DVD CDRW problems

[[TCS]BlackMamba 0]

A mate of mine is having a few problems with his DVD CDRW combi drive. It only reads copied cd's. Any proper cds or software installation discs it jus thinks theres nothing in the drive. The code it brings up for this drive in hardware properties is; HL-DT-ST RW /DVD GCC 4120B. Hope this helps.

[CR6 0]

There's a good chance that his drive is toast.

I just had the opposite happen to me: my Lite On DVDRW drive can only read DVDs, but not CDs.

I just added a 2nd CDRW/DVDROM which are pretty cheap these days to read/burn CDs.

[firefly2442 0]

The other thing you could try is see if there is an upgrade for the firmware. Just a suggestion. Hope you get it working.