Problem with my CD R - RW Drive

I have a sony crx160e CD-RW which has worked well for over 3 years. All of a sudden it refuses to recognize CD R media, When I put the CD R media in, the light refuses to go off. Yes I tried many different disks to no avail. It will occassionally recognize & read CD R media that already has data on it. Weird? It still recognizes CD RW media but I get error messages when attempting to burn anything on the RW media. I tried to reinstall the drive & driver again to no avail. I am running Adaptec easy CD creator 4. I temporarily updated to 5 basic & again no joy. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

Devices do wear out. Over the years, I've found the $10-20 ones on sale at the office supply stores/Best Buy work just fine. They usually come with Nero. They may or may not work with Easy 4.

 

Hi Velvi,

Ray has a good point and I have not heard of that problem before.

Sony has a diagnostics program:
http://sony.storagesupport.com/cdrw/crx160ea1dwn.htm
There are also XP and 2000pro updates.

May want to reseat the cable connections to the drive in case one has worked loose.

You've tried removing the drive in device manager? I would also try removing the IDE controller.

Final "try ": remove the drive in device manager, shutdown, disconnect the cables to the drive, do a full boot to Windows, shutdown, reconnect the cables, reboot.

Matt