Did you check the properites in File Explorer?

Right click on the drive (with no disc in it BTW) and select properties.

Then check the options under the recording tab.

There is an issue with XP and some drives that lose their recording
abilities. I remember something in the MS XP faqs about that.

- Tim -




In article 34c4b2a2-e091-4bf5-a47f-72dd450e4102
@k17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com, says...
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