On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:26:49 -0800 (PST), AtomicTom
wrote:

My computer has started seeing any blank disk as full. i have 2 dvd
burner and they both act the same way. I have an external usb hard
drive and it also acts thesame way.

from windows xp explore all the disk drives are properly labeled as
dvd-rw, but when Iput afresh blank dvd in the disignation changes to
cd-rom and the properties list the disk as full. this mean I cannot
write to a disk from any of my drives. I thought I may have corupted
the system so I ran my recovery software with the same results. I
even installed a new copy of XP thinking that my recovery copy that
came with the (E-machine) was corrupted. Again with the same results.

I am starting to think it may be the firmware to my disk drive
controler

Thanks


Just guessing, but driver software conflict is most likely th
eproblem. Try removing the last thing you installed (was it the USB
drive?) and see if that helps?

I find that I have, on one computer, two dvd burning programs loaded
and trying to run at the same time. I get similar results (not
exactly, but they don't work). If I shut down one program, then the
other one works OK. Try that, too.