Weird problem with my DVD drive

My DVD player/writer has suddenly stopped reading blank dvd's. When i put a blank dvd in my drive my DVD drive changes to CD drive when i go to my computer. When i go to a DVD burning program such as cdburnerxp it doesnt detect my DVD drive. Everything works fine when i insert a DVD with sum information on it, i can even burn stuff on it with cdburnerxp. Its just has a problem when i but in a blank disc. Ive also tried nero and that doesnt detect my DVD drive either when i place in a blank dvd.

I have the same problem. I installed the new version of CDBurnerXP. The drive manages to read a DVD, but not anything that I previously burned, it wont take a blank disk, the drive just keeps turning. I have been on CDB XP forums and lots of same probs, but no solution. I uninstalled, still the same, did system restore, still the same