CD RW driving me nuts

I have XP-Pro and something is turning off the CD's write flag. It happens often enough to drive me crazy but not often enough for me to remember where to turn the thing back on (I know I should save it some where but each time I think it will be the last). The real question for the experts here is how do I find out what/why it keeps getting turned off. TIA.

 

Thanks for the reply and the answer is, sort of. I can burn CDs after I've gotten the recording tab to show up and re-enabled writing. I THINK, after I use Nero to burn CDs, it does something that turns that off again. However, that might just be coincidence.

At this point I am unable to burn using the built-in Windows burning but I think I can burn using Nero (I haven't really had the chance to try it yet). I have thus far been unable to get the silly thing back on.

 

Thanks for the reply but if that is all it was, I wouldn't be complaining. As I posted originally, the recording tab is missing. That is what I meant when I used the term "turned off ".

 

Hello gw1500se,

This may be the problem, 3rd party burner software hiding the tab:

http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=58229&highlight=roxio

Regards - Charles

 

Perhaps Nero turns off the IMAPI CD Burning service. To check this, click start>run and type services.msc. Find IMAPI COM CD Burning Service in the list and check to see if it's disabled. If so, double click on it and where it says startup type, change it to automatic. Then, either reboot or you can start it immediately by clicking the start link in the left pane in the window. Either click that link or restart the computer and then see if you can burn a cd.