Acer CDRW 12x8x32

Have been using the Acer 12x8x32 with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.02d for many months to make backups.

Recently when I try to do this, when I press the "Create CD" button, it ejects the CDRW and says "please insert the destination disk". It keeps repeating this every time I put the CDRW in.

It looks as if the drive is not detecting the CDRW, or thinks it is unwritable or something. I uninstalled and reinstalled Easy CD Creator with no improvement. Have tried with several different CDRW and CDR disks; all behave the same.

Anyone else encountered this? Seems like a problem with the drive. However it works fine for everything else (reading CDROMs, playing audio CDs, etc.

try cleaning the optics of the drive with a commercial cd drive cleaner.
then try nero.
if neither work, then i would say your drive has died.

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