CD RW wont work

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I have a dell 4500 desktop/win XP. My CD RW will go thru
all the motions of writng to a blank CD-R but when it is
complete the target CD-R is blank as if I had done
nothing.
The CD-RW has worked numerous times in the past, but I
dont write near as many CD's as I used to.
I have tried using the device manager to update/uninstall
but I cannot complete the hardware or driver wizards
because winXP says it cannot complete.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Mike

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev (More info?)

Since you have a Dell, have you tried the Dell Community
forum newsgroups? I like the Microsoft Newsgroups but the
Dell forums may be especially beneficial for Dell
owners.

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums


>-----Original Message-----
>I have a dell 4500 desktop/win XP. My CD RW will go thru
>all the motions of writng to a blank CD-R but when it is
>complete the target CD-R is blank as if I had done
>nothing.
>The CD-RW has worked numerous times in the past, but I
>dont write near as many CD's as I used to.
>I have tried using the device manager to
update/uninstall
>but I cannot complete the hardware or driver wizards
>because winXP says it cannot complete.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Mike
>.
>