hello everyone!

i just happen to have a problem with my cd-rw drive... it was working fine until a couple of days ago, but then it would refuse to read any CD i would put in, showing it as blank. i thought maybe the drive itself might be busted (since its almost 4 yrs old), so i bought a new one... same problem. i checked in the device manager and it says the device works properly. now i have tried to boot the comp from a cd, like explained in the sticky post, and success! it worked... but it still sees every cd as blank when loaded in windows.
the cd-rw drive is a benq cd-rw 5232x. os is win xp.

any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance.