Windows Media Player

[Puddintane]

Every time I try to burn music to a CD on my computer, it will not accept the blank CD or recognize it as being in the E drive. I've tried other brands, music only types and
rewiteable ones. Always the same result. It tells me to insert a blank disc and then it will start to burn.
Will some one please help,Thanks

[Ethel]

Are you sure your cd is not read only?

[Puddintane]

I've bought CD-R music CDs, CD-RW Rewriteable CDs and standard writeable CDs and none work.
Thanks anyway, Fred

[LeMarchand]

What Ethel means is that your drive may not be capable of burning discs. Try right-clicking the drive in "My Computer" and selecting "Properties". If there is a "Recording" tab, check that "Enable CD Recording on this device" is ticked.

If it is already ticked, you may need to try to upgrade your CD drives drivers and/or firmware. Does the drive record using programs other tham WMP?

[Puddintane]

All is in order in the properties of E drive. Maybe I need to upgrade. I have windows media player 11 installed. I have not tried to record other than WMP. I'm not sure how to upgrade CD drive, drivers or / forware.
Thanks you

[LeMarchand]

A couple of questions:

The CD drive is often the "D" drive (though not all the time). What is your "D" drive?

Can you play music or games or load in programs using your "E" drive?

What speed/RAM is your machine and what version of Windows are you running?

Has the drive EVER burnt CDs?

I'd try downloading another burning program (some free ones at http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/gmm/fwcdburn .html - I'm afraid that I haven't used any of them) and seeing if those will work. If not, then I would personally pop open the case and loom for loose connections before totally giving up on the drive.

[Puddintane]

My D drive is my other hard drive.Yes I can play music & load games. Video memory is 64MB - Windows XP / Pack 2 CPU 2.70GHZ Speed 2700MHZ Yes I have burnt CDs Thanks for you help

[LeMarchand]

Your machine seems well up to WMP 11, which was something I thought might be a problem. I would try one of the free programs to see if it is a problem with WMP 11. (If a different program works, then it is probably a problem with WMP). It's possible that it is a hardware fault, but I'd exhaust software conflict possibilities before shelling out for a new drive.

That said, you can pick up a CD/DVD burner for a tad over �20 these days!

[Puddintane]

I appreciate your help and will follow your suggestions
Le Marchand. Thank you