writer was working f ine. I formatted my drive and installed win2k and winXP on my pc. But i noticed that my cdwriter no longer works. ON the device manager under dvd/cd drives it appears fine and so does my dvd drive(which works fine); it also appears under the bios as master and the dvd as slave which is how i have set up. Yet, it will not work anymore. Will not read cd's as a normal cdrom drive. Since i also have win2k installed, i tried it under that os and the same problem. It appears fine under device manager but doesnt read cd's. Any tips what could be wrong?

 

[spanky]

glad I could help.

 

[a200]

Sounds to me like your writer is going bad. Had the same problem with 2 Creative Labs 40x cd-rom drives. Sent the first one back for a replacement, and the replacement crapped out right after my warrantee ran out with the exact same problem. Hope yours is still under warrantee.