Optical drive help - New (used) drive isn't recognised.

Anyone? Anyone?

Shit. Good call.

I never checked the lettering above the pins, just switched the jumper to the far left spot.....

If that's not the problem do you have any other ideas?


Thanks.

Now this drive will recognise disks, both blank and pre bought, but will still not write to a blank disk.

Bizarre, both disks and Drive work fine away from this PC.

It's set at CS, i took the other drive out the eqaution altogether this time, and when i switched back on the PC brought up the "New Hardware recognised" bubble in the toolbar for the drive i put in.

Whatever i do i still get the same "Cannot complete CD wring wizard" with the error.

"There was an error in the writing process, the disk you attempted to write may no longer be useable"

The disks are fine as is the drive, i don't get it?

I really need a solution tonight as my GPU is coming tommorow and my build is finished, but it won't have net access as i don't have a install disc or Vista drivers. I need this POS PC to at least copy drivers and such to install on my new gaming rig.

Thanks for your efforts man.

:?

Cheers guys, tracked it down to a software problem in the end, Roxio was stuffed, just downloaded a free to use DC/DVD burner that worked immediatly.

Another problem solved!!!