Aopen CD Writer no longer works with XP?

[raywise]

I hope someone can help with this problem. I have an Aopen 8x4x32 CD-Writer (CRW9832?) which has been working fine under WIN XP after I did an upgrade from WIN98. I had to reinstall XP (just copied over the top) a few days ago and now the CD-Writer will not work at all. Strange thing is under Device Manager it is recognised as an 8x4x32 CD Writer, but in My Computer it is listed just as a CD-Drive, even thought it has the "recording" tab present. It will not even recognise a cd in the drive. The latest version of Nero recognises the CRW9832 is there, but keeps saying there is no medium inserted. Hopefully there is a way around this, or else I'll have to delete XP and go back to Win 98, at least I know everything works under that.

Thank you for any assistance you can offer, this is driving me nuts.

Regards
Ray Wise

[rangeral]

Try a fresh format of the drive and clean install of XP instead of writing over it or put the cd in to get the repair option maybe the repair will help or blow a can of air in there to clean the lens could have some dust on it.

[raywise]

Ok, I've worked it out. The drive itself is at fault. After testing it on 2 seperate computers, it has the same result. Will not read, spin up, recocnise a cd or anything. It was manufactured in December 2000, so it has not really lasted that long, considering I've only burnt around 15 cds with it!.

[muchmark]

Before throwing out you might want to get a CDROM lense cleaner and clean the it.
I am convinced XP has a CD ROM bug which M$ won't admit if you check the help forums there are CD ROM/Writer problem galore.

[raywise]

Thats what I thought might be the problem, a dirty lens, but seeing as the drive will not spin up, or even play anything, (tested on 3 computers), I'm sure its stuffed. Its covered by 2 years warranty so I'll get the shop to have a look at it, and it will either be repaired or replaced.:)