I just want to put in my ten cents.
I didnt read the whole thing, so i dont know if you went to the manufacture.
But I do know that CD or any optical drives have been poorly made. I have
seen many dell machines with DVD drives that just quit! And they are out of
warenty, so they are required to just buy a new one. I have seen CD-rw
drives just not work... I don't know how many other people have seen
problems with optical drives... they just make them so cheap anymore.
I wish there was a better way, but I just recommend forking out the cash for
a new one. that is if you can afford it.

-James


"tattingbird" <tattingbird@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry if this is a long post, I want to give as much detail as possible of
> the problem I am having.
>
> I have an Acer TravelMate C303XMi Tablet PC running Windows XP Pro. It
> came
> with a Pioneer DVD-RW drive installed. When I bought it last November,
> everything worked fine. I was even able to burn a DVD data disk to backup
> my
> files. But, ever since I used the recovery disks to get my system back to
> the
> original setup, I can no longer write to DVDs.
>
> My drive will play movie DVDs, read CDs, read previously burned DVD-RWs,
> and
> burn to CDs. What I can no longer do is write to a DVD disk of any type.
>
> From the following information, it seems to me like my recovery disks have
> the wrong drivers on them (Acer says these are the only drivers they
> have -
> no upgrades). Windows only sees blank DVDs as CDs. Please take a look at
> this
> info and let me know what you think. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
> I'm pretty frustrated at the moment.
>
>
> The following is a summary of what Windows shows when I put a DVD in the
> drive:
>
> When a blank DVD-RW disk is in the drive, this information appears when
> viewing "My Computer": The icon has "DVD-R" under it but the drive is
> listed as "CD Drive (E:)"
>
> When right-clicking on the DVD drive and clicking on "Properties", this is
> what is seen under the "General" tab: Type: CD Drive, File System: RAW,
> Used space: 0 bytes, Free space: 4.38 GB
>
>
> When checking the DVD drive properties in the Device Manager, this is the
> information seen:
>
> Under "General" tab
> Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K14RA Properties
> Device type: DVD/CD-ROM drives
> Manufacturer: (Standard CD-ROM drives)
> Location: Location 0 (0)
> Device Status: This device is working properly.
>
> Under "Driver" tab
> Driver Provider: Microsoft
> Driver Date: 7/1/2001
> Driver Version: 5.1.2535.0
> Digital Signer: Microsoft Windows Publisher
>
>