DVD icon changes to Cd icon when a blank DVD disk inserted

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I have recently purchased a Lite-on LDW-401s DVD burner, when I place a blank DVD into the drive the drive icon changes from DVD/RW to CD: When going into properties 0 bytes of free space and 0 bytes of used space is available. I have tried both DVD +R and DVD-R disks and the problem is the same. I have reinstalled the drivers that came with the unit, upgraded my bios and downloaded the latest firmware (I think?). I have a Celeron 800 and am using Windows XP.
Can anybody please help?

Ok, I had the same problem after doing a Windows XP update. My DVD drive would change and say cd drive when I put a blank disk in. After a couple hours searching the net I came up with setting the Secondary IDE Channel from DMA to PIO. Go to control panel/system/hardware/device manager/IDE-ATA/ADAPTI Controllers /Secondary IDE Channel. Right click on Secondary IDE Channel then Properties.

This worked and I could burn a blank disk. The problem is the newly burned DVD would play in my Computer, but not in my stand alone tv unit. I am using the same programs and pack of blank DVD's that worked last week!! After spending 4 or more hours searching the net and seeing that lot's of people are starting to have this problem I believe the problem is with one of the windows updates.

I did a rollback to before I ran the last batch of windows updates (about a week ago). This still did not fix the playing DVD's on my TV unit problem.

I noticed that some of the Updates and Hotfixes didn't disappear with the roll back! I started uninstalling the latest few updates with the add/remove programs list. There was one I was suspious of, Windows XP Hotfix (SP2) [See KB810243 for more information]. I am not sure if this was the problem, but since I removed about 5 of the last updates my burner works fine and I can play the newly burned DVD's in my TV unit! And I went back to check the DMA / PIO setting and it had reverted back to the DMA setting and still recognizes my blank DVD's!