My CD Burner dosent work anymore. It hasnt worked for a while so I bought an
external burner & now its stopped working too. I dont know if my computer is
somehow messing up the drives. When I look at the properties, it says the
drives (both E & F ) are working properly but neither will recognize a cd &
I've already tried uninstalling & windows automatically reinstalled them for
me. HELP ME PLEASE b4 I spend more on another burner.

"mluv21" <mluv21@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My CD Burner dosent work anymore. It hasnt worked for a while so I bought
> an
> external burner & now its stopped working too. I dont know if my computer
> is
> somehow messing up the drives. When I look at the properties, it says the
> drives (both E & F ) are working properly but neither will recognize a cd
> &
> I've already tried uninstalling & windows automatically reinstalled them
> for
> me. HELP ME PLEASE b4 I spend more on another burner.

You don't say how old each burner is, but I assume they are out of warranty
(otherwise you'ld take them back). Unfortunately the laser in these devices
has a finite life (it's a fact of solid state lasers). That life can vary
consideably between examples, but can easily be less than a couple of years.
Laser deterioration is the single most common failure mode of CD and DVD
drives - the burners being worse because the lasers operate at a much higher
power density.

DVD/CD burners are not exactly expensive these days.

On Apr 11, 4:35*am, "M.I.5¾" <no....@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
> "mluv21" <mlu...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>
> news:A9069F4E-5395-460D-B5A1-4A317E7A1D65@microsoft.com...
>
> > My CD Burner dosent work anymore. It hasnt worked for a while so I bought
> > an
> > external burner & now its stopped working too. I dont know if my computer
> > is
> > somehow messing up the drives. When I look at the properties, it says the
> > drives (both E & F ) are working properly but neither will recognize a cd
> > &
> > I've already tried uninstalling & windows automatically reinstalled them
> > for
> > me. HELP ME PLEASE b4 I spend more on another burner.
>
> You don't say how old each burner is, but I assume they are out of warranty
> (otherwise you'ld take them back). *Unfortunately the laser in these devices
> has a finite life (it's a fact of solid state lasers). *That life can vary
> consideably between examples, but can easily be less than a couple of years.
> Laser deterioration is the single most common failure mode of CD and DVD
> drives - the burners being worse because the lasers operate at a much higher
> power density.
>
> DVD/CD burners are not exactly expensive these days.

The first thing that should normally be checked is that the
"Recording" options (Right Click on the drive icon in My Computer) are
set to let Desktop Recording.