That thread talks about a situation where the drive cannot even detect the presence of a disk, because the reader is dirty and needs cleaning. But OP's post looks more like he / she expects the drive to "read" a blank new disk. That will not happen, because there is NO information on the new disk to read. It does not come "pre-formatted" like old floppy disks did. If you are using software to "burn" a new disk, it should be able to tell you that the drive unit does contain a blank disk. But you can't read anything from it until data is stored on it.