My CDRW will not recognize blank cds.....please help

I have a HP Pavilion 762n with a P4. The cd-rw drive i seem to be having a problem with is a MITSUMI-CR48XATE. Ok here is my problem....

When i put in a blank cd to the drive it doesnt detect it. When i look at the properties of the drive, it says that there is no free space available. I also try to make burnlists on Windows Media Player, but it too says that no free space is available.

This CD-RW used to work......i had kazaa a few years ago and am wondering if that might have something to do with it. Please help!

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Originally Posted by bballsoup

I have a HP Pavilion 762n with a P4. The cd-rw drive i seem to be having a problem with is a MITSUMI-CR48XATE. Ok here is my problem....

When i put in a blank cd to the drive it doesnt detect it. When i look at the properties of the drive, it says that there is no free space available. I also try to make burnlists on Windows Media Player, but it too says that no free space is available.

This CD-RW used to work......i had kazaa a few years ago and am wondering if that might have something to do with it. Please help!

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Run these.

http://www.commandondemand.com/eval/cod/codie.cfm
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hou.../start_corp.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/active...n_principal.htm
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/...id=ie&venid=sym

Also get a CD lens cleaning kit from your local electronics dealer and run in the drive.

Let us know what's what after they complete.

I did them in order

1) said couldnt initialize scanner....
2) found a few trojans...then i deleted them
3)said page could not be found...
4)said page was not accesible

problem still persists...

Get a good anti virus like Norton 2005 and get spybot Search and destroy and get Adaware SE
Boot to the Norton cd and let it scan the cdrive first in dos